Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] it [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | France is now facing its second period of cohabitation between a right-wing government and a socialist president , and if the statements of the conservative leaders are anything to go by , it is likely to be tougher than it was last time . |
| 2 | That , that 's , that 's your ten thousand a year income , she can get by on that er this is interesting cos it 's all shares . |
| 3 | The message ca n't be different because it 's one sound , one word and one mouth , people , culture and all else that related to the people of reggae and Afro-Lingua . " |
| 4 | Sir , if you do come to the view , however , that one or both of these sites may have some as it were residual greenbelt functions , then we ask you to bear in mind the matters raised , in particular Mrs 's appendix nine , about the need in the longer term , that is , beyond two thousand and six in particular , for a strategic reserve . |
| 5 | That 's always the worse thing is n't it whe the the most annoying this when it 's harmless fun . |
| 6 | The students are hoping to arrange their own type of wine run , distributing New Release around Gloucestershire , in the hope that it 'll prove every bit as popular as it 's French rival . |
| 7 | The 1990–91 level of funding , a meagre £23 million , is lower than it was four years ago . |
| 8 | The modern practice of flailing the remaining hedges with crude machinery has not only destroyed the possibility of such views , but has also led to a considerable reduction of bird and animal life The landscape is much poorer both visually and in content than it was thirty years ago . |
| 9 | She had never felt such a queer sensation before and was suddenly sad because it was this man who was going to take her innocence away from her . |
| 10 | The only disturbance to the peace of this natural sanctuary occurred 120 years ago when a spectacular railway was laid at a high level across the head of the valley ; this apart , Dentdale today is very much as it was three centuries ago , happily free from modern developments and well content to remain so . |
| 11 | ‘ Not as dangerous as it was last night , I can assure you . ’ |
| 12 | But really I do n't like that cos it 's funny ends . |
| 13 | A canvas may be perfectly genuine if shown to date to the seventeenth century , but be a fake if it is nineteenth century . |
| 14 | A game lasts 90 minutes , but you 're lucky if it 's 50 minutes actual playing time — and that is not too much time to run up a score . ’ |
| 15 | I shall vote Tory because it 's low wages |
| 16 | Cottage cheese is granular as it is skimmed cows ' milk curds , drained and washed before being coated in a very thin cream . |
| 17 | It 's a high-risk enterprise for us to , to pontificate about local radio , particularly as we have three as it were local radio representatives here , and we shall give them ample opportunity to confirm or deny the sort of things we 're saying . |
| 18 | erm it 's probably sort of fifteen per cent better than it was last year . |
| 19 | The programme has been a lot better , a lot more stable this year and I think all round , the fitness in general , is going to be a lot better than it was last year . |
| 20 | It 's colder than it was this morning I think . |
| 21 | So even when we buy Traidcraft , unless it is cheaper than it was ten years ago , it should n't really be , should it ? |
| 22 | Even after Chancellor Norman Lamont 's 15p is added , bringing the price to just over £2.50 , in real terms petrol is still 14 per cent cheaper than it was ten years ago . |
| 23 | She thought that her father probably now earned more than £100,000 a year , but she did not know for sure because it was nine years since she had last visited him , four years since she had last received a Christmas card from him . |
| 24 | Congress , if a few more voters got off their backsides last year and gone out and voted , and voted Labour , there 'd be no need for this motion at all because it 's Labour Party policy anyway . |
| 25 | I were n't sure whether it was last Thursday , Friday or Saturday or this |
| 26 | Faith ceases to be laudable when it is blind faith . |
| 27 | I mean if there are two or three days off during that or one day off you take for instance , as long as it 's fifteen working days . |
| 28 | As long as it 's First Class .. . |
| 29 | twelve months so it 's as long as it 's broad John . |
| 30 | as long as it 's clean Jimmy that 's it , the main thing is n't it ? |