Example sentences of "it be a [noun sg] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a subject whose passion for diagrams and abbreviations and formulae can give nuclear physics a run for its money . |
| 2 | I can well believe it , it 's a wonder your typewriter did n't get a hernia . |
| 3 | It 's a beard you idiot . |
| 4 | It 's a question his mother says she ca n't answer . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's a name my family call me , ’ she excused . |
| 6 | Alice had said : ‘ It 's a pity your husband did n't leave him to drown and save himself , but I suppose that on the spur of the moment he did n't weigh up the relative value of a useful teaching career and pimpled stupidity . ’ |
| 7 | It 's a radio you div ! ! |
| 8 | It 's a dispute which Mr Lihou says can only now be settled in court . |
| 9 | It 's a job which men take on when they are at the height of their powers but all too often they have been reduced to a sickly shadow of their former self . |
| 10 | It 's a comparison which Enfield is surprisingly happy with . |
| 11 | It 's a street his sister admits he knew , had a girlfriend there . |
| 12 | It is a pity our goal scoring has dried up ( probably due to Speed and Wallace being injured ) |
| 13 | For Amber 's mum divorcee Mrs Armitage , 48 , it is a relief her daughter 's Amber and Cara , 17 , know about contraception , HIV and AIDS , sexually transmitted diseases , cervical cancer and sexual intercourse . |
| 14 | It is a battle which Mr Ciampi might be tempted to influence from his new position of command . |
| 15 | Evelyn Goldsmith ( 1984 , p.407 ) , however , found that ‘ The depiction of objects of which parts are implied as lying beyond the picture frame does not seem to cause any particular problems of interpretation ’ and comments that a researcher , M. Crago , ‘ feels that it is a convention which children quickly learn to accept ’ . |
| 16 | But it is a self which readers of the book can only rarely have found it hard to experience . |
| 17 | ‘ It is a spell which Calatin will know . ’ |
| 18 | It is a church whose authority lies in its age and its preservation of a form of worship which can be traced back through two millennia . |
| 19 | ‘ I know it is a possibility my father has much in mind , ’ the boy admitted soberly . |
| 20 | It is a diagnosis whose burden is that the supposedly mistaken analysis , of a kind which has persisted through centuries , is owed not to good reason but to a kind of desire . |
| 21 | It is a region my wife and myself know very well . ’ |
| 22 | And it is a claim whose force in this instance comes through a demystification generated across inversion . |
| 23 | It is a process which Mr de Klerk must accelerate , but which he will find hard to control . |
| 24 | It is a job whose profile has been suddenly heightened by the advent on television of Heartbeat , an adaptation of the Constable books written by the North Yorkshire author and former policeman , Peter Walker alias Nicholas Rhea . |
| 25 | It is a theory whose plausibility and aesthetic attractiveness in England was considerable at a time ( the later 1970s ) when the English choral tradition was flourishing and when many sensed the need for a change of direction after the loss of David Munrow ; by a kind of happy accident it has proved to be consistent with a much wider range of evidence than was initially suspected . |
| 26 | It is a matter which Parliament has yet to debate . |
| 27 | It will always be hard for the courts to distinguish between what is harmful and what is merely unpleasant or challenging , but it is a task which society must confront for its own good . |
| 28 | It is a term which Carver would have used as a young man to dissociate himself and his peers from others , and its use here encourages the reader to share Carver 's memories of his own surprise and , perhaps , disappointment at Gardner 's appearance . |
| 29 | Conceived as a challenge for VW 's increasingly active motorsport division , it is a car whose sum is even greater than its parts . |
| 30 | It is an idea whose time has come . |