Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the absence of other voices making the same moral argument sufficiently loudly , we should perhaps be grateful to hear it from the very heart of the establishment . |
| 2 | If there was no shot in or among the human remains , in the cavities of the skull for instance , would it be possible to find it in the soil , among the sand and gravel and pine needles ? |
| 3 | An expensive film may well be a flop ( Blade Runner cost $27 million yet took under $15 million in North American ( NA ) rentals , which are traditionally supposed to cover negative — that is production — costs for break-even ) ; the fact that it was intended to be profitable puts it in the domain of popular cinema . |
| 4 | A : hello Mr Parkin this is Guy Cook here B : yes A : er do you remember um sending us a er an estimate for electrical repairs * for a hundred and fifty pounds * well I 've er just had a word with the Electricity Board with an engineer called Mr Golding and he tells me that the er the list of jobs you gave us unless there 's any special circumstances should not be more than around one hundred pounds B : oh * A : well he said he 'd have to look at it of course but er is there some special reason why you thought it would cost more A : well would you be prepared to do it for the price he quoted B : no A : well why not B : I ca n't afford it not with my wages and overheads £ I have A : well £ why should I pay an extra fifty pounds if I can get it done cheaper * B : well if you can do that * do |
| 5 | I really think , although I would not be prepared to put it to the test , that you could go out in the streets of London in your nightdress and nobody would notice . |
| 6 | Negotiations continue but no clear way forward has yet presented itself , the Cooking Centre is zoned for housing and there is little prospect that the Region would be prepared to acquire it at the residential land value — £150,000 . |
| 7 | The desiderata for a good background at this point were that it must be perceived by the measuring instrument as significantly darker than the subject , it must be cheap and readily available , and it must be easy to mould it to the growth boxes , fix it to the wall , etc . |
| 8 | He should understand that ‘ the story of Christ is simply a true myth : a myth working on us in the same way as the others , but with this tremendous difference that it really happened : and one must be content to accept it in the same way . ’ |
| 9 | It may , in fact , be better to organise it for the day after you move , because being certain that everything will run according to plan on the day of the move is almost impossible , so it is better to do without your cooker overnight and schedule this for the next morning when you know you are definitely going to be there . |
| 10 | It might be prudent to put it to the test . |
| 11 | If it is not , and the root ball crumbles , you are not going to be able to plant it in the ground without disturbing the roots . |
| 12 | Er and to be able to pick it off the machine at the end of the day you know , as a first class , simple object at , at a competitive price . |
| 13 | And might be able to do it before the weekend perhaps |
| 14 | You 'll be able to borrow it from the office downstairs and view it in the library . |
| 15 | It hoped that the involvement of neutral states like Austria , Sweden and Switzerland — all of whom obviously did not see membership as compromising their neutrality — would persuade the Soviet Union that the new association was sufficiently politically innocuous for Finland to be able to join it in the not too distant future . |
| 16 | Schofield has already had cause to caution Montgomerie — in 1991 — and yesterday he said : ‘ He is a fine golfer and is clearly going to be a major figure in the game for as long as he remains active in it , but he has to be able to take it on the chin . |
| 17 | I would n't be able to see it in the . |
| 18 | Going along the road , er on the A Nineteen , from the north towards er the village er if one assumed that there were to be some development on site D forty , would you be able to see it from the road ? |
| 19 | She says ; It is very important to have a memory of the time when people were here and to be able to record it in the hospital is very important . |
| 20 | ‘ If I managed to get it home with the help of a cabbie we must be able to move it between the two of us . |
| 21 | A metre and a half of copper wire with wooden handgrips at each end went in his pocket plus a box of bullets for his Walther in case he should be able to reclaim it from the masthead . |
| 22 | Whichever method you select you must be able to justify it to the company in order to recover your expenses . |
| 23 | Which means that owners who have released land under the licence system which was established in 1948 to allow land to be occupied and farmed without the owner being trapped by tenancy conditions may not be able to re-occupy it within the stated term . |
| 24 | Technical considerations are being completed , and I hope that we shall be able to put it to the House before long . |
| 25 | Well if you have bacon now you wo n't be able to have it at the weekend . |
| 26 | It looked like half a letter T. The needle was so bent that I knew I knew that I would not be able to remove it in the usual way , so I took my heavy pliers ( the ones with which I behead the Passap/Pfaff needles when they got damaged ) and cut off the top of the needle , below the bend . |
| 27 | well yes and therefore they wanted the appeal procedure , erm to make it fair I 'm not trying to put words in your mouth but that , term , to eradicate the possibility that someone could be able to exclude it from the market unjustifiably |
| 28 | Hereford beef is best and now the consumer will be able to identify it in the shops . |
| 29 | Once we have landed on Mars we will be able to beam it to the galaxy , he said . |
| 30 | Well , it 's very kind of you , but I 'm sure I 'll be able to find it in the car . |