Example sentences of "[be] an [adj] [noun sg] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Compass errors are an awful nuisance and it is well worth finding out a little about them . |
| 2 | However , the runner-up may have been an unlucky loser as it was later discovered that he had raced with a injured heel . |
| 3 | During the 1930s and throughout the Second World War the site had been an isolated airfield and it was here , immediately following the end of the war and a clamp-down on the interchange of information with the USA , that it was decided to set up Britain 's civil atomic energy programme . |
| 4 | A dedicated machine can be an expensive luxury unless it 's used regularly . ’ |
| 5 | The demand for exports ( X ) , however , is assumed to be an exogenous variable as it depends on incomes and demand conditions overseas . |
| 6 | So it was inevitable that there would be an emotional outburst when it was revealed that the local health authority are investigating the much-loved GP for working too hard . |
| 7 | In addition , unresponsiveness of the V8 subset may be an early event since it was found in a patient at CDC stage I. The only known common factor between patients in all groups was HIV infection . |
| 8 | Sedgefield District Council 's development committee turned down the application by the Redfern family because there would be an inadequate access and it would change the character of the village . |
| 9 | RMI must be an integrated process or it is likely to fail . |
| 10 | Well I 'll tell you what that 's gon na be an awful job if it is ! |
| 11 | The XJS may be an ageing leviathan but it is still a unique car . |
| 12 | The very thing for which the bourgeoisie strove , profit , ceased to be an adequate motivation once it had brought sufficient wealth . |
| 13 | so , I mean , one school turned out to be an old factory and it was of six floors and it had one of these like industrial lifts , you know , the open caged lifts |
| 14 | Football may be an athletic profession but it 's also a borstal for wayward genius . |
| 15 | The two archbishops thought that Ramsey would be an excellent bishop but it was not right , it was bad for the Church as well as for the study of divinity , to take him out of the Cambridge chair after so short a tenure . |
| 16 | But it 's an expensive drug and it has unpleasant side effects . |
| 17 | It 's an economic argument but it 's also about image — and we all know how important that has become in stereotyping countries . |
| 18 | The agent 's an awful duffer when it comes to dates . |
| 19 | It 's an odd business and it seems to be mixed up with Edwin Garland 's will . |
| 20 | It 's an uninspiring village but it has a railway station , so it 's a convenient place to begin . |
| 21 | erm it 's an automatic enhancement and it depends on your actual length of service and you know when you actually apply for the for the infirmity allowance . |
| 22 | It 's an important port and it connects the east with the west . |
| 23 | It is learning about religion it 's an educational process and it has an importance , whether it 's learning about religion and whether its learning it as a cultural , historical and a religious er tradition of the country and that is what is important . |
| 24 | It 's an invigorating concept because it involves going out and searching for new stories , new voices , new views , the articulate in the community as well as those who have no voice . |
| 25 | It 's an ex-directory number or it would never rest |
| 26 | ICL 's second trophy went to its Bracknell , Berkshire-based Mid Range Systems division for the volume of DRS 6000 series systems and associated Unix products and services shipped abroad — its revenues are reckoned to have trebled over the past three years to over £250m ; Cambridge-based IXI Ltd was recognised for its success in the open systems software arena with its X.desktop product for Unix , and Chalfont , Buckinghamshire-based Madge Networks Ltd , which ships its high performance Token Ring networking products across the world , and finds it necessary to kid the locals that it 's an American company when it is doing business in the US , also wins an Export award . |
| 27 | It 's an old maxim but it 's true : to a great extent , you are what you eat . |
| 28 | It 's an old bell and it might only have one good noise left in it . |
| 29 | But what you do as a removal man is you get hold of the cord that you 've pulled away from the side of the frame , put a knot in it , a loose knot , then leave go gently because again if you do n't leave go gently if it 's an old cord when it gets to the reaches the knot it 'll snap and you 'll still lose the weight inside . |
| 30 | Only I said it 's an open invitation when it 's left on the doorstep you see . |