Example sentences of "it be [noun sg] to [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | ) ‘ It is not a beauty , to be sure , ’ Coleridge wrote to Poole on 28 November ; ‘ but it 's vicinity to you shall overbalance it 's Defects . ’ |
2 | It 's afternoon keep saying that it 's afternoon it 's morning to me this afternoon pick up your phone and give me a ring now O nine O four six four one six four one . |
3 | It 's a moving and exciting film and shows off Oxford and it 's countryside to its best advantage . |
4 | It 's news to me ! ’ |
5 | When told how Evans had been rumbled , St Helens chairman Eric Latham said : ‘ It 's news to me — but nothing surprises me anymore . |
6 | But it is Judit to whom the chess world most readily gives the title of genius : last year , aged 13 , she achieved a Grandmaster norm and became the world 's top-ranking woman player . |
7 | For Joanna it is commitment to their lesbian relationship ; Helen is undecided . |
8 | It is testament to her power of control that few people dare talk openly about her . |
9 | It is pleasing that there is a large degree of support for the Southern fire station as I said it was music to my ears . |
10 | It was music to our ears in a hospital staffed by women from both sides of the great Christian divide , and men of that ilk also . |
11 | With his few belongings it was home to him wherever he went . |
12 | He had n't really understood that it was work to her . |
13 | It was agony to him to dismiss her . |
14 | It was news to her , she had been at home all the time and her husband had taken another ‘ wife ’ . |