Example sentences of "it be [adj] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But it 's all just a coincidence ! ’ said Angalo . |
| 2 | It 's all just a myth . |
| 3 | Doubtless it 's all just a safety precaution and will come to nothing . |
| 4 | Like it really , that film really pisses me off right , when he 's beating her up and he rips her knickers off and fucks her up the arse and Nick 's going that 's how to treat a wo it 's disgusting fucking a woman up her arse , and ripping off the woman 's knickers and rip putting it up sitting watching it thinking |
| 5 | I said well it 's funny how a friend of mine gets it , she says well she must be on Income Support with an underlying something like an , a different pension on top of her Income Support , which she is is n't she ? |
| 6 | It is extraordinary how a nation so characterised by class difference should still be so timid about immortalising its own class struggles in place names . |
| 7 | It is all largely a matter of trial and error to find the string that will suit you best . |
| 8 | If it is all just a matter of philosophy , then anyone can voice an opinion on it , and there may be differing views of what ‘ humanity ’ consists of behind it all . |
| 9 | It is all really a matter of manual dexterity and self-confidence . |
| 10 | It was well over a year since his sister had married Dunbar and gone off to the West Indies , where , according to her spasmodic letters , she was having ‘ an utterly marvellous ’ time . |
| 11 | It was well over a year before Communist policy changed radically " though it had undergone substantial modification . |
| 12 | It was all rather a relief . |
| 13 | For an unpretentious suburban Gasthof it was all rather a surprise . |
| 14 | At the end he asked me about myself , curtly , as if it was all rather a bore . |
| 15 | Helen replied enigmatically that it was all just a question of experience . |
| 16 | Ruth was beginning to feel it was all just a dream ; part of her mind felt detached , quite separate from her body . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , a self-declared ring-leader , Paul Taylor , shouting from the roof tops , has claimed that it was all just a sit-in protest that got out of control . |
| 18 | It was all just a moment 's mental aberration ! |
| 19 | It was all just a sort of angry joke because the rest of the gang , and Ashton in particular , would n't agree with him about the best way to fill holes in . |
| 20 | But he was n't frightened , because he knew that it was all just a joke , a little comedy of the kind fathers like to play with their sons . |
| 21 | Maybe it was all just a game to him , these stirring pulses and loaded glances , and chemical reactions . |
| 22 | He started to smile , teasing me , and for the second time I was convinced that someone would flourish it back to existence , that it was all only a game . |