Example sentences of "[is] [adj] [pron] be [conj] " in BNC.
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1 | I said , that 's right it 's and there was a narrow road , yes . |
2 | Of course , that 's right it 's cos it 's got it on the . |
3 | He also failed to protect his people : if anything is clear it is that , and it can not have increased his popularity . |
4 | this is , this is sad I am and how worried I 've been this has been round my neck ! |
5 | And monitoring is all it is as we can not prosecute . |
6 | But he said : ‘ Monitoring is all it is as we can not prosecute . |
7 | A brief structural guide is all I 'm after … and then my tutor wo n't kill me and give me bad references for being a lazy git ( which I admittedly am ) ( This was supposed to be in last july ! ! ! ) |
8 | And force him to ask the same questions of his life , and to reply : This is all there is and it is enough . |
9 | A later Murdoch novel , The Sea , the Sea ( 1978 ) , explores in the same unblinking fashion an aspect of human selfhood from another angle : its ageing hero , living cheerfully for himself and cooking dishes that hardly anyone else would want to eat , suddenly rediscovers a lost love , is deranged enough to kidnap her , fails to regain her love in captivity and is forced to accept , by the end , that his old self-sufficient life is all there is or can ever be . |
10 | Kids , that 's all they were and in need of a bit of looking-after . |
11 | See during the war we had , we had a lot of er minesweepers down here and they were all in these trawlers , fishing trawlers that 's all they were and they used to go minesweeping off the coast , from here to Yarmouth and then , and Yarmouth and Lowestoft they had theirs , they used to like meet and cos they used to be out four days minesweeping and in four days . |
12 | It 's a printer comput it 's a P C that 's all it is and that 's what the despatch . |
13 | As far as I 'm concerned that 's all it was and it 's all a big mistake . ’ |
14 | ‘ I will keep calling you boy , because that 's all you are and I repeat , I forbid you to go into Newcastle with Mick Smith . |
15 | But what 's aggrieved me is that he 's just waltzed off with it and not |