Example sentences of "[verb] it be [adj] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once you are accustomed to one Windows package , say a word processor , users say it 's plain sailing to learn another , such as a spreadsheet , because the conventions of look-and-feel tend to be very similar , though not necessarily identical . |
| 2 | say it was any thing to bother about |
| 3 | Her lawyers believed it was highest settlement made in an English divorce court . |
| 4 | Tony Revell says it 's living hell to work with , and I believe him . |
| 5 | He says it 's good fun to wander through , feed the ducks and watch people make fools of themselves in the punts . |
| 6 | She says it 's hard work having to think of other ways of getting around — having always to take into consideration the bus timetables — I ca n't arrange to meet friends unless there 's a bus at that time and coming home — leaving the pubs — I have to drink up quickly if I want to catch the last bus home . |
| 7 | Following news that the SQL Access Group is slowing down work on Phases 3 of its SQL Specification ( UX No 385 ) , the group now says it is changing direction to focus on market demands , and admits it got carried away with the academics of development . |
| 8 | Mrs Richards says it is high time to rid Austin , the capital city , of practices that critics say stink as much as Mr Pilgrim 's chicken-processing plants . |
| 9 | Where a person is injured it is normal practice to take a statement to the effect that ‘ the following injuries were sustained ’ . |
| 10 | Initially our agents had no idea of who he was , but as I 'm sure you know it 's standard procedure to take photographs , and as soon as we compared them and a descrip-tion with our files , we were in no doubt as to who he was . ’ |
| 11 | Speed really wants to play more centrally and lets face it is better making runs into the box , for crosses and knocks-down than he is at beating a full-back and crossing the ball . |
| 12 | Howard justified overruling the recommendation saying it was national policy to proceed as quickly as possible with renewable energy projects . |
| 13 | I read the Bentley brochure last night and I reckon it is tempting fate to begin by mentioning one of W O Bentley 's habits . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't suppose it 's any use saying that I 'm sorry ? ’ |
| 15 | I thought it was marvellous opportunity to do it that way , each subject held in a bay and in strictly chronological order . |
| 16 | He thought it was great fun to throw me about and wrestle with me and punch and kick me . |
| 17 | ‘ One can have a great concern for the people of Ethiopia , bit it 's another thing to inflict daily torture on the people of England . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't think it 's any use looking after old people unless you really care and really like old people . ’ |
| 19 | I do think it is scandalous thing neglecting your educational system and you 're going to pay for this for a hundred years , because riches just come by learning , that 's all . |
| 20 | I mean it 's one thing letting the committee know for their records or something . |
| 21 | I mean it was one thing standing up in front of my own group and giving a lecture , but it was quite another kettle of kippers doing it in front of a strange class . |
| 22 | Although all fittings and furniture had been removed it was Ritzy accommodation compared to a mobile incident van or the decayed huts and barn-like halls to which they were accustomed . |
| 23 | The County Ground is awaiting it 's first premiership win … so let's hope they can celebrate after the Rovers Return … |
| 24 | Well if the phone 's next to me you pick it up fairly quickly after it gives it 's first beep do n't you ? |
| 25 | ‘ I think it is one way to increase ( foreign ) investment in the market , ’ he said . |
| 26 | All you seem to think it 's bloody Halloween come back again . |
| 27 | Whatever the degree of response finally obtained it is good practice to investigate possible non-randomness and hence bias . |
| 28 | I said no Julie I said I have n't I said I would tell you cos I said I , she said to me do ring me and let me know , and I said I said I would and I will , I said no cos I did n't tell her when it were you see , so I said it 's this week coming and I 'll ring you this on Monday , so she said oh it was only , cos she said I saw Deb and Deb wondered , I thought yeah I bet she did she would |
| 29 | An Abbey spokesman said it was common practice to advise that a parent 's name should be put first for an account of a very small child . |
| 30 | Marcus said it was some idiot wanting the Water Company . ’ |