Example sentences of "it [is] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's past a joke now . |
| 2 | ‘ Not when it 's with a man who has no regard for her welfare . ’ |
| 3 | Erm it 's with a view to in fact er Dr 's point that I want to speak . |
| 4 | It 's of a bunch of undertalented and over paid money grabbers who are motivated more by agents than managers . |
| 5 | and you 're at A , let's say , let's say , North is that way , okay , and you you set this up and you have a look , you say , where 's that lighthouse , oh it 's on a bearing of forty five degrees , and a lot later when you 've sailed sort of past the lighthouse , or the lighthouse is behind you , you take a bearing , and you still go around clockwise , |
| 6 | If you are going by train , make sure you know the train times ; it 's on a Sunday , remember . |
| 7 | Yeah it 's on a weekend when everybody comes out here to buy their trees and they 're parking they 're cars on the roundabout |
| 8 | Environmentalists say there 's a high risk of pollution from a new landfill site — because it 's on a layer of chalk . |
| 9 | er if you go to er , er a major store , if you go to Marks and Spencers , somewhere like that , it 's on a return basis , but with the market it 's a little bit here today gone tomorrow |
| 10 | It 's on a slant for some reason ! |
| 11 | cake stand , it 's at the back , it 's on a poster . |
| 12 | It 's on a bit . |
| 13 | We send yellow cards on all sorts of Ter-bin-a-fiene It 's on a day , I 'll give you fifty six . |
| 14 | But it 's on a hill in the , in the , in the , it 's a long way down from there to walk and , and if I remember rightly it was on the outside of the hotel , on a bank and that to me means that erm if we had had some weather , which we had at that time , then the roots could have suffered but the other clue I think is that erm it comes into leaf first and it drops its leaves first in the autumn so maybe it 's a different tree than the other , different variety , because there are several horse chestnuts are n't there ? |
| 15 | It 's on a site next to Hereford Cathedral . |
| 16 | Yes erm er , it 's on a file somewhere . |
| 17 | I think it 's on a par with EIS systems like Pilot ( see panel ) , and we will use it , in due course , to handle exception reporting and that sort of thing . |
| 18 | It makes use of JPEG for bitmapped clip-art and in terms of features it 's on a par with PhotoFinish and CA-Paint . |
| 19 | Yes , well you know , as you come to the Boar 's Head you can , it 's on a crossroads is n't it ? |
| 20 | You ca n't , one flat 's not gon na be responsible for having the hall lit up all night long which it will be and then length of time , unless it 's on a timer switch . |
| 21 | and it 's got like a , a metal thing that comes from it and it 's on a pivot |
| 22 | ' It 's on a table by the pulpit . |
| 23 | Well it 's on , it 's on a Thursday , yeah . |
| 24 | And then it 's not spelt the same way as this when it 's on a boat |
| 25 | so it could go on a separate tape if you wanted that to happen , it 's on a Mazda tape |
| 26 | So changing into the future , you can do it at any time , what it actually means , it 'll affects the next month 's premiums , and switching , er , it 's on a bid to bid basis , from one fund to the other , and we charge them eighteen pounds per occasion . |
| 27 | ‘ Exactly , but I 'm afraid it 's on a need to know basis . |
| 28 | If it 's on a shelf , they want to buy it |
| 29 | The favourite buys overall , appear to be fashion items and electrcial goods , but it seems some shoppers will buy anything if it 's on a shelf . |
| 30 | Oh it 's it it 's on a it 's on erm it 's on a plate so you er I do n't mind I 'm , you know I do n't mind not getting it back for the next month . |