Example sentences of "it [is] [adj] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says that when burning oak powder it 's possible that a spark could have gone astray . |
| 2 | I think it 's possible that a lot of the women here are saying no because of the stigma that 's attached to the word feminist feminism . |
| 3 | It 's ironic that a prostitute can get a hotel room by bribing someone but if you 're a respectable woman you are likely to be arrested if you even try to get through the front door . |
| 4 | ‘ I suppose it 's feasible that a girl with your looks and brains could drive someone to behave in the way you 've described . |
| 5 | It 's impossible and a waste of time . ’ |
| 6 | It 's sharp as a razor , a real hunting knife , but if you keep the sheath on you can hold it a bit . |
| 7 | It 's nice as a Minister to be able to do this , to look after your own patch . ’ |
| 8 | Independent advice er comes from major brokers , the banks and building societies have come out of independent advice pretty well , because they 've decided that it 's expensive and a hassle , cos we 're regulated all the time and of course it makes , we 've , we 've got to analyze the products on the market , so we 've got to pay people to do that . |
| 9 | ‘ I think it 's critical that a solution is reached which enables companies , that are not of sufficient size to go onto the full list , to have some marketability , ’ said KPMG partner , . |
| 10 | It 's an emotive issue and raises questions like whether it 's appropriate that a company such as Daimler-Benz which played a major role in the Third Reich , should be allowed as they want to , to build their headquarters near Hitler 's bunker . |
| 11 | It 's plain as a pikestaff . |
| 12 | It says it 's wrong that a judge should have to pass the same sentence on an abused wife who kills a brutal husband as it does on a robber armed with a shotgun who kills in cold blood . |
| 13 | It 's wrong that a man ca n't get to see around his own country . |
| 14 | On the topic of resources , it 's interesting that a player like Harry Roberts , who made Scotland ‘ B ’ and played with distinction for a number of top clubs , plays for Transvaal but would be fighting against top opposition for a third or fourth place in the hooker rankings in South Africa . |
| 15 | It does that when it 's free and a bit damp , you know , rain and all . ’ |
| 16 | Erm in my view , it has to link in somewhere into the primary i into the road network and it 's not appropriate to link it into er the local road system and er therefore I think it 's inevitable that a linkage will need to be made to the primary road network . |
| 17 | And it 's significant that a strand of films showing how a group of individuals from different social backgrounds could be brought together by war and learn to forget their divisions , generally regarded as the supreme achievement of wartime ‘ realism ’ , was anticipated in Powell-Pressburger's One of our Aircraft is Missing ( 1941 ) , in which a bomber crew bales out over Holland and works its way home with help from the Dutch resistance . |
| 18 | IT 'S disgraceful that a woman turned her baby daughter into a nicotine addict by smoking 50 cigarettes a day while she was pregnant . |
| 19 | It 's likely that an inquest on Susan Hill will be opened by the Gloucester coroner . |
| 20 | Well , it is really strange , because I 've done quite a lot of stage work , but it 's funny because a lot of people — even other film actors — do n't know about it . |
| 21 | It 's important that a student is prepared to understand and work with the prevalent theatrical traditions in UK schools . |
| 22 | Before residents arrive and on arrival , it 's important that a care assistant , who may be their key worker , is on hand to help them feel at home . |
| 23 | It 's important that an eye surgeon should assess retinal detachment . |
| 24 | erm , and , and , it could arise in many different circumstances , erm one can imagine a situation which wrongly expel erm a name from the market , well whatever the motives , that clearly distorts competition cos there 's one rule , one less competitor in the market , erm it , it 's con , it , it 's conceivable that an article eighty five argument could arise and an expel name could raise a point , whether he succeeds is another matter , but at that point and , and in relation to that he may say well I can sue you because you 've excluded me you 've restricted competition or you 've excluded a group of names |
| 25 | They come from all parts of the country , although it 's true that a function organised by one particular branch will tend to attract mainly members from that area . |
| 26 | However , if it is unambiguous that a user wishes to change his mode of operation from , say , navigation to content search , his status will be changed transparently from , in this case , REPLAY to INACTIVE . |
| 27 | For example , in Littlewoods Organisation Ltd v Harris [ 1978 ] 1 All ER 1026 Megaw LJ said : … it is appropriate that a covenant , restricting an employee from full freedom of taking other employment when he leaves his existing employment , should be included in the contract of employment where there is a real danger that the employee will in the course of that employment have access to and gain information about matters which could fairly be regarded as trade secrets ; and that applies even though the information may be carried in his head and even though ( perhaps , particularly though ) it may be extremely difficult for the employee himself , being an honest and scrupulous man , to realise that what he is passing on to his new employers is matter which ought to be treated as confidential to his old employers . |
| 28 | Referring issues to a named firm or company can run into similar problems but , again , it is appropriate when a dispute has already arisen : see 8.2.4 . |
| 29 | It is undeniable that a novel , as a text , consists entirely of language , and that we gain access to the fictional world only through language . |
| 30 | To put it no more strongly , it has not been proved beyond doubt that self-paced learning is the most effective , and it is odd that a movement claiming to " individualize learning " has paid such scant attention to individual personality and other differences among learners in its practice . |