Example sentences of "[be] [verb] it [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are you talking about the current rate as it prevails or we 're told it prevails ion North Yorkshire , or are you looking at a figure which is somewhat nearer the national average or the figure which Mr 's organization have chosen . |
| 2 | Anyway , TWA is not an attractive partner because big debts are forcing it to sell assets too . |
| 3 | I will accept that you are designing it to enable humanity to select and rear a future generation that is peaceful and creative rather than aggressive and destructive , that your personal motives are good . |
| 4 | ‘ So she 's been doing it to hurry things on , has she ? |
| 5 | A higher tax rate on such items can be justified it faces consumers with the true costs , private and external , of producing and consuming the product . |
| 6 | So he said yes you know , they say well if you want to be paid it means people 'll have to be sacked and all this , well you know ! |
| 7 | If one Giant Wolf is slain the chariot moves 6″ , if two are slain it moves 3″ , if all three are slain it is immobilised . |
| 8 | Already in Predynastic times they were using it to make beads , and throughout the Dynastic period it was employed together with lapis lazuli , carnelian and coloured glass to infill cloisonné work on jewellery , notably on the breast ornaments worn by Tutankhamun ( Plate I ) . |
| 9 | But not far behind in the firing line are welfare-dependent single-parent families , now so used to being vilified it seems time to offer a blindfold and last cigarette . |
| 10 | One of the groups which developed the technique is using it to investigate chemistry ; the other is claiming a record for generating the shortest wavelength of coherent ( laser-like ) light . |
| 11 | ‘ Induction offers the chef total control down to the last degree , and because only the pan is heated it means chefs no longer have to work in a hot , uncomfortable kitchen environment . ’ |
| 12 | The problem with dinghy sailing is that once the sailing bug is caught it grabs hold . |
| 13 | Alsace is the only stronghold for the grape outside its native Germany , but its fashionable blandness is causing it to give way to Pinot Blanc . |
| 14 | The black and white feeds in a narrow range of tree species and when none is fruiting it eats leaves . |
| 15 | Where nothing is written it takes time to create a document which is genuinely useful to many of us , both as a verification of our struggle and a signpost to future strategies for our art work . |
| 16 | Whichever way word- processing is used it gives learners the means of refining text until it satisfies them . |
| 17 | Now a school choir from Oxford is performing it using period costume to reflect the era in which it was written . |
| 18 | Although she does admire the friendship of the two men , she is doing it to please Bassanio and thus gaining love from him — which profits no one except herself . |
| 19 | All the political parties have accepted the fact that social security has got to change we 're spending over a third of public spending on social security and each political party is reviewing it to find way of making it more effective and to make saving . |
| 20 | If smoking is allowed it stops people doing it in secret and making it into a clever or fashionable thing to do |
| 21 | Mm , apparently the guy that was driving it had overalls on , so he may have been a mechanic delivering it to somewhere or test driving it over there |
| 22 | THE Queen came under fire last night when it was revealed it costs £369,000 for a day 's sailing in the royal yacht Britannia . |
| 23 | ‘ As far as I know 'e was 'avin' it orf wiv one o' the young gels where 'e worked . |
| 24 | Well maybe she was doing it to get Pete off the hook then . |
| 25 | Eddie 's betrayal of his cousins is also revenge — he was doing it to prevent Rodolpho marrying Catherine primarily , but at the same time he was getting revenge for all the problems that his cousins had caused him , especially regarding Catherine . |