Example sentences of "it [be] [adj] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These observations suggest that the peak β cell mass may be determined early in life , even during gestation , and the factors that influence it are likely to be important in the development of diabetes . |
| 2 | ‘ Would n't it be terrible to be bad ? ’ he says to her right hip . |
| 3 | Oh absolutely marvellous we watched the house go up brick by brick , you know , we , we used to come down here and think oh my goodness wo n't it be marvellous to be able to run some water and have a bath in the normal way you know cos we do n't , we 'd both always had electricity and baths and everything else until this happened and erm , we er , oh it was wonderful , really wonderful absolutely marvellous |
| 4 | Would n't it be better to be alive , maybe see things like Antoine — or maybe not see things like Antoine . |
| 5 | Would it be enough to be afraid ? |
| 6 | Would n't it be lovely to be rich ? |
| 7 | you know I always said would n't it be lovely to be thin and I said thank God |
| 8 | If it were possible to be clear about what power or general role the House should have , the relations between MPs and the executive could be adjusted accordingly . |
| 9 | It involves beliefs such as ‘ There is n't enough to go round ’ , ‘ I never have enough money ’ , ‘ Money does n't grow on trees ’ , ‘ You have to work hard for what you want ’ , ‘ If I have more , others have less ’ , ‘ Better save for a rainy day ’ and ‘ It 's immoral to be rich when so many people are starving and homeless . ’ |
| 10 | It 's better to be alone when the planes come . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ But it 's better to be safe than sorry . |
| 12 | You 've thought about it — for maybe a whole five seconds — but before you give him the thumbs up , runs these ten questions by him — it 's better to be safe than sorry . |
| 13 | It 's better to be safe than sorry — especially at Christmas , as consultant microbiologist Dr Liz Scott tells promotions executive Elizabeth Ollier ( left ) in the BBC Good Food kitchen |
| 14 | Yeah how much effect it does have I do n't know because where but I think it 's it 's really basis you know it 's better to be safe than sorry . |
| 15 | Manufacturers do put static protection devices on chips so the problem is nowhere near as bad as it was but it 's better to be safe than out of pocket . |
| 16 | He says that the message to doctors is : if there 's any suggestion of meningococcal meningitis use penicillin — it 's better to be safe than sorry . |
| 17 | Angel tools around London in a black cab , getting into scrapes and surviving by his first rule of life : ‘ It 's better to be lucky than good ’ . |
| 18 | It had been a fifty-fifty chance , but it 's better to be lucky than good . |
| 19 | It 's better to be lucky than good . |
| 20 | Still ( Rule of Life No. 1 ) , it 's better to be lucky than good . |
| 21 | As it 's possible to be backward compatible but not forward compatible , you ca n't blame the program for being unable to correctly identify a processor introduced after the program was written . |
| 22 | It 's possible to be sad about your babies becoming children , and yet accept the fact that you wo n't have any more . |
| 23 | Sibling rows can be beneficial because they show that it 's possible to be angry with someone you love , but there 's a vital difference between that sort of infighting and the division that favouritism can cause . |
| 24 | Then it 's sure to be true . |
| 25 | There is a tedious pounding at the heart of this music , a sincerity that allows for only one angle of delivery , a passion that has created a pop atmosphere in which it 's impossible to be clever , cool or cynical , a soul whose impulse is NOT to embrace the avant-garde , like Faustus , and be cut into a thousand pieces by a sampling machine . |
| 26 | I 'd say he was dead by eleven but it 's impossible to be accurate about these things . |
| 27 | It 's impossible to be sure what fate befell the mightiest Orc Warlord of all time , but whatever became of him his reputation and memory lives on . |
| 28 | That 's why it 's impossible to be prescriptive about how you should allocate your own time — and that 's why it 's essential that you learn how best to manage your time for yourself . |
| 29 | M. You seem to think it 's right to be wrong . |
| 30 | I was never any good at lecturing so it 's nice to be good at something . ’ |