Example sentences of "be [verb] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unionist concerns were still as much with traditional areas of disagreement with the Liberals as with the War ; the UBC made the running with its concern to shield British industry from the war , much as it had previously been intended to protect it through tariffs , and Stanley Baldwin first made his name through its committees . |
| 2 | Indeed , Marx argued that in most cases , because the social system is based on exploitation , people have to be consciously unaware of the basis of society if they are to continue working it . |
| 3 | Muslims and Jews want to get rid of it for religious reasons ; Americans want ( wanted ? ) to get rid of it for hygienic reasons and for the hypothetical reduced risk of penile cancer in the circumcised population ; Latins love to play with it , like to keep it , and are taught to mobilise it often ; the British would like to ignore it , not to touch it , and eventually get rid of it when it causes too much trouble . |
| 4 | There was the training manual used by the managers to deliver the workshop , plus the training they had been given to deliver it . |
| 5 | Under the influence of Quakers , Benthamites and others the savage penal code had been amended to give it a reformative , as well as a retributive , purpose . |
| 6 | I can not even press for its performance , since a conspiracy has been formed to produce it , if it must be produced , extremely badly and thus ruin it . |
| 7 | An existing module in drystone dyking has now been revised to bring it into line with current industrial practices . |
| 8 | Yeah , but she 's been caught doing it as well . |
| 9 | A moving map display made for GA aircraft by the Digital Sky division of U.S. electronics company Thermwood Inc has recently been modified to allow it to interface with the well-known Stormscope WX10A . |
| 10 | However , the dramatic reduction in processing costs which are occurring makes it likely that systems of this power will soon be more widely available . |
| 11 | Equally importantly , these code provisions are designed to make it difficult for a detained person to make unfounded allegations against the police which might otherwise appear credible . |
| 12 | Again , equally importantly , the provisions , if complied with , are designed to make it very much more difficult for a defendant to make unfounded allegations that he has been ‘ verballed ’ which appear credible . |
| 13 | Aerial spraying of the fungicide , which goes under the trade name of " Ronilan " , is now completely outlawed and farmers are forbidden to use it on any crop which is not peeled or shelled . |
| 14 | I should n't have been let touch it . ’ |
| 15 | He laughed mirthlessly , despairing of her understanding , ‘ You ca n't expect those who are evicted to see it like that . ’ |
| 16 | A staggering 17.9% of the total UK population of 7 to 10 year olds are expected to see it — and children are well known to have outstanding recall of cinema advertisements . |
| 17 | our , our are expected to do it . |
| 18 | Otherwise there is a very real risk that new systems will be rejected by the people who are expected to use it . |
| 19 | Children are expected to know it or extrapolate from the reprimands . |
| 20 | Sometimes one fact or figure that you may need is not defined : you are expected to know it . |
| 21 | It also included an interview with fisheries biologist Hans Hultberg , which had been edited to make it seem as if liming was a perfect answer to acidified salmon rivers . |
| 22 | Whether she realized that the French alliance of 1548 was exceedingly fragile , entered into faute de mieux , or whether she assumed that it had a solidity which almost three centuries might have been expected to give it , is not clear . |
| 23 | The other member , who might have been expected to buy it for his own son , a young man recently qualified in law , did not at first do so ; he said business was unreliable , there were not enough clients , the reputation of the firm had been allowed to run down . |
| 24 | The qualification has been designed to make it possible for candidates to select modules which will give them the equivalent of at least three Highers in arts or social science areas . |
| 25 | The film we 're going to see is Flatliners , and Denice tells us she 's been dying to see it for ages . |
| 26 | up here and I , I 've been keeping putting it off and putting it off . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've been wanting to do it for years . ’ |
| 28 | Work has been done on contamination of fish and water and air , but little has been done to study it 's effect on the human population . |
| 29 | It is , no doubt , already familiar to all those attending this meeting , yet still little appears to have been done to overcome it . |
| 30 | It has n't been done has it ? |