Example sentences of "it [be] [adj] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , it 's surprising how the Army toughens the lads , brings out the fibre in ‘ em . |
| 2 | The evening is drawing in early but it 's sad how the shadows lenghthen around Melville 's words . |
| 3 | You know we were asked , Do you want your own bank account really and we decided er democratically that we 'd have the one bank account really for make sure the D H S S did n't start snooping really and you know er that 's worked very well I mean certainly the men very much tell us everything that 's going on and erm well you know I do n't think there 's any conflict of erm I do n't know you know it 's it 's difficult I suppose it 's amazing really the way it does work you know and that er you know but it 's quite loose really because it 's er that 's in a way the way one of it 's successes probably you know that 's it 's not a very structured I mean probably the lodge is more structured I mean men are used to their lodge meetings are n't they you know ? |
| 4 | It 's amazing how the rest of the world manages to get by DESPITE the weather . |
| 5 | And fortunately again you often find that people , because it 's a novel situation , it 's amazing how the public are c often so helpful . |
| 6 | It 's amazing how the propeller-heads infiltrate every aspect of computing . |
| 7 | It 's boring … it 's lonely … but it 's amazing how the time just flies … |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | Knowing that , it 's clear why the SAS 's other , lesser known , motto is Train Hard , Fight Easy . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | It 's funny how an animal like a cow or a horse would swim you would think it would be |
| 12 | It 's funny how the mind works at a time like this I could n't hear anything so I called : ‘ Warton , Golf Zulu Sierra . |
| 13 | If it is appropriate perhaps the opportunity might be offered again next November , but the value of the meeting has to be guided by the views of the Committee . |
| 14 | Despite calls for ‘ new incentives to encourage increased private sector support ’ , and a proposed recomposition of the gallery 's ‘ ineffective ’ board , it is uncertain how the Gallery can so quickly become semi-autonomous . |
| 15 | Quite apart from the dubious legitimacy of generalising from one such fragment , it is uncertain how the data itself should be interpreted . |
| 16 | There is the inevitable paperwork , but this is much less than for section police although , given the antipathy to paperwork in all police forces , it is surprising how the neighbourhood men welcome it on cold , wintry mornings . |
| 17 | Deutsche Fernsehfunk ( DFF ) , the name of the public TV network of the former German Democratic Republic , will disappear this year , but it is unclear how the system will be organised in the future . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Irena took an unofficial day off work and we wandered through the damp streets while she told me about being a student at Palacky University in 1968 ( and what happened afterwards : ‘ It is strange how the history books of a country can change , is n't it ? ’ ) . |
| 20 | It is amazing how the model world can come up with numerous variations on the same basic device . |
| 21 | If it is internal then the individual could control it . |
| 22 | It is noticeable how the novel has become the literary form on which discussions of texts in other generic forms are based . |
| 23 | Even if the final goal is a paper , as it is with a DTP system , it is important how the paper was produced . |
| 24 | ( As it takes place within an overall structure of hierarchy and private ownership it is clear why the principle can only be described as quasi-democratic . ) |
| 25 | Viewed in this way it is clear why the separation of rules governing the use of means of warfare from those on the initiation of conflict has proved increasingly difficult to maintain . |
| 26 | From these statements it is clear where the emphasis of the Conservative government lies . |
| 27 | And on another : Here it is manifest how the Way of Life is found only through a Death , and that , without the deprival of all other knowledge , Self Knowledge itself is not to be achieved . |
| 28 | It was odd how the scar had remained all these years . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It was well over a year before Communist policy changed radically " though it had undergone substantial modification . |