Example sentences of "[subord] it be [verb] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a manifesto for change , and although it was given greater publicity by the Tories and the local press than by the Labour Party , it was with this manifesto that Labour increased its majority in Haringey . |
| 2 | Want to know if it 's spreading , if it 's getting worse . |
| 3 | No I should put your anorak on cos it 's getting cooler . |
| 4 | And since Felicity — that 's my wife — ca n't now experience what 's happening five years ago — because it 's receding faster than the speed of light , and the speed of light is a constant which , as we know from Einsteinian physics , can not be exceeded … |
| 5 | Elsewhere , the index reports that western Australia , western Europe and the southern USA are getting wetter , while it is becoming drier in western South America and large areas of south-XXXX east Asia . |
| 6 | This means that tax evasion is depriving the state — and the people who benefit from what the state can do for them , whether it is building better roads and hospitals or cleaning the seashore or guarding the frontiers — of a sum amounting to about 10% of the current official national income . |
| 7 | Well I think it 's gon na get worse before it 's gets better actually , I think it 's erm I do n't know . |
| 8 | ‘ There are still some excellent blocks to be had , though it is getting harder . |
| 9 | I was sweating now even though it was getting cooler . |
| 10 | Though it was getting harder to keep down . |