Example sentences of "and [vb base] 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 main forum was generally placed at the central cross-roads and round it were grouped the chief buildings of the town . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | " 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | If so , then why not take it along to the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum next Tuesday and let it be admired . |
| 11 | I also wore my own garments with pride and let it be known that I would knit for others if they wished . |
| 12 | " Take Tristram along as a younker , and let it be known in the village you 're doing so . |
| 13 | He ate food that cost little and let it be known that he underwent severe penances and fasting . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Valuev foresaw this possibility and let it be known that , in so far as preliminary censorship continued to be available , it would be harsh . |
| 16 | The pressures that induce people to leave their country and seek it are varied . |
| 17 | However , if one party is to bear the costs of the other it is important to specify this in the heads and ensure it is binding on all parties . |
| 18 | Erm , and then I just thought I 'd finally conclude a bright , cos I think it , it 's like how I see myself at work , erm with showing you where our work comes from erm and basically you 've got all these arrows coming in and er sometimes you do have a sense of feeling quite bombarded with requests for work , but the main , I mean the main formal source of our work is the local government sub committee , which is erm , like Mary was referring to earlier , every department or unit in our in the Council have to formally report and get it 's work through by a Council committee , our committee is the local government sub committee and it formally sets our work programme once a year , and I our priorities , it also comes up with other things it would like us to do by the way , during the course of the year , so erm , that includes Mary as well . . |
| 19 | ( A man 's reaction about small type would have been to point to the scale and demand it be paid extra ! ) |
| 20 | But if they were to examine that bullet hole and find it was caused by the same sort of gun that killed her … ’ |
| 21 | Rapturous as the circumstances of its conception may have been , the genesis as a whole could only , in retrospect , seem an extraordinarily painful business , as he intimated to Rohde shortly after the book was out : " No one has any idea how such a book comes into being : the trouble and torment it is to keep oneself as clear as this of other ideas pressing in from all sides ; the courage needed to conceive of it and the honesty needed to carry it through ; and above all , perhaps , my tremendous task vis-à-vis Wagner , which has certainly been the cause of many heavy clouds in my heart " the task of being independent even here , of taking up an , as it were , alienated stance . " |
| 22 | Chairman , I ask that you receive erm , the petition of eight hundred and sixty four signatures requesting a pelican crossing on and ask it be referred to the environment committee , please . |
| 23 | you open the door up and have a look and see it 's pouring down with rain and you do n't like going out today |
| 24 | If you are trying to go high , get on to oxygen and check it is flowing correctly before you need it . |