Example sentences of "and it [be] [det] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a very important way of handling statistics , is n't it , in a sense , I mean , if you 're talking about , in another context , if you talk about recidivism , and , and you say forty percent of people who go into prison reoffend within the following five years , that 's the down side , or you could say sixty percent do n't , or sixty percent keep out , and it 's all a question of how you actually phrase it . |
| 2 | He 's tarnished our performance and it 's all a bit sour . |
| 3 | And it 's all a situation that was predicted back in nineteen eighty eight when the government cut benefits for sixteen and seventeen year olds . |
| 4 | you 're not feeling that you 've got lots of little isolated subjects and lots of little isolated topics and it 's all building up and it 's all a lot it is a lot , |
| 5 | And it 's such a triumph when you capture it . ’ |
| 6 | And it 's such a nuisance . |
| 7 | it just fell on its face and it 's such a shame that the land like that er , er rich in everything , neglected themselves to that state that they 're begging for food |
| 8 | It 's a very expensive undertaking all this and it 's such a waste of our money I suspect . |
| 9 | Only a conception of the novel as an evolving genre will be able to take the potential of this development into account , and it is such a conception which the Quartet adumbrates . |
| 10 | Greg offered to see Margaret Seymour-Strachey home , but she said she was much better now , and it was such a relief to get things off her chest like that . |
| 11 | I could not believe I was not the only one and it was such a relief . |
| 12 | On the , on the he was on the and it was such a laugh it really was , good laugh . |
| 13 | you see , and he was , he , he probably brought me into the world , you see but , er you see , and Mrs erm , you see , she was married to Doctor and he used to come up to see my father and we had a different door then door being that 's got a yale lock on now but he he 'd say , hello Frank , you know always so you got , oh he was so nice and it was such a shame that he died |
| 14 | ‘ They tried to explain that it was only sand and it was all a stunt , but it was lit up with radioactivity signs and we take our environmental responsibilities very seriously . ’ |
| 15 | His eyes kept looking away over one of my shoulders or the other , never meeting my gaze , and I got the impression that like his wife he was constantly waiting for something important to happen , expecting someone to arrive at any moment , as though they both could n't believe what had happened and it was all a dream or a ghastly joke and they were just waiting for Clare to come gangling through the front door , kicking off muddy green wellies and loudly demanding tea . |
| 16 | And it was all a surrender . |
| 17 | And it was all a mistake about his being missing because he was there now , at the perimeter fence , smiling his lovely smile , saying ‘ Hullo , Jenny . ’ |
| 18 | So until then , I just could n't see , but , of course , I did n't realize that I could n't see and it was all a blur , because I never knew what it was like to see objects in focus . |
| 19 | But maybe there never was one , and it was all a journalist 's dream . |