Example sentences of "[verb] it [be] [adj] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quote of the week is from Don Johnson : ‘ They say it 's lonely at the top , but it 's lonely at the bottom and in the middle too . ’ |
| 2 | That provision was placed in the contingency because it was un felt it was unclear at the time , what the effect on costs would be , of the sale of link waste . |
| 3 | I suppose it 's inevitable at a time like this , but now that the Inquiry has been set up my firm advice to everybody is er stop propagating rumours and er give any information which you think is relevant to the Inquiry . |
| 4 | I suppose it was good at the time that I was n't kissing Andrew , otherwise I would have had a mouthful of sick . |
| 5 | One of Oggie 's sons , Toby , or not Toby ( well , I thought it was funny at the time … never mind … ) is very disobedient . |
| 6 | I mean it 's empty at the moment if anybody 's got any suggestions or thoughts about what we can do with it it 's certainly er we I I would like to hear those . |
| 7 | But for the sport 's elite there 's no doubting it 's tough at the top . |
| 8 | Er thank you Chairman erm th that is one of the Liberal resolutions that we can get it is important at the sorry to give evidence of the alternative viewpoint and , and that is the case in , in opposing er for those who are opposing that er terminal five . |
| 9 | Well , I , I think it 's a sound idea , I think it 's sad at a time of local government reorganization when we 're likely to see authorities getting smaller , and yet the , the issues wo n't get any smaller , and the new authorities may well be having to look at ways of getting together with their neighbours to look at strategies which cover areas of the sort of size of the old county areas , and also getting together to , to , to meet , erm , organizations which will still on county-size boundaries , like Techs , and , and similar . |
| 10 | I do n't know , there 's this house , what 's falling apart like , and it , it was small , it was like , I think it was wide at the . |
| 11 | Simply used as a marketing term , to designate a fashionable commodity , it might also have appealed to publishers , had it been available at the time , as a packaging for the wave of fiction that followed in the tracks of Eco and Calvino in the early and mid-1980s , and for which no better epithet could be found than ‘ new ’ or ‘ young ’ ( despite a number of its representatives being somewhat less than youthful ) . |
| 12 | It was just on a minute on page seventy-nine , I think we want to get the support of local M Ps , one a has I think , has been just indicated , is contradictory , it might be better to say , ‘ although the document indicated that local authorities would be expected to undertake extra , an extra , or extra duties , the resources needed are , no indication was given of how there would be extra resources , or something like that , you see it 's contradictory at the moment , it says there 's no indication of the role , and then says that they would need resources , and actually if you look through the document , you will see from time-to-time it is indicated what local authorities are expected to do , for instance recycling of litter and the lot , and I think that that might be actually picked up by M P's and say , ‘ Well , what actually have you , do you mean to say ’ , well , what we 're really saying , are we not , that here is an indication of things that we 're expected to do , but as usual , of course , the government has n't indicated what erm where the resources were coming from . |