Example sentences of "and it [be] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I am a gout sufferer , and it 's no laughing matter .
2 Lynda La Plante is in grave danger of burning herself out and it 's no laughing matter .
3 Lynda La Plante is in grave danger of burning herself out and it 's no laughing matter .
4 Lynda La Plante is in grave danger of burning herself out and it 's no laughing matter .
5 But all that changed long ago and it 's no good yearning for what 's disappeared .
6 There is n't another ferry off Straker 's Cay till Saturday night and it 's no good expecting me to get any preparatory work done on Wavebreaker till Monday at the earliest , and then it 'll be two or three days before — ‘
7 Jones , soccer 's anti-hero , admits he is not one of the most loved men around but adds : ‘ These sort things happen and it 's no good saying they do n't . ’
8 Erm but again you have got to decide what it is you want out of your retirement because you 're the boss and it 's no good moaning when you 're into your retirement that it does n't suit you because you 've planned it , you 've made the decisions and therefore it 's up to you to alter whatever you do n't like .
9 And it 's no good just looking at little bits of it .
10 Thus in the case of ( 38 ) it might be " terrible things always happen in war , that 's its nature and it 's no good lamenting that particular disaster " ; in the case of ( 39 ) it might be " calm down , there 's no point in worrying about whether he 's going to come because there 's nothing we can do about it " ; and in the case of ( 40 ) it might be " it 's no concern of ours ' .
11 We have heard many times why that has not been possible and it 's no good crying over spilt milk , as they say in these parts .
12 And it 's no good for her to go on and think she 's gon na get a little girl is it ?
13 sort of Eastern religion type , meditation and thing and it 's no good at all !
14 And it 's no good actually , it 's not good pulling it like that and pulling it away because it 'll still be there .
15 And it 's no good moaning , so has to go and do something about it ,
16 If we make further savings in the course of the next financial year the benefit will be felt by the citizens of Cambridge and it 's no good promising them things which we ca n't deliver .
17 It was it was very , it was very sixteen year olds find this hard when they 're doing the , the high level stuff but it 's no good giving you the easy stuff cos you 're both very bright , both very clever and it 's no good saying , well what , does anyone know what one add two is is it ?
18 And it 's no good saying , ‘ It is for us to determine the good life .
19 And it 's no damn business of yours !
20 So erm so give it a go anyway and see what happens erm and it 's no great hardship to have to y'know kind of do it in two or more sets I would n't have thought y'know it 'll it 'll probably still work .
21 I realise she had attended with other children and it 's no easy task to keep track on all of them .
22 Wow , he plays drums — multi-talented ! ’ and you 've just grown up with it and it 's no big deal .
23 This is a shame , as the tower casing is peppered with knock-out mountings for serial ports and it 's no big deal to relocate the ports there .
24 Mind you , there 's a danger in too much interbreeding and it 's no different with human beings .
25 Er in most of them will er most people in Ireland will be in a pub at some stage of the day you know and it 's no unusual thing to er we 've got a recording studio in we live or I live rather and it 's not unusual to walk out the studio at er lunch time with some people you 'd been recording and go into the pub for a lunch and if you were n't very careful you could still be there that evening singing
26 Sophie was after all thirteen , and it 's a rare contemporary child — especially born to parents in the communicative arts , that being the only umbrella heading under which both Lou and myself could suitably cluster : though he saw , probably rightly , greater sensibility and sensitivity in a Bloch quartet than he did in a Sunday Times editorial — who can expect both parents to live permanently and companionably together .
27 Er and that 's been quite successful , about twenty five or thirty chief executives , chairman come to that lunch er each each quarter or so er we hosted about six of us and it 's a tremendous opportunity to get to know and be known er in the business community .
28 ‘ It 's thrilling and it 's a tremendous job of work , so you feel extremely satisfied .
29 So we know , we should and remember of course that in the book Freud chooses two examples as Joy told me the church and the army and these are just examples and of course Freud chooses them partly because they 're very big groups so they in some ways they er exemplify the principles he 's talking about because clearly in a small group like this you could say well look , what is going on is really I mean we all have , we all know each other and it 's a face-to-face group and really what happens here is an of the dynamics group and I think it is actually .
30 " The shipping business is rather separate from the rest of the group , and it 's a whole-time job , believe you me . "
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