Example sentences of "it [be] [verb] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That that used to be mentioned between us er er a few times , I can remember it being mentioned a few times . |
| 2 | It 's cost a million pounds to build a new water treatment works at Stow on the Wold in Gloucestershire , to take nitrates out of spring and river water . |
| 3 | I mean , th th they 're just moving away from the issue , because it it 's using a psychoanalytic stories . |
| 4 | IBM is saying it 's delivered a million copies of OS/2 and predicts it could reach two million by the end of the year : Microsoft Corp voiced scepticism about the number to The Wall Street Journal to which IBM VP Jim Cannavino retorted , ‘ A stork did n't bring [ the one million copies ] and I assure you I have n't cooked the books . ’ |
| 5 | I have to say Chairman that I find that the suggested resolution of six is totally adequate to deal with and I , I have read er the motion proposed by through a couple of times , and you know , it 's having a few frills here and there and some are , I , I , I find this one thing er more than adequate er to deal with the situation and er I would move that resolution formally . |
| 6 | ‘ A bad argument remains a bad argument even if it is repeated a thousand times . ’ |
| 7 | Earlier this week Rover also announced it is to introduce a new sports coupe model in 1992 — the first sports car to be built by the company since production of the TR7 ended in 1981 . |
| 8 | Alcatel Network Systems UK Ltd says it is launching a mobile communications system for UK freight services to link vehicles via satellite to their home base using its Euteltracs mobile system which provides two-way text communications between a mobile unit and its base , and position tracking and group messaging ; the service is similar to electronic mail and airtime costs are similar to cellular phone costs ; a mobile kit comprising antenna , the communications unit and keyboard should sell for £4,000 ; the system uses Qualcomm Inc 's technology . |
| 9 | It was sounded a few years ago by Helen Gardner in In Defence of the Imagination , by the contributors to Laurence Lerner 's Reconstructing Literature , and in America by Gerald Graff 's Literature Against Itself ( Graff 's position has shifted somewhat in his more recent Professing Literature ) . |
| 10 | It was completed a few months after its companion piece ( the G major Quartet Op. 106 and subsequently the composer devoted himself to programmatic tone poems and operas . |
| 11 | Why was the lignite option given such short shrift by NIE when it was raised a few years ago ? |
| 12 | But it was followed a few months later by sort of mini riot . |
| 13 | However , I changed my mind about the seriousness of Denning 's pronouncements when it was declared a few weeks later that the case of the Birmingham Six was to be reconsidered . |
| 14 | Without the motor car in mind , I mean for instance , we had Oxford , Reading and Swindon it was suggested a few years ago , that they got together and formed the Thames Valley United . |
| 15 | It was found a few miles from his car on the seashore near Great Yarmouth . |
| 16 | He rapped three times on the door of Room 144 , it was opened a few inches . |
| 17 | Oh it did n't look like it was making a hundred miles an hour anyway |
| 18 | It was working a few minutes ago , Pet stated . |