Example sentences of "it [is] [adv] [adj] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course we all need a certain amount in order to exist — and it 's rather nice to have a bit to spare . |
| 2 | It 's rather stupid to have a fat dinner in a cookery book , what ? |
| 3 | ‘ It 's clearly bad to construct a golf course somewhere where there is an existing habitat , or grassland . |
| 4 | What is really going on is they are rigging a system to hide that kind of it 's clearly anonymous to marry a woman who 's your grandmother . |
| 5 | We will watch it very carefully , and it 's pretty hard to detect a pattern , now there 's a , there 's a theme , and that is trying to link the , the Palestine question er into his kind of giving justification for what he did against Kuwait , and yet the logic falls totally flat . |
| 6 | Of course , as Vietnam proved all too clearly , it 's pretty handy to have a war knocking about if you want peace songs to sound like anything other than pathetic , drippy platitudes . |
| 7 | Of course , as Vietnam proved all too clearly , it 's pretty handy to have a war knocking about if you want peace songs to sound like anything other than pathetic , drippy platitudes . |
| 8 | Oh it 's just nice to have a dossy Saturday , know what I mean ? |
| 9 | Well , it 's always erm possible to , to do harm , but it 's also possible to do a lot of good by the interest that 's shown in , in children 's work . |
| 10 | It 's also good to see a British company doing well abroad , with exports as far afield as Europe , USA , Australia , Japan , Taiwan and even New Zealand . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's fucking easy to do an obscure jazz album or some rootsy blues album . |
| 12 | Now it 's jolly difficult to follow an argument of that time when it 's read — I appreciate that — but what I think Darwin is actually saying is this , that it 's true that vertebrates , for example — all vertebrates , from fish to ourselves — have a common pattern of a rigid rod down the middle of the back , segmented muscles either side of it , a mouth at the front , a hollow nerve chord on top , two pairs of fins or legs derived from them , but not three pairs or one pair , but two pairs and so on . |
| 13 | No no working during the week it 's really useful to have a place that 's open on a Sunday . |
| 14 | To be honest it 's really difficult to put a cost to that . |
| 15 | people wo n't adopt because it 's really hard to get a baby . |
| 16 | It 's less easy to match a specific publisher 's market with fiction than with factual writing , but you can at least make sure that you do n't send a modern comedy to a publisher of historical romances . |
| 17 | It 's almost impossible to tail a bike in London unless you 're on a bike yourself , and that 's a definite if it 's rush-hour . |
| 18 | Sipping a gin and tonic and lighting up another Camel cigarette , he says : ‘ It 's almost impossible to find a decent barman in England . |
| 19 | It 's always nice to see a friendly familiar face . |
| 20 | While it 's always nice to know a pony 's background , you can have just as much fun with a Heinz 57 . |
| 21 | Well it 's always nice to keep a clean sheet , you know , especially away from home , but , you know , we just , just get a few League wins and er get the confidence back again . |
| 22 | ‘ Only it 's always nice to have a biscuit with coffee , is n't it , or a choc- ’ Mrs Mentiply broke o Her face slowly compressed into a frown . |
| 23 | ‘ It wo n't make me a better player , ’ added Strachan , ‘ but it 's always nice to get a pat on the back . ’ |
| 24 | It 's always good to have a hit . |
| 25 | It 's not bad to succeed , to excel , and it 's always satisfying to solve a difficulty . |
| 26 | Despite the passion in Glasgow he did not have to show his yellow card once as Rangers won 2-1 and Wilkinson said : ‘ It 's always important to have a good referee , but I 've been pleased with the standard of refereeing this season . ’ |
| 27 | In an older house , it can sometimes be difficult to get the shower tray level but it 's always difficult to get a good and permanent seal between the shower tray and the tiled walls . |
| 28 | It 's always wrong to want a special friendship with someone just so that you feel better about yourself or so that others are impressed . |
| 29 | Anthony Brown is one of the most talented artiest working in children 's books today , and it 's always exciting to see a new book by him . |
| 30 | It 's always exacting to work a patchwork sweater , simply by joining together a group of your test pieces , but a similar idea is to mark out patches on a squared sweater diagram and work a variety of these patterns for a sampler sweater . |