Example sentences of "it [is] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If somebody beats you up and you feel hurt and upset and it 's enormously painful then you need to go to casualty afterwards erm that sort of fits the scripts y'know that 's w that 's that 's understandable . |
| 2 | It 's blummin freezing and the pavements are a bit slippy so we have to walk careful like . |
| 3 | I do n't want to go out — it 's blummin freezing outside , but I ai n't got no choice . |
| 4 | It 's blummin difficult . |
| 5 | It 's blummin horrible I reckon . |
| 6 | It 's blummin enormous inside — I did n't expect nothing like this . |
| 7 | It 's rather dusty , though … |
| 8 | They 've only been elected to nineteen ninety two , so they 're , they 're really , what there doing there forcing people to take some action now , because at Kathy says , she 's afraid of being left out , if there should be a , another Tory Government , so a lot of people are in the same position , they will be putting in eh , I think they just call it best of interest , not a proper application , but then if the whole lot , hundreds of us come along , which is quite likely they will , the Government will say well this proves that everybody wants to become you see , so it 's rather clever move , erm , as , as far as I 'm concerned , what 's happening with that she is eh here within the hospital , the consultant 's and the worker 's in the hospital . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's rather nice ! ’ |
| 10 | Of course we all need a certain amount in order to exist — and it 's rather nice to have a bit to spare . |
| 11 | in seeing this house , because it 's , well we think it 's rather nice er , you know it 's quite a |
| 12 | It 's rather nice to think that it happened in that way , that it was done overnight . |
| 13 | You do n't have to have sand but it 's rather nice . |
| 14 | It 's rather nice that ! |
| 15 | but um I 'm a great believer that it 's rather nice to have that going on while the event is going on you know you sit and munch a corned beef butty as you dribble your coffee down the front of your shirt |
| 16 | Er but i you know it 's rather nice actually . |
| 17 | An elderly lady , this weekend actually , i it sounds funny but it 's rather serious what she said actually . |
| 18 | For instance , I think it 's , I think it 's rather pointless to be preaching er values outside an organisation , if ones not following those values within the organisation . |
| 19 | of course , erm , James Hunt , but er , yes , it 's rather sad as well that , you know , the last few years of erm , Danny 's life were , were , were , he was so crippled with Alzheimer 's and , and really not er , er shade of the sort of happy , er person , that , that he had been . |
| 20 | After all it 's not a it 's rather sad . |
| 21 | Once upon a time you used to have a five year planning period , and that has now disappeared , so we live hand to mouth , and the Finance Officer manages marvellously in juggling things round , but one can no longer plan as one used to , and therefore it 's rather sad really , because people no longer have the chance to develop things as they would wish to . |
| 22 | Well , thank you very much , this is quite historic really , the last training session in the John Hall room , it 's rather sad ! |
| 23 | It 's rather curious that . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's rather early to tell , ’ she said . |
| 25 | It 's rather marvellous , really , when you think about it . ’ |
| 26 | It 's rather crafty and they 're gon na do it every night . |
| 27 | ‘ On the contrary , it 's rather expensive . |
| 28 | It 's rather surprising to you , but they used to sell them in Woolworths for sixpence . |
| 29 | But it 's rather surprising that is n't it cos er a a lot of these er songs that you sing actually came from America . |
| 30 | Maybe the dragon 's lost its old fire , maybe it 's an endangered species , maybe it 's rather timid . |