Example sentences of "[conj] it [be] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If somebody 's saying to you do you want our guarantee — it 's fifty pounds , or it 's a hundred pounds — if you 're spending that sort of money you 'll probably pay out for it and you 'll think you 're covered for all sorts of things that might go wrong . |
| 2 | More so , that it 's a twenty pounds minimum premium , because they 're going to ask you to apply some of that knowledge through the questions . |
| 3 | Pluralists agree with Mills that it is a post-war phenomena and arises due to the United States ' need to take on a new world role The military fill the political vacuum which exists in foreign policy-making , and this brings them into close contact with the industrial firms which prospered out of the Second World War . |
| 4 | It is less ritualized than it was a hundred years ago , but it serves the same purpose of recognizing the event . |
| 5 | To this extent , we may consider society today to be healthier than it was a few decades ago . |
| 6 | Certainly more confident now than it was a few days ago . |
| 7 | It is a great deal more professional than it was a few years ago comparable with the standards of other types of consultancies and partnership firms , and is attracting an altogether higher quality of person than was previously the case . |
| 8 | The Greek merchant fleet is much smaller than it was a dozen years ago . |
| 9 | Yes if it was erm , if it was ringing through , alright , and it 's a two seconds ring that you get , okay , you can either get it because the party is engaged , still , alright , in which case it 's not successful . |
| 10 | ‘ Just go down the plaza here , turn right into the old section of the building , and it 's a few doors down on the right . |
| 11 | And it is a symmetric arms race because the nature of the success and failure on the two sides is the same : attainment of sunlight and being overshadowed , respectively . |
| 12 | And it was a million miles from what Ronni had assumed ! |
| 13 | and it was a four barrels of Carlsberg . |
| 14 | ‘ The DUC operated as a kind of umbrella organization and there was a little group in all the different localities where uranium prospecting was going on … and each of these groups had their own little committee of two or three people who were feeding back information to the DUC and it was a real grassroots organization then . ’ |
| 15 | I saw the rolled-up rug under the workbench and it was a few seconds before I realized that she was n't inside it any more . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's like it was a few years ago , when no one bothered too much about how you looked , and you did n't get any edginess or aggression . |
| 17 | It lacks the personal touch it lacks the personal touch which is why you never send your people letters saying you 're fired or you know lost a job you always talk to them and it can be more expensive in terms of materials you use it 's it is very very expensive on mat materials and cheap on time but it 's a personal relationships that 's the first thing okay that 'll do so when do we use it ? |
| 18 | Yeah but it 's a few weeks yet though . |
| 19 | He claimed in the press that it set out Government policy , but it was a million miles away from our policy . |
| 20 | Fran murmured her thanks as the woman collected the dog and went on her way , but it was a few minutes before she followed her . |
| 21 | But it was a few days before my birthday , and he has always remembered my birthday . |
| 22 | As to placing cable patterns , there is no need to have them all over the garment , unless it is a classic sports sweater . |
| 23 | Well nobody wanted them jobs because it was a seven days ' a week job . |
| 24 | Er most of my points have actually dried up now , sir , in view of what Mr Cunnane has said , and also Mr Jewitt , erm I do actually , I would try to emphasize a point that the people who are proposing new settlements in this location have judiciously avoided the question of need this afternoon , well I think we we almost came to the point this morning that the shortfall was nine hundred and reducing almost on a month by month basis , er one or two quick points I would like to pick up , er in view of the erm small nature or the shortfall in housing supply that we see over the next fifteen years , I can not accept that to avoid the new settlement option would be prejudicial to greenbelt objectives , erm the housing land supply allocations are almost there , there are plans to run through which will un almost inevitably allocate additional sites inside the inner edge of the greenbelt boundary and outside the outer edge of the greenbelt boundary , but both within Greater York , which are bound to assist in making up the shortfall of provision , and probably , if I suspect rightly , would actually exceed it , erm erm I agree with Mr Cunnane on the question of the alternative expansion of existing towns or settlements , the same point really , we 're almost there anyway , the op that option is already there , it 's not that it might be there , it is it is there at the moment , er it 's not a clear expression of local preference , and I would also point out the option of the environmental improvements under the P P G criteria you asked us to look at , erm whether it 's a thousand houses , two thousand , two and a half thousand , whether it has a bowling alley , or a ten pin bowling alley , and a B and Q , and a , probably a Tesco as well , this form of development will not sit comfortably in open countryside , almost , wherever it 's put within the Greater York area , I defy anyone to produce a site where one can satisfactorily put er such a massive form of urban development and suggest it 's a positive environmental improvement . |
| 25 | He also quipped that , since NT stands for New Technology , ‘ we will will have to change that when it 's a few years old . ’ |
| 26 | He also quipped that , since NT stands for New Technology , ‘ we will will have to change that when it 's a few years old . ’ |
| 27 | this is as true today as it was a hundred years ago . ’ |
| 28 | The political currency that underpinned the spread of UDCs is no longer so clearly in the government 's control as it was a few years ago . |
| 29 | With the soft detergents now in use , this trouble is not so bad as it was a few years ago , but appreciable quantities still get into some rivers , even though the bulk is removed in sewage-purification treatment . |