Example sentences of "[adv] it [be] a [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps it 's a lesson we should all learn . ’ |
| 2 | Perhaps it 's a one-off you made yourself or had made for you , or maybe you run up spectacular gowns as a matter of course . |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps it is a habit we share , this business of vaulting to easy conclusions . ’ |
| 4 | Perhaps it is an honour he has found hard to bear , for he has been acting very strangely even by his own standards . |
| 5 | Well I thought perhaps it was a bit what was wrapped up |
| 6 | When Mark Proctor volleyed the ball against the bar in the first half perhaps it was a sign it was not going to be Boro 's night . |
| 7 | which is something like speed , only it 's a bit it 's got a direction . |
| 8 | So it is a commitment it 's not just for , oh I 'd like to have a go . |
| 9 | So it 's a distance they 've got away from the start . |
| 10 | So , for example , in that first one the longest chain you 've got is a three so it 's a derivative it 's an oxy derivative of propane . |
| 11 | So it 's a risk you have to calculate . |
| 12 | So it was a desire she had to deny . |
| 13 | We had some very , very moving speeches yesterday , as we had had at previous meetings , which made it quite clear that a few pounds were vital and crucial to people 's lives , so we thought it was a a gesture that was worth making , and I have to say that probably our group also includes people on , as members , as Councillors , who are themselves on income support , so it was a move which was n't without it 's personal difficulties for us either . |
| 14 | Cut inside it was a hole which was at ground level . |
| 15 | But nevertheless it is an application which is necessary , British Coal at the end of the day would have been delighted not to make it after all . |
| 16 | Now , ready to leave for her afternoon and evening 's fun she thought it unlikely that she would meet anyone she knew in Fleet Street , or even up West with Rose , and anyway it was a chance which she was prepared to take , for she intended her little excursion to be the basis of yet another article . |
| 17 | The ‘ ship ’ is therefore dwarfed by the size of the ocean which is post-school education and training ; moreover it is an ocean which over the last ten or so years has been in unprecedented turmoil culminating in the hurricane represented by the 1988 Education Reform Act . |
| 18 | In one sense it is a simplification , but also it is a clarification which is intended to provide understanding and prediction . |
| 19 | Hence it is a duty which every race owes to itself , and to the human family as well , to cultivate by every possible means its own strength ; directly it falls behind in the regard it pays to this duty … it incurs a penalty which Natural Selection , the stern but beneficent tyrant of the organic world , will assuredly exact , and that speedily , to the full . |
| 20 | At the time I dismissed this but later it was a piece which fitted the puzzle . ’ |
| 21 | Inevitably it was a transaction which disturbed many of Audebert of La Marche 's neighbours , and especially his distant kinsmen , the Lusignans and Taillefers . |
| 22 | So we can keep the name Shakespeare and er we can keep the er tea towel trade and Stratford-on-Avon , though it is a pity what 's happened to the R S C is n't it , and maybe out of these ashes will rise a new Royal de Vere Company , one never knows . . |
| 23 | Now it 's a system you go through if you break the law , you know we have an education system which is organised for us by our local community who builds the school , who runs the school , who 's on the governors of those schools . |
| 24 | Now it 's a town which is struggling to attract trade . |
| 25 | Experts are all agreed that it must emerge somewhere — the National Rivers Authority is monitoring likely places but so far it 's a question which remains unanswered . |
| 26 | Experts are all agreed that it must emerge somewhere — the National Rivers Authority is monitoring likely places but so far it 's a question which remains unanswered . |
| 27 | Experts are all agreed that it must emerge somewhere — the National Rivers Authority is monitoring likely places but so far it 's a question which remains unanswered . |
| 28 | Experts are all agreed that it must emerge somewhere — the National Rivers Authority is monitoring likely places but so far it 's a question which remains unanswered . |
| 29 | More often it is a grandmother who is remembered as a ‘ guiding influence . ’ |
| 30 | Very often it is a plant which grows readily at hand . |