Example sentences of "it [is] [adj] [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it 's straight from Hollywood really ; but instead of falling into the arms of Barbara Stanwyck , it would be Tyrone Power . |
| 2 | But they eat and drink the best , and when the voyage is done , it 's hundreds of pounds instead of hundreds of pence in their pockets . |
| 3 | Well I sometimes do when , er , if , I have a tendency when it 's , when it 's right to praise instantly when it 's right and when it 's wrong . |
| 4 | Well a yeah it 's nice for Gill really cos he do n't enjoy it . |
| 5 | Well it 's nice of Diane though , to offer to . |
| 6 | Yeah , it 's it 's easy on Megadrive though . |
| 7 | It 's all on draught so er , they have stocks and that . |
| 8 | It 's all under control now |
| 9 | But we er are welcoming the fact that there is a recognition of the rising population of Wales er in giving us this er this additional seat er primarily the additional population has not come in industrial South Wales which er er which er people think of perhaps as the most typically Welsh area , it 's actually in two counties of Clwyd and Dyfed that are erm growing most rapidly because of lifestyle migration , retirement migration erm into those two areas and that is why the additional seat , if you can put it that way , er takes from all the other four of course , is is the mid and West Wales seat which has been compared by the honourable member for Cornwall er tonight and it has only got a population of four hundred and one thousand but on the other hand of course it is such an extensive seat because the population sparsity in that area is much , much worse than even in Cornwall and therefore it is going to stretch from South of Milford Haven to the Llanrwst area really within probably twenty miles of the North Wales coast , it 's a who it 's the whole of two counties plus one additional very badly populated constituency erm in in the county of Gwynedd , an awkward constituency but one that we are certainly looking forward fighting and winning to give us the five out of five er now that er the boundaries are going through tonight and obviously it 's all in line really er to look at the other , the third order of course , the question of the registration of overseas voters in the nineteen ninety two election overseas voters had their first opportunity to participate in Westminster elections . |
| 10 | Hang on , it 's two for page actually . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's typical of Rex really that he should blame the poor man who died for all his troubles . |
| 12 | Well I suppose it 's good for children anyway . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's unlucky for Mo right now , but there are five strikers going for two places and I 've got to grab my chance . ’ |
| 14 | Now I know it 's traditional for Daleswomen not to have an interest in politics , but our family was Liberal by and large . |
| 15 | The er road from Alston over to is blocked with snow and it 's passable from Alston over to Wear there only with four wheel drive vehicles . |
| 16 | It 's third of February today . |
| 17 | It 's different from Rangers where , if he had an injury , he could go out and buy . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's different in India where I come from ! |
| 19 | A MUCH-PRAISED AMERICAN playwright , John Guare has never received his due in this country — not , I think , because his comedies do n't appeal to the English sense of humour but because it 's difficult for actors here to get across their vision of insane optimism and everyday insanity . |
| 20 | Their favourites are : ‘ It 's useless in winter when your fingers are numb with cold . ’ |
| 21 | I do n't think it 's necessarily about teaching er children primarily about sex or about sexual pleasure , I think it 's all , initially , about personal hygiene and then developing that into how they can make their life safer for themself , or giving them choices to say , well I can choose to become pregnant or not to become pregnant and , I think it 's more about choices rather than saying orgasms and erm sexual pleasure , or |
| 22 | If you lifted a large laundry basket think about the size of a laundry basket , think about where the hands would go then down , lift it up and if it 's full of laundry then it 's obviously going to be heavier than if it was empty but that 's the size . |
| 23 | or touching it and that pad should be big enough to cover the wound , so you should something , overlaps , alright , and then if you find , if you unwrap the roll a little bit further , you do n't want to unroll it completely , your see that if while you 're using it in practice you need to roll it up again backwards towards the back of the bandage like so , we 'll roll it up again , backwards and when you get to the bandage you just fold the bandage up around the long end and wind the short end round it firmly and there it 's ready for use again in practice , you would n't of course do that for real would you ? |
| 24 | It is adaptive for animals not to mate with members of other species . |
| 25 | During its maturation it is subject to conditions not exactly like those the mother matured in ; and at fertilization it is acted on by a mate with a constitution unlike its own and unlike its mother 's . |
| 26 | For other types of paper it is best to leech out some of the colour from a marker pen point by placing it tip to tip against the blender pen . |
| 27 | Because of its softness and weightlessness , it is best in lengths up to a yard long . |
| 28 | It is helpful for pupils not to have to look into bright light . |
| 29 | Not that I want to kill anybody now , but it is all for defence rather than offence , and it does make me feel a lot more secure . |
| 30 | It is one of form rather than substance . |