Example sentences of "it [verb] be [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is a sign nonetheless , and what it signifies is that Eeyore believes he 's out of thistles : simply because he only sighs ( when the subject 's raised ) when he does believe that . |
| 2 | Ehm is a it is n't actually a a erm a new school it 's Birchwood High School it used to be Margaret Dane which has been established a few years but Birchwood just been started for a year erm it has is some information but obviously there have n't been any feedback from the school so I starts there . |
| 3 | It has been desperate year for Thomas . |
| 4 | And it has been that way for five seasons . |
| 5 | It has been better weather this year , if rather chilly at times . |
| 6 | It has been better weather this year , if rather chilly at times . |
| 7 | 21 In the past it has been standard practice to have exhibitions open only during normal office hours . |
| 8 | ‘ As you can imagine it has been total panic but fortunately the suppliers have been very co-operative and we will be ready . ’ |
| 9 | Their preferred description of it has been overinclusive thinking which has frequently been used to explain certain forms of thought disorder seen in psychotic patients , such as the tendency to cognitive ‘ slippage ’ , loosely associated ideation , and difficulty in maintaining a tight boundary for abstract concepts . |
| 10 | It has been rough going . |
| 11 | It has been typical weather on Britain 's south coast this August . |
| 12 | I 'm sorry it has been rotten weather at home . |
| 13 | It has been practising rotation internally for a number of years . |
| 14 | It has been sheer delight for them . |
| 15 | ‘ In some instances it has been sheer luck for members of the public with either guns jamming or security force patrols intercepting the terrorists . ’ |
| 16 | I think that you have made the magazine more interesting , more satirical and funnier than it has been this century . |
| 17 | It has been this policy of screening tenants over the decades before the main sale of council houses was pushed through by the Government that has resulted in the buying of houses largely on the best estates , and has helped to reinforce the emergence of the ghetto in many areas of Britain . |
| 18 | In practice , it has been this area which has been most significant in relation to land development and planning policies . |
| 19 | As was noted above , it has been this neglect of the loan period factor ( and consequent confusion between APR and actual money cost of credit ) which has in practice proved an obstacle to Americans using their growing awareness of APRs to shop more discriminatingly for credit . |
| 20 | Everywhere it has been high fashion to emphasise the importance of ‘ managing change ’ . |
| 21 | It has been tough going , finding out things about myself which were buried deep but with ministry from the leaders and looking to God for answers I believe he has healed not only my drug problem but has cleansed me from sin so that I feel clean . |
| 22 | The idea that there is free trade in the EEC is in many key sectors of economic activity as misplaced as would be the suggestion that there is a free market in European agricultural products , another sector which it has been British policy to attempt to liberalise . |
| 23 | It has been French State policy over the last twelve years to foster its provincial museums , and in particular to increase the number of contemporary art museums outside Paris ( see The Art Newspaper No. 26 , March 1993 , pp. 8–9 ) . |
| 24 | Since November , it has been spreading country-by-country through Europe in a wave which International intends to ride all the way to No 1 position in the market . |
| 25 | It has been some debate er on the board and the management committee about the direction the theatre should be going into the nineteenth century twentieth century and I think and I and I think it 's important that this meeting hopefully will be very constructive in the sense that is important that the theatre actually gets the views of people use the building , and people actually come along and support the of the theatre . |
| 26 | Not only did it emerge largely intact , it has been busy setting up shadowy ‘ national salvation committees ’ in whose name the army has been operating . |
| 27 | Traditionally it has been common practice for schools to seek to maintain discipline and control misbehaviour via the exertion of authority and the employment of sanctions as punishments . |
| 28 | It has been common practice for petroleum geologists to regard the pre-Permian rocks of England south of the so-called Variscan Front as economic basement . |
| 29 | It has been common practice to anticipate the worst load conditions in setting the count required to generate the RETARD signal . |
| 30 | It has been common practice to prioritise the need to prepare the accounts in accordance with SSAPs . |