Example sentences of "it [be] [adj] [conj] [pron] [is] " in BNC.

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1 And even if it were enforceable and there 's three how would you decide which two of the three could do the job .
2 Yes , quite , quite , it 's , it 's intriguing because it 's so un so different to what I had in mind .
3 She says it the same sort of consistency as yogurt but it 's salty and it 's warm and it 's not very nice at all she said .
4 It 's dear and it 's dying !
5 It 's stop-start and it 's boring .
6 They it 's simple , it 's nice , it 's elegant and it 's not an item at all unless you have a further premise that the world itself is simple , nice and elegant and you have no reason to believe that at all , but since that applies across all sides , I think linguistics is in no worse shape .
7 So make sure it 's safe , take your casualty from the cause , you may have to resuscitate , now if a person swallows something by mouth , there 's two types of poisons , one can go by mouth and one is er corrosive and the other is non-corrosive , but at the same time you have a liquid or tablets , now if it 's a corrosive liquid that you have swallowed or somebody has swallowed , it 's burning as it 's going down , and may I say in first aid you never ever on any circumstances make anybody sick er especially poisons , can you imagine if it 's burnt going down it 's probably perforated the food pipe and somebody comes along and overdoses on the water , because you can give sips of water for corrosive , well it 's because you 're trying to keep the airway open , if it 's burning , corrosive is burning you 'll get swelling , so this is why you give sips of water , but if you give too much your casualty will be sick and if it 's burnt going down and perforated the tubes and they 're bringing it up again it 's gon na burn coming up and go into those perforations that and cause further damage .
8 It 's black and it 's a board .
9 Well it 's better but it 's not right .
10 ‘ If a son of mine 'as no feeling for this land , it 's better that 'e 's off it . ’
11 I personally feel it 's better than what 's there now at the moment , it 's also positioned on a a site which is now zoned for housing anyway in the district plan , erm it is providing true good quality houses in the area , we we personally feel that it 's better than what 's being proposed alongside here .
12 I personally feel it 's better than what 's there now at the moment , it 's also positioned on a a site which is now zoned for housing anyway in the district plan , erm it is providing true good quality houses in the area , we we personally feel that it 's better than what 's being proposed alongside here .
13 It 's better because it 's better .
14 Is it is it er I mean it 's reasonable because it 's only bottom one ?
15 She says it the same sort of consistency as yogurt but it 's salty and it 's warm and it 's not very nice at all she said .
16 ‘ We were all friends before we got the band together , and it 's strange that there 's gon na be changes , ’ continues Greg , with clinical ruthlessness .
17 So it 's strange but it 's er maybe it 's not so strange
18 It 's strange and it 's only
19 John Hasted , professor of physics at Birkbeck College , University of London , and an investigator of the paranormal , was very wary when told that Shaw and Edwards had been fakers ‘ It 's possible that it 's true , ’ he told New Scientist Asked about his conclusions from his own work he said ‘ I accept that there are , shall we say , pulses of paranormal action which take the form of mini-acoustical shock waves .
20 It 's possible that he 's trying to test your love for him .
21 ( 10 ) It 's possible that there 's life on Mars ( 11 ) It 's possible that there 's life on Mars and it 's possible that there is no life on Mars ( 12 ) It 's possible that there 's life on Mars , and in fact it is now certain that there is Now from this set of dilemmas the notion of implicature offers a way out , for it allows one to claim that natural language expressions do tend to have simple , stable and unitary senses ( in many cases anyway ) , but that this stable semantic core of en has an unstable , context-specific pragmatic overlay — namely a set of implicatures .
22 ( 10 ) It 's possible that there 's life on Mars ( 11 ) It 's possible that there 's life on Mars and it 's possible that there is no life on Mars ( 12 ) It 's possible that there 's life on Mars , and in fact it is now certain that there is Now from this set of dilemmas the notion of implicature offers a way out , for it allows one to claim that natural language expressions do tend to have simple , stable and unitary senses ( in many cases anyway ) , but that this stable semantic core of en has an unstable , context-specific pragmatic overlay — namely a set of implicatures .
23 ( 10 ) It 's possible that there 's life on Mars ( 11 ) It 's possible that there 's life on Mars and it 's possible that there is no life on Mars ( 12 ) It 's possible that there 's life on Mars , and in fact it is now certain that there is Now from this set of dilemmas the notion of implicature offers a way out , for it allows one to claim that natural language expressions do tend to have simple , stable and unitary senses ( in many cases anyway ) , but that this stable semantic core of en has an unstable , context-specific pragmatic overlay — namely a set of implicatures .
24 ( 10 ) It 's possible that there 's life on Mars ( 11 ) It 's possible that there 's life on Mars and it 's possible that there is no life on Mars ( 12 ) It 's possible that there 's life on Mars , and in fact it is now certain that there is Now from this set of dilemmas the notion of implicature offers a way out , for it allows one to claim that natural language expressions do tend to have simple , stable and unitary senses ( in many cases anyway ) , but that this stable semantic core of en has an unstable , context-specific pragmatic overlay — namely a set of implicatures .
25 said it looked alright , but to me she said it 's terrible because it 's so short , I 've never had it this short in my life but he said it looked OK
26 It 's zany , it 's irreverent and it 's brimful of right-on attitudes , but I found it virtually impossible to raise a smile , never mind a laugh .
27 We think it 's viable if there 's an investment ’ .
28 It 's absurd and it 's profound about parents , children , human selfishness and obviously greed .
29 It 's fascinating or he 's fascinated !
30 But it it it 's tasteful but it 's not not too bad .
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