Example sentences of "[adj] it [be] [adj] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | So he ought , thought Sally-Anne , and so he is , and , desperate to change the conversation , to steer it away from dangerous ground , she said , as brightly as she could , through numb lips , ‘ Sha n't we miss the last horse bus home if we do n't leave soon ? ’ thinking how fortunate it was that Stair had not told Dr Neil the other heiress 's identity — Sally-Anne Tunstall might have been a dead give-away ; she really ought to have changed her Christian name . |
2 | A panel of medical and scientific experts based them on how likely it was that cancer had been caused by the victim 's working conditions . |
3 | IF THERE 'S ONE thing for sure it 's that backpacking makes you ravenous . |
4 | Although an equal mixture of the three subtractive primaries will , in theory , produce black it is normal practice to use a separate black ink . |
5 | Among lots of small trees was seven fifty foot black it 's front garden held two mighty elms . |
6 | 3 It is one thing to recognise the limited possibilities of insurrection in Britain , but it is another thing to move from this into support for the Labour Party . |
7 | For any girl who was a little bit shy it was sheer agony to go out at all . |