Example sentences of "it be [adv] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Diffusing knowledge and acquiring it are as much an art as a science , processes influenced by variables which can not be measured as much as by those which can . |
| 2 | Well it were n't exactly the school teacher 's fault cos Panda jumped out of the hedge into the lights from the cemetery cos she liked to go mousing up there . |
| 3 | ‘ Well met , Michael Riven , ’ he said quietly , and the words were distorted in his mouth , as though it were not yet the right shape for them . |
| 4 | Canal tours , blue-and-white china , narrow streets — if it were not also a university town it would be merely beautiful . |
| 5 | figure including a space between three lines , is the real as well as nominal essence of a triangle ; it being not only the abstract idea to which the general name is annexed , but the very essentia , or being , of the thing itself , that foundation from which all its properties flow , and to which they are all inseparably annexed . |
| 6 | So it 's rather like a sandwich . |
| 7 | For maybe just a momentary at this moment Mr chairman at this time of day , it 's rather like the carpet salesman saying to the lady , which one do you want , red , blue or green , not whether you want one or not . |
| 8 | er , yes my Lord , there 's the prior point that we er , we would submit as indicated in the skeleton of the eleventh of November that on its true construction , erm the central fund byelaw , article ten in particular er gives rise to a payment of a specified sum , ascertain sum , payable forthwith on demand , it 's rather like the example your Lordship gave of the Barclaycard or the cheque , if my learned friend is right |
| 9 | Erm , there are between sixty and seventy I think it 's probably nearer the sixty end , I keep taking them out , rather than adding them in , okay ? you 'll be pleased to know . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's probably just a phase we 're going through . ’ |
| 11 | It 's probably just a label devised by some journalists to make their job easier . ’ |
| 12 | It 's probably just a holiday . |
| 13 | Track one is a growling , clapping disco song with a peace message , but far better to my ears are ‘ Klangers ’ , a similar groove which sounds like it has in fact got The Klangers on it although it 's probably just a synth , and ‘ The Horns Of Jerricurl ’ ( geddit ? ) which unfolds the depths of their groove and lays bare their sense of humour . |
| 14 | It 's probably just a case of a couple of screws to take the cover off . |
| 15 | it 's probably either the five , oh dear , I do n't know actually , we actually do several P Cs in the |
| 16 | Er I do n't know how many people die of stress related diseases but it 's probably under a hundredth . |
| 17 | That 's just an example of the way that John Ashburton and David Simon run the ship , and I think it 's probably quite a good example of teamwork , too . ’ |
| 18 | Tell me , it 's , it 's probably quite an expensive thing to do in the first place without having to , to , to bring home , home some money for charity in the end , how have you gone about doing it ? |
| 19 | It 's probably only a you know a matter of seconds but it seems a long time . |
| 20 | I also suspect that all the major players will shortly move to 400dpi as their base resolution , it 's probably only a question of waiting for the engine manufacturers to get production rolling for the new CCITT Group IV facsimile standard and then taking the excess . |
| 21 | for people , kids being off , so it 's obvious the rest of the country 's off that week , and so it 's probably only a few limited schools |
| 22 | ‘ It 's probably only the past two or three years that I started to feel comfortable with myself . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's probably only the wife 's roast yesterday , Sister , ’ he said to Rachel almost sheepishly . |
| 24 | And what I will do is to look erm tt in some detail at er an analysis of a man r called Richard Newstat I mentioned last time , Mr Shirley Williams , and Richard Newstat wrote a book in nineteen sixty called Presidential Power and that book is now in whatever , what it is , I do n't know , seventh or eight edition and it 's probably still the single best selling book on the American presidency and er for good reason because it , it , it raises an , an argument which is really quite simple but often neglected . |
| 25 | about this you are wasting your time , er then hopefully you if you are having a problem to come and see me and I can tell you if it is a problem or whether it 's not , it 's not particularly a problem , so you know , come along and see me |
| 26 | Mission accomplished , we head for home , though it 's not just a case of turntail and run as fast as we can . |
| 27 | It gives details of Radio 4 's New Year Day item based on the Lady Chatterley trial , with this note by Michael Green , the controller : ‘ It 's not just a seminal piece of history … ‘ |
| 28 | ‘ It 's not just a patch of grass , it 's a principle at stake , thin end of the wedge . ’ |
| 29 | But it 's not just a ‘ good looker ’ ! |
| 30 | It 's not just a question of having a good old chat about the wild 30's . |