Example sentences of "it 's [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's young to be doing it . |
| 2 | It involves beliefs such as ‘ There is n't enough to go round ’ , ‘ I never have enough money ’ , ‘ Money does n't grow on trees ’ , ‘ You have to work hard for what you want ’ , ‘ If I have more , others have less ’ , ‘ Better save for a rainy day ’ and ‘ It 's immoral to be rich when so many people are starving and homeless . ’ |
| 3 | It 's old and dirty , and I think it 's due to be condemned in ten years ’ time . ’ |
| 4 | It 's due to be broadcast on |
| 5 | ‘ It seems a firm of accountants hired it as temporary accommodation while their offices were being refurbished and it 's due to be removed . |
| 6 | It 's due to be heard at the town 's magistrates court later this week . |
| 7 | I , I mean if , we know how much is outstanding on each one , we know when it 's due to be paid , we know it 's gon na be about eight hundred policies a section , is it , ten thousand ? |
| 8 | I think it 's wrong to underestimate erm i i it 's particularly initially , how , how positively reinforced it can , it can be around you erm , just this the idea of losing weight and that er you know , people will be wha , for whatever reasons are , either envious or they want to know how you can do it , they want to know , and particularly if it 's linked with exercise then it 's all very good things to do and you know , the media 's telling you and a , everyone 's telling that this healthy lifestyle that actually then goes out of control through being so controlled erm e e , there 's a , well there 's a thin line between it , being a very positive experience , and you 're suddenly buying smaller jeans and erm you know , it 's just everything is is feeding , if that 's the right word , this idea that it , that that it 's tremendous to be |
| 9 | It 's awful to be last , is n't it ? ’ |
| 10 | Let us imagine that they meet and the man begins : ‘ Darling , it 's awful to be apart from you . |
| 11 | ‘ Poor baby , it 's awful to be so misunderstood ’ , slammed Germaine Greer in Oz22 . |
| 12 | I 've seen out in the street mountive er mounted police charging down rather like the Battle of Balaclava and inside the station problems arising and it 's nasty to be involved and in those days I 've travelled on a Saturday afternoon often . |
| 13 | It 's extraordinary to be sitting in the middle and listening to the different sides of the argument . |
| 14 | Expressions like ‘ do n't want to let the side down ’ , and ‘ it 's better to be a giver than a taker ’ , fall unselfconsciously from the lips of men like Lord Ferrers . |
| 15 | ‘ But it 's better to be safe than sorry . |
| 16 | ‘ People say there are courses in the economics of wildlife management , but I think it 's better to be a scientist than a talker . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm not crazy about the idea , but I guess it 's better to be remembered for something ! |
| 18 | You 've thought about it — for maybe a whole five seconds — but before you give him the thumbs up , runs these ten questions by him — it 's better to be safe than sorry . |
| 19 | It 's better to be safe than sorry — especially at Christmas , as consultant microbiologist Dr Liz Scott tells promotions executive Elizabeth Ollier ( left ) in the BBC Good Food kitchen |
| 20 | Because after all , it 's better to be ‘ Savlon ’ Safe than sorry . |
| 21 | It seems to me that it 's better to be an actor as far as the critics are concerned . |
| 22 | Angel tools around London in a black cab , getting into scrapes and surviving by his first rule of life : ‘ It 's better to be lucky than good ’ . |
| 23 | Yeah how much effect it does have I do n't know because where but I think it 's it 's really basis you know it 's better to be safe than sorry . |
| 24 | Manufacturers do put static protection devices on chips so the problem is nowhere near as bad as it was but it 's better to be safe than out of pocket . |
| 25 | It 's better to be alone when the planes come . ’ |
| 26 | It had been a fifty-fifty chance , but it 's better to be lucky than good . |
| 27 | It 's better to be lucky than good . |
| 28 | Still ( Rule of Life No. 1 ) , it 's better to be lucky than good . |
| 29 | He says that the message to doctors is : if there 's any suggestion of meningococcal meningitis use penicillin — it 's better to be safe than sorry . |
| 30 | There it 's better to be it 's only poor and have your self respect |