Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [be] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the official closure it was with mixed emotions that we took our leave of Wadeville . |
| 2 | I mean there are some Conservatives who do actually believe in the social welfare of the but there are also , I 'm I 'm sure there are large numbers who actually know what vicious streak there is behind a lot of the other measures of social control that have gone on in this country since consensus was in nineteen seventy nine er you actually realise what what a tragedy it is in this area . |
| 3 | The reminiscing continued — the deaths of friends , one man marching alone through the night , the terrible hard labour it was for some men to die , night marches from one safe house to another , the rain , the wet , the damp , the cold of waiting for an ambush in one place for hours . |
| 4 | It 's just like an inverse it 's of that number |
| 5 | On the spiritual side it was at one time also considered self-evident that the Russians , adherence to the Christian religion put them automatically on a higher plane than the heathen , raw-flesh-eating ‘ savages ’ . |
| 6 | In its grace , fire , and expressive fluency it was in some ways an important transition between the old Teutonic Bach style of the nineteenth century and what we expect now from the so-called authenticity movement . |
| 7 | Moreover , if there was maladministration it is of little consequence now in that the new regime established by the Financial Services Act of 1986 has rendered the DTI 's role in this matter redundant . |
| 8 | As a symbolic act it was of much importance since it offered the prospect of a framework for a wider Anglo-Irish settlement and provided a hope of genuine political involvement for the Catholic minority in Northern Ireland , not in a failed local assembly but through their co-religionists in the south . |
| 9 | So he has accepted an offer to drive the new Vector at Silverstone , but insists at the moment it is for this race only . |
| 10 | A the moment it is in most cases just about possible to say that , according to a family history , a certain risk exists . |
| 11 | Although Scottish Homes ' flagship schemes , such as the renewal of Wester Hailes , capture most attention it is in smaller projects that most of the agency 's efforts are concentrated . |
| 12 | Because of its long withdrawal period it is of limited use in meat producing animals . |
| 13 | Embarrassment is under no obligation to be comic , though it is most naturally that , and as a fictional theme it is of inexhaustible power and seemingly unending appeal . |
| 14 | She just sat on the stairs eating biscuit after biscuit until , just before midnight , the telephone rang and she heard the voice of the surgeon telling her that the operation was over , that it had been a complete success and that Paul was likely to make a rapid recovery It was after that call that Annette realised that she had steadily munched her way through two and a half packets of biscuits . |
| 15 | It 's not from a chip shop it 's from that Londis shop . |
| 16 | What humbug it is for some Opposition Members to say that one should buy British and then travel around in foreign cars . |
| 17 | And what a great day it was for 82-year-old George Mitchell of the Belmont Club . |
| 18 | ( b ) Procedure It is of vital importance that the procedures to be adopted in the case of an expulsion are clearly and effectively laid down in the partnership agreement and that they are observed to the letter . |
| 19 | His eyes flashed wide as he said it , and when he looked at his wife it was with unfeigned admiration . |
| 20 | At the top of the backswing it is of great importance for the right knee and toes to be in a straight line . |
| 21 | The dominance of the CPSU appeared unassailable at the start of the 1980s , but by the end of the decade it was in serious trouble . |
| 22 | Lyte — whose bicentenary it is on 1st June , this year — was also a fanatical bookman . |
| 23 | Do n't forget , those of you in Tuesday class , next week it 's at four P M and not two P M. |
| 24 | In this paper it is on these dimensions as they can exist between sets of managers and workers ( as systems ) that I focus . |
| 25 | She had a feeling it was in that carpet-bag , but could n't get at the bag . |
| 26 | But first you need to notice another feature of English marital arrangements which now tends to be treated as secondary even though in the past it was of central importance . |
| 27 | Sooner , rather than later , and generally after a few stiff drams , Joicey would break into the Gaelic , roaring and shouting at the top of his voice : ‘ Man to man it was in those days . |
| 28 | Perhaps you could sing that little song it 's in this Songs of Fellowship , it 's number seventy three . |
| 29 | erm If you take a novel like Dorothy Sayers ' Gaudy Night , which is offered as an example of a classic detective story which really is also a novel about academic life , it 's a love story , I think as a love story and as a novel of academic life it 's in many ways very good indeed , but I think as a detective story it 's completely uninteresting you know because one part has to fade in order that the , the other should come into focus . |
| 30 | of the day I do n't which government it was at that time cos it was in the fifties okayed it and |