Example sentences of "it [be] a [noun] [prep] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's a comedy with lots of good songs and is very entertaining , ’ she said . |
| 2 | This is Radio Nottingham it 's a quarter past one at these are the clues for Kids ' County what are they on about here ? |
| 3 | It 's a workbench with lots of vices that will grip either straight or irregular shapes equally well . |
| 4 | If you 've got to act , you 've got to act , there 's no sense about it , it 's a question of something inside you compelling you , not letting you do anything else — the stage is your life , you do n't care about pay or conditions or — ’ I dried up . |
| 5 | It 's a bit like somebody sort of can only just about kick a ball and you say , We 'll make him our centre forward . |
| 6 | Yes it 's a noun , it 's a name of something is n't it ? |
| 7 | Because it 's , it 's a service for everyone , as long as everybody gets the same |
| 8 | Yes , I wanted to emphasise the way some men feel constrain before , not because I want to suggest it 's now becoming a problem for men and we should be worrying about them , but because you asked what prospects there were for doing something about it and I think if something 's to be done about it , and it 's a problem of everyone devising new standards of behaviour , it 's very important that quite large numbers of men should be prepared to play a part in trying to work out what these standards should be , and there is quite substantial interest in trying to do that , both at the level of the teaching staff at the university and at the level of the undergraduates . |
| 9 | And he 's a , he 's something framed up in the room there , I have n't it 's a certificate for something they 've got from school , and he 's that framed and up in his room . |
| 10 | And Carrie said , ‘ Yes , it 's a comfort to everybody to know they have your prayers . ’ |
| 11 | It 's a matter for someone 's own conscience how they cope with illness , publicly or privately , but to say that in life Freddie did anything to publicise the agony of AIDS is bullshit . |
| 12 | I hate it , I al I always get really paranoid with people I get off with cos I always think it 's a dare from someone . |
| 13 | it 's a copy of something in America . |
| 14 | Gower , who will be going to India as a commentator for BSkyB and could find himself being called up in case of injury , said : ‘ It 's a boost to one 's morale to know people care . ’ |
| 15 | But very often I think tabloid journalism is interesting in terms of language because it 's very punchy it 's succinct because i i in some of our terms you might find people into a three minute reader and a thirty minute reader because in attention span and intellectual capacity are quite different but to actually condense something into meaningful short bursts , even if they are politically biased actually requires a certain amount of skill I would suspect the clarity index which I ca n't find is the process that I mentioned the other night where you take erm some people call it the fog index a correct me if I 'm wrong in my figures , but I think it 's a piece of something like two hundred or three hundred words you count the number of suc erm colons and full stops or is it only full stops ? |
| 16 | er if it 's a city with lots of cars running |
| 17 | Do you think it 's a front for something ? |
| 18 | It is a must for everyone with strategic , economic and political interests in the Arab Gulf . |
| 19 | The answer to the second question must surely be that if there is a trust at all ( which is the first question ) , then because of the word omnia it is a trust of everything Pamphilus receives . |
| 20 | The human subject is conceived in terms of an essential , intrinsic lack ; it is a fragment of something larger and more primordial , whose existence is dominated by the desire to recover its missing complement ( The Subject of Semiotics , 152 ) . |
| 21 | It is a longing for something that can not happen . |
| 22 | Myopia , or short-sightedness , is the 24-year-old Liverpudlian 's problem — if indeed it is a problem for someone with 15 professional wins , all but one inside the distance , and one draw . |
| 23 | A problem , after all , is only so if it is a problem to someone . |
| 24 | In addition to the defences above , it is a defence for anyone charged under the Consumer Protection Act to show that he took all reasonable steps and exercised all due diligence to avoid committing the offence , section 39 . |
| 25 | It is a waste of everyone 's time because it is just a case of sour grapes as we were losing . |
| 26 | It is a crisis of everything which served us in the past but which is no longer tenable today . |
| 27 | It is a version of something we all know now , and largely thanks to them . |
| 28 | I 'd like to be able to overcome that feeling that it was a problem to everybody else . |
| 29 | It was a photo-opportunity for everyone but only because they genuinely wanted to be there , and to have their picture taken . |
| 30 | It was a credit to everybody and the people of Merseyside who put the finishing touches to everything with their overwhelming support . |