Example sentences of "[det] it [verb] be a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All in all it had been a busy but constructive evening 's work . |
| 2 | ‘ The snow 's very loose on the Wildhorn at this time of year and all it took was a small charge to start the ball rolling , if you 'll excuse the pun . |
| 3 | All it requires is a little homework . ’ |
| 4 | All it takes is a little thought and organisation . |
| 5 | All it takes is a little forward-planning . |
| 6 | ‘ Initially people think bonsai trees must be quite difficult to keep , but all it takes is a few minutes a day to see they are properly watered . |
| 7 | All it contained was a small jar of capers . |
| 8 | All it wanted was a new cover , I said , and she almost looked convinced when I said I was sure we could reach a price that suited us both . |
| 9 | All it needed was a good tug . |
| 10 | The women were told it would soon be mended , but by the time it came for bed it still was n't repaired , although probably all it needed was a new fuse . |
| 11 | All it needed was a little glue . |
| 12 | Insisting that all it needed was a little Lux , he put the painting on the floor and began scrubbing . |
| 13 | With a wry smile he thought to himself that all it needed was a few thousand square miles of northern forest such as might be found in Norway or Canada and they would look completely right . |
| 14 | subsequently after about ten flights , and porting over the books , and speaking to people who serviced them during the war years , they discovered that all it needed was a well-placed whack with a hammer on the trailing edge of the aileron . |
| 15 | TrueEffects is a compact package — all it needs is a mere 500Kb of hard disk space — and it works really well . |
| 16 | It was atypical of most provincial towns in that it had been a thriving industrial centre for some time , and was taking off again after the disruption caused by the Civil War . |