Example sentences of "it [is] [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's caused premature ejaculation and has ruined my sex life . ’ |
| 2 | It 's become common practice for babies to be placed on their mother 's stomach immediately after birth but many hospitals still have a policy of removing the baby within the first half hour for measuring and weighing . |
| 3 | It 's believed warm weather has led to a build up of botulism bacteria in the canal . |
| 4 | Now it 's hoped future generations will leave statistics like that behind . |
| 5 | It 's not a miracle cure , but it 's hoped American trials prove it can slow down the onset of Aids . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's turned full circle , has n't it ? |
| 7 | During its time in Oxfordshire it 's seen active duty most recently in the Gulf War . |
| 8 | He says that if it 's given regular pruning there 's no reason why it should n't live for a few hundred years more . |
| 9 | Drama is a piece of literature that only works when it 's given threedimensional form . |
| 10 | It 's done funny things to my head . |
| 11 | It 's called mutual respect and it 's the opposite of subordination . |
| 12 | It 's called Revolutionary Youth . ’ |
| 13 | It 's called rape , it 's called indecent assault , it 's it 's um er understood in the same way that sex crimes against adults are understood and erm if you look at um y'know kind of er very young kinds um according to some people called Daley and Wilson , I ca n't remember whether I 've mentioned these on the handout but I 've I 've got some notes here . |
| 14 | And it 's called Fancy Goods |
| 15 | It 's called Fancy Goods . |
| 16 | erm it 's an old one and it 's called Fancy Fish and we were sorting our videos out to list 'em and then we 'll make a list and then we 'd let you have and then if you want a video and that , you know what you got and we were looking through this Fancy Fish and it 's erm I do n't know if you remember it , it shows an open show at Oxford |
| 17 | It 's called Penal Island , thirty miles from Koraloona . |
| 18 | Er , sir , at the risk of straying slightly into into two B , you , do forgive me in advance , but you raised the specific point about size , and and erm there was er one or two statements that there is n't a a clear view on size in P P G three , I think it 's important to bear in mind the interrelationship between all P P G s and as Mr Curtis said , the research that that backs them up , and I I I point you to three quotes in the statement that C P R E have put in , erm i i i paragraph four point one seven , an and s the quote that attaches to that is taken from the research that erm er backs up draft revised P P G thirteen , transport , and erm I shall quote from that on this question of size , i it is also evident that smaller settlements , those with populations of less than fifty thousand , but particularly very small settlements are characteristically less transport emissions efficient than larger settlements , I think the the erm essence of of that particular piece of research is not as Mr Davis was implying to achieve totally self contained settlements , I do n't believe such a concept exists , it 's actually erm a planning land use in the long term to reduce C O two emi emissions something that is essential now to government policy , I think perhaps more instructive though is is the quote that I 've in included in paragraph four point one nine and that 's taken from er er this book here which I perhaps should submit the whole chapter in evidence to the panel , I 've only just included one quote , it 's it 's I suggest one of the more interesting reads that you may have as a result of this panel , it 's by Colin Ward , and it 's called New Town , Home Town , it 's undertaken by er , sorry includes some of the work that 's been undertaken by the University of Reading , erm and er David Lock Associates , on erm er new town research , and this this is due to be published by H M S O shortly , it 's unfortunate that it was n't available in time for this E I P , but I think erm , if you 'll bear with me , I will read out the quote that I put in four point one nine , because I feel that it is useful on this question of of size , we concluded that if you are interested in environmental impact , energy conser consumption , and sustainability , new settlements have to reach a certain size to be worthwhile , it 's parallel to the old arguments that used to take place around self containment in new towns , we found that new settlements of much less than five thousand houses , that 's about fourteen thousand people are not really worthwhile because if they are smaller than that you are simply putting a housing estate in the countryside , a phrase that that has already been put round this morning , it appears that the best minimum for a new settlement , the best minimum , is about ten thousand houses , that 's that 's twenty five thousand people , which as it happens is about the size of the original garden cities . |
| 19 | Yeah , cos it 's called Early Learning Centre . |
| 20 | It 's called living assurance , launched August ninety eight , for Standard Life Assurance and Wallace . |
| 21 | Er the h it 's called hyperbaric oxygen . |
| 22 | It 's called hyperbaric therapy and most users believe it relieves their symptoms and can even stop the illness , although it wo n't cure it . |
| 23 | Yes lovely , amino acids , right , it 's one particular amino acid there are eight essential amino , amino acids and it 's one of these and it 's called venial alanine you do n't have to remember that , it 's very difficult to , to remember . |
| 24 | it 's called firm time holiday |
| 25 | It 's called interactive television . |
| 26 | It 's called Dynamic Stiffness and , claim Prince , the principle is very simple ; the greater the dynamic force ( hard swing ) the stiffer the racket becomes for maximum power while the gentler the dynamic force ( soft swing ) the more relaxed the racket becomes for optional touch . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's called Foxy Lady . ’ |
| 28 | It 's called Green Fields . |
| 29 | It tells you ho it 's called potential volts , measures potential . |
| 30 | It 's here , it 's called Thirsty Camel and it 's the first spring water for men ! |