Example sentences of "it [be] [adj] [noun] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's late night on Thursday in n it ? |
| 2 | I never found it to be a boring job , erm if it is boring I think it 's because they 're only making it , if they make it that way and I think it 's partly due , if they , if people do talk that way then I think it 's partly due to the sort of duty systems that people work now , and erm the number of hours they work , and , and strangely for little things like the introduction of television , I think television , very nice in its way but it 's killed life on fire stations and in certain areas , cos the whole business of conversation and learning and so on has gone , people would much sooner sit nowadays in front of the television and be entertained for an evening , instead of using all the other skills and , and erm things that are offered to them . |
| 3 | It was extra train on Sunday and today , to prepare for tomorrow 's vital game against Peterborough . |
| 4 | It was late afternoon on August 28 last year , the day that Anna McGurk , an office worker with Gloucester city council , was strangled . |
| 5 | ‘ But it was good food on board , on the whole ; and you could always help yourself with biscuits and a bit of cheese or something . |
| 6 | It was hard luck on Steinmark , that went without saying , but if the man had been lurking in disreputable quarters and lurching home drunk , it was his own fault . |
| 7 | ‘ It was bad luck on Darryll Holland , who probably would have been riding here but for picking up a four-day suspension . |
| 8 | As Johnston said , it was bad luck on Dave Millard who had begun brilliantly and who , though eventually submerged by force of circumstances , had still shown Johnston a player he evidently never saw in Australia . |