Example sentences of "it be [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I did n't work hard enough at marriage — it 's remained a huge sadness to me ’ |
| 2 | Roger Kelly is convinced that there are enough people to invest in the centre : ‘ Five years ago this would have been a pipe-dream , but with the rise of the ethical investment movement it 's become a real possibility . |
| 3 | It 's become a major part of my job . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's become a big problem , bigger than just the problem facing us , ’ said a Williams team insider last night . |
| 5 | It 's become a life-long commitment , although I 'm not complaining . |
| 6 | And in recent weeks it 's become a daily chore , as more and more birds have been brought in from the nearby Gloucester Sharpness canal . |
| 7 | It 's made a great thoroughfare in the dining area and broken the dining area up a bit . |
| 8 | She says that it 's made a great difference , the swan can now struggle to it 's feet . |
| 9 | And it 's made a lovely edging for a wooden tray , coated in varnish once the paste is dry . , . |
| 10 | It 's understood a new report will say there 's no evidence it works better than traditional methods . |
| 11 | It 's cost a vast amount of money and time . |
| 12 | Bizarre though the synchro-energy system might sound , it 's touched a raw nerve among jaded New Yorkers worn out by a decade of hard , hyped-up materialistic living . |
| 13 | PETER Mandelson gave Labour the red rose and it 's said a whole new bloom to its image . |
| 14 | Well , we have one central area to put these things in , and it 's called a small black samsonite bag , and they just get , it 's just hopeless |
| 15 | You call it , I think it 's called a maxi-dowment plan . |
| 16 | They do another sort and that 's really nice , it 's called a nutty Vera |
| 17 | That is it for this week , so er hope you enjoyed it , join us next Friday for another er burning hot series of debates er another three ring circus , it 's called A Central Weekend . |
| 18 | It 's called a Bubbly Jock |
| 19 | It 's called a Qualitative Data Review form no it 's called a Qualitative Research Review form so what 's this in the something else . |
| 20 | It 's called a Qualitative Data Review form no it 's called a Qualitative Research Review form so what 's this in the something else . |
| 21 | It 's called a back-to-back , and er the insurance company issue two , two contracts . |
| 22 | The P G C is a difficult course to fill , really , for the people who are organising it , because although it 's called a one-year course , in fact it lasts eight months in practice , and there are so many aspects that have to be fitted in something has to go . |
| 23 | Assertion comes into being when you still bring the conversation back this is what I want nothing else will do , and bringing it right the way back all the time to discuss what it is why it 's called a broken record exercise , we 'll give it a quick go now . |
| 24 | Its a sort of signature — you can recognise that particular kind of star — it 's called a sephied variable , and we know how bright that is and so we can use that to get distances to nearby galaxies . |
| 25 | It 's cast a terrible gloom over everything . ’ |
| 26 | It 's seemed a funny day . |
| 27 | They 're based on nativity scenes taken from stained glass windows , and for at least one local church it 's meant a thousand-pound Christmas bonus . |
| 28 | Britain 's biggest flower show opened today , but for some people it 's meant a special outing for the last two weeks . |
| 29 | It 's proved a good way of picking up and pigeonholing the plight of the young middle classes living in a country in retreat . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's taken a long time for the guilt to surface . ’ |