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

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1 Although Labour promises more generous rebates , no one believes it , because the proposal has not been costed , no details of it are available and no money would be made available .
2 Now , parts of it are inaccessible and the tennis court is a chicken run .
3 Yet 18 months after its signing , and set against the political and economic backdrop of today 's Europe , the dangers of persisting with it are smaller than the dangers of scuttling it .
4 Would n't it be refreshing if a new course were opened which simply claimed to be a lovely place for club players to play but that it would n't really test the pros .
5 ‘ Would n't it be awful if a cat scratched your heart . ’
6 As Haslemere has already begun to make the town accessible for wheelchair-bound people , would n't it be nice if the town could become totally accessible for both able bodied and disabled people .
7 On the plus side , would n't it be nice if the clients were helped to look ahead and did n't go on lurching from legal hitch to last-minute legal hitch ?
8 ‘ I wish it were true that the fund will continue to grow , but we are at the mercy of the markets , and we must keep a healthy capital amount for all needy old soldiers down on their luck .
9 Even if it were true that the war is over and the Serbs have won , victory will not bring stability to Bosnia & Hercegovina .
10 Even if it were true that the Tsar was long dead , as people said , Abie knew that no army ever gave up the hunt for a deserter .
11 Secondly ( as was pointed out by Russell , among others ) , even if it were true that the number of basic entities was finite , the proposed analysis still would not yield the desired result .
12 If it were true that the private sector uses resources more productively than the public sector , the transfer of resources might directly produce more output .
13 If it were clear when a party has formed an intention to incur legal obligation , if a person did commonly define the obligation he desired to assume in terms which left little doubt as to its nature , it would be unnecessary , and indeed merely foolish , to require an additional test of that intention .
14 The extra detail visible in the monkey 's brain might just be a consequence of it being bigger than the rat 's , but a comparison between the somatosensory cortices of the two animals shows that this is n't so , for this time it is in the rat that the extra detail is visible .
15 and Schiemann J. , and in the latter by Hoffmann J. The W. H. Smith case took the form of an appeal to the Divisional Court from the Crown Court , by way of case stated , against the conviction of the two defendant stores for Sunday trading ; the Torfaen decision was published after the hearing before the Crown Court and before the hearing before the Divisional Court and , it being plain that the Crown Court had misdirected itself on the effect of article 30 , the Divisional Court quashed the convictions .
16 Like many questions which the police were obliged to put , these were a formality , it being clear that the bargeowners could n't answer them .
17 He shouted to his riders , at least those near enough to hear , to try not to ride down any mounted men in their way , as those would likely be their own folk , it being improbable that the enemy would have been able to catch any of the fleeing horses .
18 It 's curious that the Bloch Symphony for trombone and orchestra is rarely played — one would have thought that trombonists , starved of repertoire , would air it at every opportunity .
19 It 's six and a half minutes to six .
20 It 's fantastic that the boy is back . ’
21 It 's bigger than the one we 've got , ’ said his Mum .
22 Yeah you see it 's bigger cos the bedroom
23 It 's freezing and the pitch is rock hard .
24 But it 's due and the farm accounts wo n't take it .
25 Fifth thought : shit , this is the turret of the Cathedral ; and it 's dark because it 's late and the floods have gone off .
26 It 's higher than the one I had because erm the base is obviously I just had the springs going across did n't I ?
27 I 'll go and make the sauce , then I 'll have a bath while it 's simmering if the generator 's up to it . ’
28 It 's straightforward and the offending cyst is easily removed .
29 And the early reading of P P G seven it seems to me it 's apparent that the principle messages are that the development in open countryside should be strictly controlled , and I would underline that point strictly controlled , and that the countryside should be safeguarded for its own sake and non-renewable and natural resources should be afforded protection .
30 it was all to do with recognising it was the middle of the winter , sun was at it 's lowest and the sun would be coming back again , and maybe that 's some sort of gut feeling
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