Example sentences of "[is] [adj] and it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's big , it 's loud and it wears an ill-fitting suit : more ‘ youth ’ telly inanity on REMOTE CONTROL before NME 's own kings of pestilence Collins and Maconie perform more of their light-hearted haircuts , sorry , comic turns for MARK GOODIER . |
| 2 | Right now the gossip in the town is that Ingrid is pregnant and it looks as though Olive King is about to become a star … about time too ! |
| 3 | It is eternal and it illuminates despair . |
| 4 | And I think it 's great , and it 's uniformed and it 's played at the opening of , of the Fire Service technical college at Morton March , it was invited to play there with the other bands and erm before the Queen , and er so it 's , it 's gone on , from strength to strength and we are very proud of it , we really are . |
| 5 | A copy of the 1991 Census datasets will be deposited at the ESRC Data Archive ( where it will join the data from previous Censuses ) when the data is complete and it appears that all corrections have been made . |
| 6 | Secondly , as mentioned before , Hindu society is patrilineal and it follows a rigid system of caste distinction . |
| 7 | Like most labels , it 's amusing and it 's slick and it tells about a hundredth part of the story . |
| 8 | If it is pushed at the wrong point of the swinging cycle , the motion is upset and it tends to stop . |
| 9 | His output is prodigious and it springs from the unbending control he exercises over every aspect of his life . |
| 10 | The Commission is multi-disciplinary and it exists to provide independent medical opinions to consent to treatment ; to keep the powers of detention under review ; to prepare a Code of Practice ; and to visit and interview detained patients and investigate individual complaints . |
| 11 | It has beautiful purple and green plumage , but its voice is strident and it threshes its wings frantically overhead when in the presence of any other murder victim , crying ‘ Ishkoonee ! ’ |
| 12 | He said , like coming to this well for your jug of water every day it 's alright while i , the jug , there 's some in the jug , but when you 've drunk it all the jug 's empty and it does n't do a thing for you ! |
| 13 | ‘ But the language of our Parliament is English and it seems only right that any hospitality I give should be in English too . ’ |
| 14 | Well , in the beginning , erm , this is an interview before they start rehearsing one evening , or like , what they each other play , and they 're just talking about how they met and everything , cos they , the vocalist and the guitarist met in a chip shop , and knocked all the chips everywhere , and then he er , the guitarist talks about , erm , he met , I mean , he knows a drummer that 's free and it turns out that it 's the vo vocalist 's vocalist 's brother . |
| 15 | The method is simple and it relies on the duck 's instinct to try to chase away a threatening fox . |
| 16 | The key issue is straightforward and it arises from a simple fact . |
| 17 | I do n't know where the name came from it , it , it 's , it 's , it 's simple and it seemed to work erm |
| 18 | It 's simple and it means most of my clothes mix and match really well . ’ |
| 19 | This cultivated form of love is universal and is magnanimous and it conquers all : ‘ If when another says , ‘ I can not love you any longer , ' ’ one proudly answers , ‘ Then I can also get along without loving you . ' ’ |
| 20 | A geographical area to work in if that is appropriate and it does not interfere with existing house-to-house and street collections . |
| 21 | Not exactly five star , but the food 's okay and it 's got a pretty terrace bar overlooking the river . |
| 22 | In the eyes of the Department of Energy , wave power on a large scale is uneconomical and it ceased to fund such projects following reviews in 1983 and 1985 . |
| 23 | Competition is cut-throat and it seems some of the designers have been taking some dodgy tabs ( or suffering from over-worked stress syndrome ) , as the high-top becomes more and more ridiculous . |
| 24 | The neck is dirty and the thing is white and it looks , and it 's so , the neck is dirty of the top , of the |
| 25 | As the material is synthetic , use a matching thread — 50 denier is ideal and it comes in many colours , although strangely very few kite-makers seem to want other than black . |
| 26 | It 's lighter , it 's springier , it 's livelier and it makes a lot less fuss about the whole business . |
| 27 | But you know it surprises me I mean I know the church is , is closed and it 's been closed for a couple of years now and it looks a sight because now I do n't know how many members they 've got , at least a couple of them could go in there and cut all the brambles down . |
| 28 | To have self-confidence is great and it helps when you apply for a new job , but to eat up your seed corn because you 're sure all will turn out for the best is foolhardy . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's great and it has opened up the race again , ’ said Mr Holding , 23 . |
| 30 | It 's blond and it looks brilliant . |