Example sentences of "[adj] and it 's a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But while you 're here leave it covered like this and it 's a bit . |
| 2 | But if the polls are wrong and it 's a fight to the finish , the verdict may not be known until the West Coast results are in . |
| 3 | He 's kicking 50 years old and it 's a bit manic . ’ |
| 4 | That 's a dog lost from Bulwell on Sunday morning it 's a Jack Russell with er long hair it 's white and black and it 's twelve years old and it 's a bitch , seven five two seven nine O if er you can help there . |
| 5 | Billed as the Wedgwood Group Carnival Day 1993 and It 's A Knockout , one of the main attractions will include a pottery antiques roadshow with valuations by expert Peter Williams , author of ‘ Wedgwood — A Collector 's Guide ’ . |
| 6 | They know what areas they 've got to cover in maths or English and it 's a question of their motivation . |
| 7 | The tone of these programmes tends to be relentlessly promotional , but the occasional clip might be useable and it 's a source worth investigating if you are short of materials . |
| 8 | The only money they put in to the chief executives and their two yearly pay re review performances that they get , for cutting other people 's wages or contracting Health Services and for somebody to have to travel that distance for a , to die , is absolutely appalling and it 's a disgrace . |
| 9 | But there is a cost of that and it 's a cost that people will recognise . |
| 10 | It 's as stark as that and it 's a nonsense . |
| 11 | It was gon na take quite a while so erm we got the base five as quickly as possible so that we had as many hands on the job at once and er we had some formwork getting spare so we decided to make them useful and it 's a case of we 'd got six tanks to do and if we had a breakage we ca n't afford to stop the programme so as a er , a standby , just in case , we may never use these we might three or four uses out of but if we do have a breakage we want to be able to replace that straight away so have a spare set and you 've got nothing more to do and er get the walls , get the er , the back build operation right at the very end , ongoing , till you 've got the waterproofers in er get the waterproofing up to the five meter level and er get the back build in as quickly as possible . |
| 12 | It 's black and it 's a board . |
| 13 | In fact this is more interesting than you may think because female hyenas have a pseudo-penis , they have , they have a pseudo-scrotum and a pseudo-penis , reasons which are n't fully understood and in order to mate , the male has to insert his real penis into the female pseudo-penis in order to reach her her genital and it 's a bit complicated . |
| 14 | Yes , I , I 'd give you two , one is my favourite of all shrub roses which is Fantan la tour which has what one can only describe as loosened sort of shaggy shell pink flowers with the most exquisite perfume , it 's a , it 's an untidy flower like the old shrub roses really should be the best of them erm and a very pale shell pink , a wonderful variety , not particularly repeat flowering , relatively short flowering season but so wonderful when it is in flower and the other one , er she says she does n't like red , now is n't really red , it 's a very very deep reddish purple and it 's a variety called Tuscany Superb and I grow Tuscany Superb in my garden alongside er some fennel , a foliage fennel plant and the feathery fennel together with , almost the aniseed aroma of the fennel together with these deep deep purple flowers of Tuscany Superb is absolutely wonderful , it 's actually on the edge of my herb garden . |
| 15 | Sir , I do n't think I 'll go to the Grand next week , I 'm getting susceptible and it 's a bit bewildering when there are eight and all in one troupe . |
| 16 | SMOKEY ROBINSON has been singing and writing his love sings since the age of 13 and it 's a whole three decades since he had his first hit . |
| 17 | These things are pretty big and it 's a shame to waste such a large resource of petrochemicals . |
| 18 | It 's absolutely fantastic and it 's a vindication that we can still do something new technology-wise . |
| 19 | Now y'know you can come up with a description of that as an ellipse but in exactly the same shape , in a slightly different context , yeah , you know it 's actually circular and it 's a hoop and your perception of the object is different . |