Example sentences of "and [verb] it be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To flush some out it is occasionally necessary to put a copy of the authority in a sealed envelope and insist it be conveyed at once to the chief executive . |
| 2 | Unionist MP David Trimble has written to the Heritage Secretary seeking his help in persuading Channel 4 to go public and concede it was conned into broadcasting the highly controversial allegations in its Dispatches programme in 1991 . |
| 3 | Like the horn and trumpet it is furnished with valves , but has four of these instead of three in order to give a complete chromatic scale from its fundamental note . |
| 4 | The path would last for forty-odd years , and seeing it being transformed was immensely satisfying . |
| 5 | Yanto was also having second thoughts about getting into a fight over such a silly incident , and realised it was caused as much by jealousy as anything else . |
| 6 | The main forum was generally placed at the central cross-roads and round it were grouped the chief buildings of the town . |
| 7 | This general modesty about the rights and powers of human reason might not appear a very dangerous threat to natural theology , but the way in which Hume sharpened and applied it was to have a quite shattering impact . |
| 8 | The ZX Spectrum and Easy Programming attack the same problem area — what the hell do you do once you have unpacked your computer , tried to understand the manual , and realise it is written by people who seem to have forgotten that most of their readers will be neophytes ? |
| 9 | Option 3.8.0 — Force User To Accept SPR , allows users with SPR SSR CONTROLLER privilege to force an SPR on a user and prevent it being passed on further . |
| 10 | Alfred Rosmer gave an amusing but enlightening insight into Bukharin 's character and role in 1920 , and let it be recalled that he was only 32 years old in that year . |
| 11 | " And let it be said , " Harry went on , " now we 're talking straight , that Miss Jennifer here can forget all the Romish ideas she was fed on down at Roscarrock Hall and start eating Protestant pie , which she 'll find suits a Cornish stomach a sight better than all that hocus-pocus-nomminy-domminy rubbish they peddle down at Holy Joe 's . |
| 12 | Let it be supposed that according to the usual methods of borrowing and funding , the Public Debts , during the present war , should encrease to no greater degree than they did in the last war ; which was about 30 millions : And let it be supposed , according to past experience , that in ten or twelve years after a peace ; we should be plunged into a fresh war ; which might encrease the debts of the nation 30 millions more , and that afterwards we should have another breathing time of ten or twelve years , and that according to custom a third war should ensue , no less expensive than each of the former two ; these three wars will swell the national debts to the amount of 170 millions , and that in little more than fifty years . |
| 13 | If so , then why not take it along to the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum next Tuesday and let it be admired . |
| 14 | I also wore my own garments with pride and let it be known that I would knit for others if they wished . |
| 15 | " Take Tristram along as a younker , and let it be known in the village you 're doing so . |
| 16 | He ate food that cost little and let it be known that he underwent severe penances and fasting . |
| 17 | Earlier her plan had been to go down to the village a little before the gala on the pretext of shopping and finding out the times of the events and perhaps look in at the antique shop ( for Mrs Price was on the Gala committee ) and let it be known she would join the young people , but now that her mother was ill that was out of the question , she pushed it on one side , the urgent thing was to get to the chemist 's and get the stuff up to her mother . |
| 18 | Valuev foresaw this possibility and let it be known that , in so far as preliminary censorship continued to be available , it would be harsh . |
| 19 | Probably the only way to try and prevent it is to go into the schools and get people that have been through the proble , the problem theirselves to go into the schools and try and educate the kids to stay off drugs . |
| 20 | Except , as we have seen , for confident bourgeois like James Mill and Edward Miall , both those who campaigned for universal suffrage , like the Chartists in the 1830s and '40s , and those who dreaded and opposed it were agreed that it would lead to the political domination of the working class . |
| 21 | So they call out the local Jesuit priest , he takes a good sniff and says it 's haunted . |
| 22 | Pioneer Sparc cloner Opus Systems Inc , Mountain View , California , is finally calling it quits with whatever remains of its Sparc clone business and says it is retracting back to its SparcCard PC add-in boards ( UX No 343 ) . |
| 23 | The company promises to provide its corporate customers with early access to leading-edge technology and says it is solidifying relationships with the kind of partners that can provide extremely high volume manufacturing , capability and full global distribution . |
| 24 | SGS Thomson Microelectronics BV has a new 1M-bit M28F101 Flash memory device and says it is planning to sample a series of multi-megabit EPROM Flash memories this year . |
| 25 | Winix has already captured support from several computer firms and systems integrators including Tandem , Motorola , MicroAge and Science Applications International Corp ( SAIC ) , and says it is negotiating with several OEMs . |
| 26 | DG claims significant demand for its top-end 4 and 8-way Motorola 88100 servers , and says it is selling one of its CLARiiON RAID disc storage sub-systems with just about every 8-way machine that goes out the door . |
| 27 | He also describes the failsafe footrest and says it is required , then states the details of the relevant BS which calls for a full plate footrest . |
| 28 | Seymour Cray is still hopeful of bringing his crippled Cray Computer Corp safely in to land , and this week told shareholders that the pay-off will come not with the Cray-3 , but with the Cray-4 the company is developing — ‘ People who predict that things ca n't be done — I guess I do n't have time for them , ’ he told shareholders sternly — ‘ That 's the challenge that I 'm willing to accept in trying to do things that ca n't be done ’ ; the Cray-3 was launched last month , a decade after Cray started work on it , but the Cray-4 is expected to offer twice the performance at half the cost , and the company hopes to demonstrate it by year-end ; it says it has enough cash to fund operations into September and says it is working with two investment banking firms on fund-raising strategies . |
| 29 | Bristol and West claims these auctions will help to bring some action to an otherwise slow market , and says it was overwhelmed by the response from people wanting to sell in this way . |
| 30 | According to Washington , the president regrets the decision , and says it was forced on him by the intransigence of the Russians . |