Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] it [prep] [det] " 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 | They had been lucky to find it in this hilly and heavily forested terrain . |
| 5 | But Ministers are unlikely to give it to either group as Mr Major does not want the lottery to be seen as gambling . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | If the odds were not grossly unfavourable , it should be possible to hold it for several hours . |
| 12 | And it should be possible to apply it to any available material , without the need of programmes specially constructed for the purpose . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Though this derives from psychological studies of covert actions types , it would be waste to leave it at that . |
| 16 | you might be able to do it off that , you wo n't be able to listen to it at the same time |
| 17 | MIDDLESBROUGH football fans unable to get to Wednesday 's Rumbelows Cup semi-final second leg tie against Manchester United at Old Trafford will be able to see it after all . |
| 18 | Besides , he 'd never be able to sustain it for more than a minute or two . |
| 19 | For example , we might draw the inference that a child who is able to name a picture of a boat , while looking at a picture book with her mother , will be able to name it on any other occasion ; the child ‘ knows the meaning of the word boat ’ . |
| 20 | Now in order to make a prediction of what say what 's going to happen this year I would have to know the state of the system of the ocean and the atmosphere on January first and in order to do that in an ideal world I would have a tremendous amount of data about the ocean and about the atmosphere and be able to put it into this model but this data , by and large , does n't exist . |
| 21 | That missing report has been put round the table this morning and I hope that members of the committee would have found it and would be able to add it to that |
| 22 | I 'm pleased to see it on this year 's Congress Agenda . |
| 23 | This is called parallel computing , and everyone trying to build supercomputers of the future has agreed it will be necessary to use it in some form . |
| 24 | So , to be safe it would be wise to use it at any time flying above 10,000 feet . |
| 25 | It is a sad warning , and we would be wise to recognise it as such . |
| 26 | I am inclined to leave it at that . |
| 27 | Cycling in you know , and of course because nobody else wanted the job , sometimes we were supposed to share it with another , and nearly everybody else , except me , would be too big you see . |
| 28 | The one indisputable fact these studies revealed is that the majority of those interviewed were not familiar with the extent of , or damage caused by , corporate crime and amongst the ‘ knowledgeable ’ minority , few were able to define it with any precision . |
| 29 | Because the reliability of a test is so important , it is usual to quantify it in some way . |
| 30 | Er perhaps it is impossible to answer it in this forum but I think it remains an open question sir . |