Example sentences of "be [verb] it [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been using it for the Open . |
| 2 | A key objective since Tencel was launched has been to position it at the top end of the market , working with the best mills , converters and manufacturers and attracting a premium price for the fibre . |
| 3 | Send them to your boss 's secretary , stating in writing that you are starting on the preparation of the report , as instructed , and are basing it on the enclosed terms of reference . |
| 4 | Carbohydrates provide a good energy supply for the body as they 're converted into glucose , but make sure you 're eating it in the right forms . |
| 5 | How is unemployment measured , they 're measuring it in the formal sector , and you can actually live by being employed in the informal sector , which is often not recorded . |
| 6 | Well you 're measuring it in the opposite direction to the way you 're measuring X. |
| 7 | If they 're doing it for the right reasons , like the lady over there , a loving couple with a child . |
| 8 | so like perhaps , say six weeks you 're doing it on the voluntary basis |
| 9 | So there is a shortage of hard information in some areas , er , it is a changing situation , and it is one where the Committee is under very clear instruction to extend the alternative care options that it gives to clients , and therefore that again is a complexity in terms of your ability to ensure you 've got adequate funding and are directing it in the right areas in , in order to meet , not only the needs of people out there , but the changing needs and what is , Mike has already referred to as being the preferred solutions erm , many of which have not been available to people in the past . |
| 10 | One of the troubles with wood has always been getting it in the right sizes and making sure that it is free from hidden defects . |
| 11 | ‘ The only difference between Lee and Roy Keane and David Hirst is that they are doing it in the Premier League . |
| 12 | Understand that you are not shutting the door on the one you loved , but you are shutting it on the negative force that lived — or still lives — within them . |
| 13 | I may have been approaching it from the wrong angle . |
| 14 | The key seems to be shaping it to the particular client . |
| 15 | His primary task in the short term would be to mobilize it for the regional elections in March . |
| 16 | you certainly wo n't be getting it on the following Monday |
| 17 | if you 're gon na plan bare rooted trees and stuff you 've got ta be doing it in the dormant season , so you 're talking October , November possibly October . |
| 18 | now if we 've got a tap handy probably the best thing would be to run it under the cold tap and that hopefully would take away any dirt and extra bits and pieces that are stuck around it . |
| 19 | ‘ Lewis seems to be making it in the old alternative comedy scene , does n't he ? ’ |
| 20 | When you 're seeking a grant for your pet project , you have to sell it to the sponsoring body as if you were touting it on the open market , because there are so many pet projects and only so many grants . |
| 21 | Now , after a month of nervously transferring it from place to place as the situation worsened , the French government were giving it to the British . |
| 22 | " You will read this book just as though you had bought it at a bookstall and you were reading it in the ordinary way as a whole . " |
| 23 | To understand this point you should imagine ( or even actually perform ) your pronunciation of a sentence in a number of different ways : for example , if the sentence was ‘ I want to buy a new car ’ and you were to say it in the following ways : ‘ pleading ’ , ‘ angry ’ , ‘ sad ’ , ‘ happy ’ , ‘ proud ’ , it is certain that at least some of your performances will be different from some others , but it is also certain that the technique for analysing and transcribing intonation introduced earlier in the course will be found inadequate to represent the different things you do . |
| 24 | If , however , he believes in the right to a free and independent trade union , let him grant that right to the employees at the Government communications headquarters , who have been denied it for the past eight years . |
| 25 | The second way of considering the tending of the fire is to compare it to the feminine ability to create and sustain atmosphere . |
| 26 | I see , I mean it 's good to see really that er test match has been dom well almost dominated at the moment , by , by a slow bowler , it 's an ideal situation for in England , batsmen done their job , England are in command , got lots of runs to play with , but it 's definitely the left arm spinner who 's causing the , the greatest problem out there , he 's , he 's landing it in the right place , he likes variation in that over , confident enough looks very tempted , always very difficult to come in at first twenty minutes as a batsman , when you 've come in on a turning wicket , a very , very , difficult . |
| 27 | The Three Choirs vineyard is making an English equivalant of Beaujolais Nouveau , and is launching it on the French market . |
| 28 | So it helps first of all when you 're setting up the spreadsheet I suppose you can create one formula then copy it instead of having to edit each one individually , erm but later on you might accidentally or maybe deliberately in some cases overtype a cell and er if you have to put it back again and what you probably do is copy it from the adjacent cell and then you have to study the formula to try and understand it , and then edit it if it was n't the copyable formula and , er it may take a little time to edit it but it could take you a lot longer to understand it . |
| 29 | ‘ Magnus is among the top assets in the XEU portfolio and my job is to keep it in the premier league , ’ he says . |
| 30 | Yes , he , he 's doing it at the British Legion next time . |