Example sentences of "it [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | it 's underneath . |
| 2 | I know that , but it 's underneath . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It 's blummin difficult . |
| 5 | It 's blummin freezing and the pavements are a bit slippy so we have to walk careful like . |
| 6 | It 's blummin enormous inside — I did n't expect nothing like this . |
| 7 | I do n't want to go out — it 's blummin freezing outside , but I ai n't got no choice . |
| 8 | It 's blummin horrible I reckon . |
| 9 | It 's rather marvellous , really , when you think about it . ’ |
| 10 | It 's rather ironic , really , when you think about it . ’ |
| 11 | He began explaining , straight on , then first right , on to the second set of lights … etcetera … etcetera … it 's rather a long walk , sir , he concluded . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's rather difficult for me to show my face at Brigade H.Q at the moment , ’ I replied . |
| 13 | ‘ A pleasant , cheerful FO character said [ 30 October ] : ‘ It 's rather fun to be at No. 10 the night we smashed the Anglo-American alliance . ’ ’ |
| 14 | It 's rather like pond life — little tadpoles eating even smaller ones and bigger ones eating them . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's rather a long way , though . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's rather fanciful to think you will be able to walk into a solicitor 's office in Carlisle , engage one lawyer , then argue your case up to the highest court in the land . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm afraid it 's rather a delicate matter . ’ |
| 18 | And yet it 's rather cold-blooded . |
| 19 | Frankly , it 's rather spooky . |
| 20 | It 's rather distinguished , lots of the best people are . |
| 21 | ‘ For the first time in many a year , I 'm able to take my time and I must say , it 's rather an enjoyable experience . |
| 22 | Yet , I am not writing about him for the above reasons , it 's rather on account of an unlikely weakness of his than for one of his many strengths . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's rather nice ! ’ |
| 24 | It 's just that I am so evil and perverted and encrusted with slime that it 's rather difficult for me to remember the fact . ’ |
| 25 | Of course we all need a certain amount in order to exist — and it 's rather nice to have a bit to spare . |
| 26 | And it 's rather a good thing this one did look like a tramp , ’ she added , ‘ because you might not have talked to him if you had n't mistaken him for a poor old man , and he would n't have learned anything about Brownies , and we should n't be going to continue to enjoy the use of his lovely Park . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's rather illogical ’ , she points out , ‘ to have a school with no water . ’ |
| 28 | It 's rather like a computer when the disc goes wrong — you know the info is there but you ca n't tap into it . |
| 29 | It 's rather like the scene that I penned at the beginning of this column . |
| 30 | It 's rather a tight fit , ’ she said apologetically , and the woman beamed at her . |