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 ’ .
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