Example sentences of "it 's [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | So it 's a process , it 's got interests , it 's related to a state and it 's in the international arena , very good , very good , a lot of erm er a lot of very good things there . |
2 | I mean , the real problem is that the rating system is out of date , it 's based on a rating valuation which was last updated in 1973 and has n't been updated since . |
3 | It 's based on a design that 's earthquake-proof . |
4 | And I think this is a pretty critical problem , and of course it 's not only based on Sussex schools , but it 's based on a number of schools throughout the country which we 're studying to see the effects of this programme . |
5 | I mean it 's turned into a bit of a joke now really |
6 | And then , each side of it 's making contact and it 's gone into a hole that size , and it 's moving it ai n't making contact . |
7 | It 's gone beyond a fashion now . |
8 | It 's gone like a dream , it 's er I 've had no major problems with it at all . |
9 | No , it , it 's , it , it , it 's coloured like a fire , fire , fire engine red and all the other things , but it , it 's a commercial vehicle a roll-on roll-off type of vehicle , which you can buy commercially and , and adapt for Fire Service use , and there 's erm I should think there must be about half a dozen pods now , erm at High Wootton , in fact police services are using it , Thames Valley Police I remember coming up here to , to take the idea back , erm I saw yesterday at Hungerford , er the police there going with their pods to , |
10 | I mean , it 's partly I suppose because I do n't watch a lot of football , but women 's football is not generally , it 's occasionally you get an article in the press and it 's seen as a kind of freakish thing ! |
11 | You 've got , in fact , to work out what their proper significance is , but there 's no doubt that it 's seen as a kind of turning point , and although it was a Roman Catholic Council , its effect has been marked on all aspects of Christian life in Europe and , well , through the world . |
12 | But er when just before I left the polishing which was in nineteen thirty eight , er they were bringing in a lot of cellu it 's all th a lot of all this modern stuff is what they call cellulose , but I could n't tell you how it 's done , it 's done with a spray . |
13 | But if it 's done as a way of accelerating the child 's development , in order , as it were , to give it the edge over its peers , that does n't seem to me to suggest a relationship in which parent and child are enjoying each other ; it is much more a relationship in which the child is being prepared for competition with its peers and this , I feel , probably is going to turn out badly , because almost inevitably the child will not reach the levels that the parent has build up in fantasy in its own mind . |
14 | But if it 's done as a way of accelerating the child 's development , in order , as it were , to give it the edge over its peers , that does n't seem to me to suggest a relationship in which parent and child are enjoying each other ; it is much more a relationship in which the child is being prepared for competition with its peers and this , I feel , probably is going to turn out badly , because almost inevitably the child will not reach the levels that the parent has build up in fantasy in its own mind . |
15 | But I mean the style of it is obviously jacketed person , blousey , cos it 's collar and she 's got three buttons at the front and it 's fitted as a jacket as opposed to a tuck in a blouse . |
16 | I think it 's escaped from a farm . |
17 | Now I do n't believe that this issue has been aired wide enough it 's understood by a lot of people what the problems are going to be these problems are n't gon na occur in the next ten years , they will happen in twenty years ' time . |
18 | er and it 's written in a language that hardly anybody can understand anyway . |
19 | Well he played at a level , I mean er , I mean he but it 's played at a level where it 's loud enough er to have a good boogie on down |
20 | If it 's expressed as a percentage of patients the bar on the left side represents those sites who performed more than one hundred cases during the audit period . |
21 | Erm and if it 's expressed as a number of factors , |
22 | It 's generated with a handle and |
23 | It 's classified as a wholesaler but the supermarkets say Costco should be subject to the same planning rules as retailers . |
24 | It 's known as a hippo-bath-day on this one . |
25 | It 's gone to it 's got to a stage where he made that statement which he very very much means , he will never ever give them another album of his to market worldwide . |
26 | She 's alright yeah , well I , I bought her a book but it 's one of these , it 's like a talking book a Disney one , it 's got like a keyboard down the side and you press certain pads and it makes a noise and I thought oh rather than just getting an ordinary book , I thought that would be quite good |
27 | On that one it sort of leaves a disk , it 's got like a bar underneath |
28 | And it 's got like a hood thing . |
29 | and like a big tie through the , the waist and the top is like white edge with navy and it 's got like a sailor collar at the back |
30 | It 's described as a triumph , it 's described as a victory . |