Example sentences of "be [adj] [to-vb] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This is all I shall have to remember him by — you are cruel to treat it with such levity . ’ |
| 2 | There is no harm in adding , say , 5% to that price as long as you are prepared to reduce it by that amount in negotiation . |
| 3 | It is important to remember that the linguistic utterances of others are just as much externally observed behaviour as walking down stairs or pressing a button in a psychophysics laboratory although , because of the high information content of linguistic behaviour , we are prone to endow it with some mystical quality which opens a special window on to the mind of the person generating it . |
| 4 | This decision must not be left to the magistrates to make as they are likely to base it upon pragmatic considerations only . |
| 5 | Whilst a through understanding of AI is not required they should have a little background since all are likely to meet it at one time or another . |
| 6 | Mr MacGregor , who supports strongly the principle of loans for students , is believed to be embarrassed by the controversy created by Mr Robert Jackson , the junior minister for higher education , who devised a top-up scheme which has angered backbench Tories and the banks that are supposed to administer it from next September . |
| 7 | They had been lucky to find it in this hilly and heavily forested terrain . |
| 8 | But Ministers are unlikely to give it to either group as Mr Major does not want the lottery to be seen as gambling . |
| 9 | As for NT , Microsoft is back describing it as primarily a server operating system , and acknowledging that vendors are unlikely to bundle it with more than about 10% of the desktop machines they ship . |
| 10 | As for NT , Microsoft is back describing it as primarily a server operating system , and acknowledging that vendors are unlikely to bundle it with more than about 10% of the desktop machines they ship . |
| 11 | I have to say that the Pro GAP would n't be my first choice in any rack system because each time I 've used one I 've been unable to rid it of that ‘ overprocessed ’ synthetic edge . |
| 12 | Having been unable to get it in 1833 , he was glad that it was forthcoming in 1841 . |
| 13 | With × 20 it is not hard to locate , somewhat to the northwest of Zeta and in the same field with it ; I can glimpse it with × 12 and suspect it with × 8.5 , though I have never been able to see it with any lower magnification . |
| 14 | Frederica could , in the Lake District , have seen a " Wordsworthian " tarn and been able to render it in Wordsworthian words , and , because these words were known , tested , thought about , she could have introduced minute changes , have seen one little thing he had n't seen , changed the point of view . |
| 15 | This particular person had found the shock so great that she had not been able to acknowledge it at all except by taking this evading action . |
| 16 | If the odds were not grossly unfavourable , it should be possible to hold it for several hours . |
| 17 | And if this 6Mb does exist , would it be possible to recover it for general use ? |
| 18 | And it should be possible to apply it to any available material , without the need of programmes specially constructed for the purpose . |
| 19 | It should be possible to convert it to other BASICs without too much difficulty . |
| 20 | It has only been met twice this year , the budget is quite small for the amount of work we can continue to do is quite small er it 's quite possible that it would only need to meet once a year in future so it would be sensible to combine it with other non-policy and traffic matters as a working party . |
| 21 | It would be impertinent to say that to N C V er , to I B M , but it might be appropriate to say it to some of the less enlightened firms , or , should John be taking a similar line , in other words , how interventionist would you like either government or N C V O speaking on behalf of the vol voluntary sector to be , in pressing the business sector to have an overall and agreed strategy rather than the individual and enlightened strategy you put forward . |
| 22 | When you consider that we have a mortgage book of roughly £50 billion , you can see that it would be impossible to offer it to all our borrowers . |
| 23 | So important is this consideration , and it would be perfunctory to regard it as mere vanity , that it may motivate performances to anonymous and usually unconcerned strangers . |
| 24 | ‘ There will be fewer to bring it in next year , when the listed men have gone . ’ |
| 25 | For some reason I had put off starting on it and had even begun to convince myself that it would be better to leave it until next winter . |
| 26 | Then would it be better to send it to some central |
| 27 | To understand the internal dynamic of debate , change and tension within Catholic history in this period , it may be helpful to divide it into three parts . |
| 28 | Though this derives from psychological studies of covert actions types , it would be waste to leave it at that . |
| 29 | ‘ They acted out the robbery in full so that when it came to describing it to everyone , to police , and to insurance investigators , they would be able to describe it in perfect detail . ’ |
| 30 | you might be able to do it off that , you wo n't be able to listen to it at the same time |