Example sentences of "it [be] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Has it been noisy or not ?
2 Animals are no strangers to ‘ technology ’ and some of the ways in which they use it are surprising as well as being remarkably sophisticated .
3 How , therefore , can it be stupid or less good than another 's experience ?
4 How soon will it be full or too heavy to carry ?
5 I thought that he could have telephoned me if it were unobtainable but apparently he had n't bothered , and the sheet music was indeed not to be had .
6 Although the limb is three-dimensional I will treat it as if it were two-dimensional and only consider position with respect to two axes , the antero-posterior axis which runs across the limb from digit 2 to digit 4 , and the long , or proximo-distal axis , which runs from the shoulder to the tip of the digits .
7 " I would n't know , " said Clara , " whether it were bad or not .
8 but at the beginning of the morning it were cold and then it went warmer
9 We were lucky last week cos half of us have got netball , half of us have got hockey , but last week because it was raining it was too bad for the hockey people to go out cos they co , with it being dark as well so we , we just stayed inside .
10 It 's annoying that though in n it ?
11 It 's annoying and yet it was better than a p
12 It 's freezing as well .
13 Now , of those sixty five who would like to say something about their experience , whether it 's , it 's present or past ?
14 At the close of business , the one hundred index had managed to rally from it 's low but still ended down 30.3 points at 2064 and volly remained light with only 379 million shares traded .
15 Well actually I live just outside Shilton. erm they keep saying that it 's Shilton airfield , actually it 's not on the airfield at all — as you will know , Mr. Hayworth 's got planning permission for a golf course on the airfield — it 's Scrubs Lane , Shilton , and actually they 've already the Council have already turned down two applications for caravan sites there anyway erm because it 's unsuitable and yet they think that they you know that it 's going to be suitable for gipsies to live down there .
16 Derelict cars parked in back alleys with their windscreens bashed in — you can climb in through the front and then over to the back , it 's dry and quite clean and the fuzz never think to look .
17 Oh , well it 's dry and very cold and er and bright periods
18 It 's ironical that only last week the National Association of Private Residential Homes were saying that they will be going bust as a result of inadequate funding .
19 ‘ Regarding my love for Soon-Yi — it 's real and happily all true , ’ he admitted .
20 lost something and I ca n't , I ca n't find it and I 'm looking and I 'm , and ee , and er , a bit of a noise or anything I 'm looking backwards is coming and then I realize he 's not there any more to come and then other days I just feel like I 'm dangling in the air and can see the , the ground and I ca n't touch it with my feet , just somewhere right , right out , it 's not real , not real you know and then you go , you get back to with a bump and know that it 's real and then it just feels left , nothing else , you ca n't help yourself in any other way .
21 It 's ironic that indeed he knew ’ , Poindexter said afterwards .
22 It 's not just an aesthetic matter , it 's practical as well .
23 Er it 's small but well it 's a reasonable kitchen
24 but it , it is it 's firm but not hard hard .
25 Thank you Chairman , on the recommendation four one three erm it says the same standard of service erm I imagine that 's the minimum of exceptional level of service , I mean it 's sad that no longer do we ever talk about
26 It 's sad that so many of the people I 'm interested in are no longer around .
27 It 's sad but not surprising
28 So that if you have this view up , you can see whether it 's selected or not .
29 No , it 's confidential and properly cos she 'll want some of it back .
30 ‘ I do n't know if it 's confidential or not … ’
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