Example sentences of "it [is] an [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As one complained : ‘ It 's an awfully long time to sit there . |
| 2 | Listen , I tell you , I tell you what Mrs , it 's an awfully bad line . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's an awfully long joke , ’ says Miriam . |
| 4 | It 's an awfully jolly name , you know . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's an intensely personal matter . |
| 6 | It 's much big it 's a , it 's it 's a , it 's an incredibly wide sample opinion poll . |
| 7 | It 's an incredibly beautiful and fragile piece of your body , Mr Blake . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's an easy enough error to have made , ’ I said with a small smile . |
| 9 | It 's an amazingly heady concoction made from a good old bottle of Gordon 's , or whatever your favourite make happens to be , sloshed all over the fruits of the sloe ( blackthorn ) bush . |
| 10 | It 's not an and situation , it 's an ei it 's an either or situation . |
| 11 | It 's an exceptionally adaptable wine . |
| 12 | It 's an easily digestible |
| 13 | Erm so basically it 's not just er a threat to the the actual market in general it 's an even more acute threat to individual places within that market . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's an even greater pity that you could n't have told me about Ling 's day off , ’ she flared at him . |
| 15 | I I have to say that we we I I we just we just see that we point out to people it 's an even bigger po position of trust . |
| 16 | So it 's an unashamedly Pagan fertility festival ? |
| 17 | It 's an uncomfortably astute remark . |
| 18 | ‘ I think it 's an extraordinarily interesting idea , ’ he said . |
| 19 | It 's an almost monastic existence . |
| 20 | There are dozens of them , some with very good outdoors and walking sections and it 's an unusually restrained visitor who leaves without a few extra pounds in the backpack . |
| 21 | I suppose because one is so helpless , there 's nothing you can do if anything goes wrong and it 's an awful long way down . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's an absolutely instinctive reaction — if a child falls you pick it up , ’ she said . |
| 23 | He said on the Brian Hayes Show : ‘ It 's an absolutely appalling place … they are covered from head to foot in freckles and have red hair . ’ |
| 24 | So it 's an absolutely brilliant product . |
| 25 | It 's an absolutely crazy idea . |
| 26 | It 's an absolutely brilliant place I 'll probably get to Cambridge or Oxford or somewhere nice . ’ |
| 27 | O K , I think that , it 's an absolutely fantastic system , please capitalise on it . |
| 28 | It 's an absolutely fascinating thing to do , because they always have so much to offer — the people who are visiting from abroad — you learn an awful lot about them . |
| 29 | We did cover that yesterday because obviously it 's an absolutely crucial point , and when we do a one-day course , we actually make people do one minute against the clock . |
| 30 | But when you use it , it 's an entirely different matter ! |