Example sentences of "it be [verb] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could it be relied on to work well in the United Kingdom ? |
| 2 | But they did not want change and the link to be forged if it were to lead on to wild and radical measures for democracy , equality , and a social revolution that would threaten their larger position of power within the developing economy . |
| 3 | Has my mother any entitlement to income on the £60,000 as it was being gathered in by the solicitors and prior to it being handed over to the investment adviser for the purchase of the securities agreed by the trustees ? |
| 4 | First of all you 're keeping them alive , then you see them getting steadily better and you know it 's getting through to them . |
| 5 | This is , er , this is the same face as you , yesterday I was on about , we 've tried everything , it 's getting down to that now . |
| 6 | It 's getting back to a sensible level again , and the music — especially the British music — is really pushing forward . ’ |
| 7 | It 's building up to critical . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ That storm still looks as if it 's building up to me , ’ said Jimmy . |
| 9 | Is it the valuable service it 's made out to be ? |
| 10 | ‘ All this modelling is n't half as glamorous as it 's made out to be . |
| 11 | People who live in towns donlt understand what goes on in the countryside.It 's hard for us to explain why this great tradition should be preserved , but it is n't the barbaric activity it 's made out to be . |
| 12 | People who live in towns donlt understand what goes on in the countryside.It 's hard for us to explain why this great tradition should be preserved , but it is n't the barbaric activity it 's made out to be . |
| 13 | ‘ This has always been my favourite room , ’ says Mary Jane , ‘ and it 's turned out to be a perfect playroom for Emily and her friends . |
| 14 | You 've got an S O four with two bonds on it and it 's holding on to a hydrogen |
| 15 | It 's shaping up to be an exciting climax to the group and I know Billy Bingham wants to end his managerial career on a high note . ’ |
| 16 | The caravanning life is n't all it 's painted up to be . |
| 17 | That 's what you want , a decent endowment , it takes out all the fluctuations , and er the they 've big reserves , and of course the minute the endowment starts to look a bit poorer , it 's switch back to P E Ps , course I 've always said that P E Ps were a good idea , and the charges are much better now than they were , and I 'm just thinking of the poor chap that 's read the paper two years ago , over his tea and toast on a Sunday and thought mhm good idea , I 'll take an endowment , and two years later it 's the same person saying aha , no , pretty bad news an endowment . |
| 18 | If you 're buying a cut tree , you 'll be paying obviously from where it 's cut up to the bottom branch , or if it 's a rooted tree you 'll be paying from ground level up to the bottom branch again . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's kept down to an absolute bare minimum . |
| 20 | Leanne : It 's joined on to me , it starts at my feet . |
| 21 | Well it 's speeding up to there accelerating and it 's |
| 22 | You see , traditionally the eldest son of the family gives it to his bride-to-be , then eventually it 's handed on to their eldest son . |
| 23 | It 's a very cosy set-up , as you admitted last night , but I do n't suppose she knows what it 's leading up to , if Jones has conveniently forgotten to mention the exact nature of your past relationship . ’ |
| 24 | He found The Rake 's Progress ‘ perspicacious , witty in spite of its stark drama , and thorough as regards research into the period ’ , but he added that ‘ I 'm afraid it 's not half what it 's cracked up to be . ’ |
| 25 | The movie also has a strong message : that wealth is n't all it 's cracked up to be . |
| 26 | Each room has a colour TV — ideal for checking out if Italian football is as good as it 's cracked up to be . |
| 27 | That 's because the Premier League is not what it 's cracked up to be . |
| 28 | Personally , I do n't believe it is all it 's cracked up to be . |
| 29 | Sun Microsystems Inc took exception to the story we wrote saying the new SparcClassic is n't all it 's cracked up to be because it ca n't hack it as a standalone thanks to Solaris eating up all its disk and internal memory ( UX No 416 ) . |
| 30 | Instead of the MIPS R4000-killer it 's cracked up to be , he thinks it may be only a 30% performance improvement over the 80486 . |