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Example sentences of "it [be] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	‘ Beauty and the changing attitudes to it are always a reflection of how the world changes .
2	‘ Can it be just a coincidence that this tape is alleged to have been recorded just two weeks before the Diana tape ? ’
3	Of course , if it were simply a matter of agreeing on an arbitrary definition , there would be little problem .
4	But if it were simply a matter of providing skills to make their students more employable , that would be a much more dubious enterprise .
5	Where religion is reduced to either , and treated as if it were simply a form of knowing or a form of doing , it is lost to sight altogether .
6	So mm it were just a case of a flying visit cos we 've not seen you for nearly twelve months .
7	Er the reason we wan na get it right is because er this Superintendent , erm he 's obviously got his interests very much on it , and he 's he 's keen to know what our response is going to be , and if it were just a member of the public I think we could we could being crude I think we could fob 'em off , but I think it 's gon na have to be a very structured answer as to why we 're not gon na do it .
8	‘ If only it were just a story . ’
9	His hands are gently folded over it as if it were just a bag of laundry on his lap .
10	You have run after me to find out this thing as if it were just an answer to a riddle , or a joke which you remembered half of .
11	If it were less an absurdity , the House of Commons would have to take it seriously .
12	If it were merely a matter of eloquence , or energy or conviction , the education system , like other male institutions , would have been transformed by women already .
13	If it were merely a handful of Irish psychopaths against us , they might be foiled by a piece of pasteboard with a photograph and some numbers stamped on it .
14	One of the reason you get took on , I mean , it were only a borstal when he went were n't it ?
15	If it were only a matter of alcohol , would a body care ?
16	And so it 's not a case of our waiting it 's rather a case of our receiving .
17	Well , because it 's , it 's rather a case of the blind leading the the blind , erm
18	‘ It 's rather a change , actually , ’ he murmured , ‘ to find a woman who does n't pick at her food and moan about endless diets .
19	It 's rather a relief .
20	I , too , think it 's rather a lot of money . ’
21	Cos otherwise it 's rather a lot to eat for one person .
22	‘ Then surely it 's rather a waste of time to bury yourself away on a Saturday night when you 'll have the bulk of the work to contend with tomorrow — when the club 's closed . ’
23	Considering the rock at Tremadog feels so solid on a small scale , it 's rather a shame that it has a large scale tendency to become part of the scree at the foot of the crag !
24	Once you 've created the jobs for people it has given the economies an upturn and I feel it 's rather a shame that the erm the great problems of the of the Germans particularly have put that pressure for high interest rates through the er E R M , through those currencies and one , I think , good thing of Britain 's disaster last year , with with their position in the E R M , is that by lowering interest rates , if we only had a government who wanted to use that opportunity probably , we could train people for for work .
25	Just one point , it 's rather a shame they ca n't be open at weekends ?
26	‘ It 's rather a hike . ’
27	It 's rather an adventure . ’
28	I think it 's rather an island in in the middle of the ermerm cultivated land so if you stand on top of the Ridgeway and look down you can see the Harwell site standing out as a a green treed area erm compared with the corn all round it .
29	If it 's already a bungalow .
30	Miki was worried that this important development might be passed off as a fad , a ‘ scene ’ people will get tired of : ‘ To some people it 's already a gimmick , but it 's very important , a lot of people have a lot to say .