Example sentences of "[adv] it [be] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because in that paper there is a passage where Trivers says , if my theory is right , and basically it 's this Trivers Willard thing he was talking about , that parents and offspring will be in conflict about parental investment , he says , if my theory is right and if parents discriminate investment on the basis of offspring success , then he makes two predictions . |
| 2 | ‘ Perhaps it was this bloke Kennedy she was supposed to be meeting . |
| 3 | So it is worthwhile finding cleaning materials that are phosphate free . |
| 4 | So it is another road movie , with a Kerouac-style character , depicting a man who had ‘ auspicious beginnings ’ — a line he wrote himself — searching for fulfilment and running into some harsh realities of life . |
| 5 | So it 's good exam skills . |
| 6 | Yeah , so it 's two A B , two times A times B. |
| 7 | So it was last Tuesday night , when the change allowed at the end of our whacky version of five-card rolling draw brought your correspondent the most beautiful five of spades he had ever seen — face down what 's more — to go with the A-2-3-4 he was showing . |
| 8 | Nevertheless it is very s table in all axes . |
| 9 | Thus it is likely Derek Turnbull will find himself on occasions deployed in that region . |
| 10 | Thus it was that youth unemployment brought about , or at the very least greatly hastened , ‘ the new FE ’ , and with it the spread of courses for students with moderate learning difficulties . |
| 11 | Ironically it was part-time spinner Aamir Sohail who pulled the rug from under England by dismissing Ian Botham for 40 and Trent Bridge destroyer Graeme Hick for just eight . |
| 12 | Oh , I could n't cos we ran out , and when we came back it was ten o clock and I thought , well . |
| 13 | Now it 's all Boy Scout stuff and bivouacs and tents . |
| 14 | NME 's punk enfant terrible Tony Parsons in 1992 : now it 's all Apple Mac and Armani , then it was chiefly amphetamine and aggression |
| 15 | Well it 's front wheel drive car so |
| 16 | Well it 's another Vauxhall ad but it does n't make sense buy a Nova with a good deal or very little . |
| 17 | Well it 's multi purpose cupboard dear . |
| 18 | I do n't still have it , no , no it had got knocked about a bit , you know , being moved hither and thither and the other people have had it a bit as well as us , because we bought it from the people who lived next door when they left you see , cos when we started in here , we did n't have any carpets on these floors or under here it 's brown Marley tiling and I can still show you that |
| 19 | Nowadays it 's all Nirvana imports and ‘ Needed . |
| 20 | Unfortunately it was classic summer weather . |
| 21 | I was n't a brave boy , not physically , that is , but then it was unlikely Mr Broadhurst had anything physical in mind . |
| 22 | When I was a child he was selling insurance , then he was offloading imported sheepskin coats in the London street markets , then it was free range eggs . |
| 23 | Indeed it is this science fiction/space fantasy motif that runs through his show . |
| 24 | It is easy to produce accurate pulses at very high speed yet it is 1 second pulses which are needed . |
| 25 | The increase in national insurance gave the Government ‘ more freedom for movement next year ’ , when it was unlikely Mr Lamont would still be Chancellor . |
| 26 | The book represents an attempt to explain the series of unexpected corporate failures over the past few years and why it was that company accounts do not appear to have given adequate warning of what was to happen . |