Example sentences of "it [be] [adj] of [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if there 's one job we all know we could handle , given a double-breasted suit and a few handy clichés , it 's that of football manager . |
| 2 | It 's one of things things on television about it , you know , I mean |
| 3 | Dot wanted to say , ‘ It 's one of Mrs Hollidaye 's babies ! ’ but because of her throat , the words stuck like plum stones . |
| 4 | As for ‘ Observatory Crest ’ , it 's one of Captain Beefheart 's least extraordinary songs , a kinda spacey ballad . |
| 5 | It 's one of James Michener 's better book 's , Boise . |
| 6 | It 's typical of Mochica pottery — a lot of it is highly erotic . |
| 7 | It 's good of thoo ti' come . ’ |
| 8 | It 's zany , it 's irreverent and it 's brimful of right-on attitudes , but I found it virtually impossible to raise a smile , never mind a laugh . |
| 9 | It 's more of Mrs Padmore 's typescript . |
| 10 | It is typical of Sir Edmund 's somewhat elliptical approach to things that we went through this rather futile conversation before he told me anything else . |
| 11 | Editor , — It is disingenuous of Robert Kilpatrick to claim that the General Medical Council was not created ‘ to protect the public against quacks . ’ |
| 12 | In some , however , it is that of adult child and elderly parent . |
| 13 | It is one of Robin Child 's primary aims that everyone should learn to be visually literate , to learn to read a picture as they would a book . |
| 14 | It is one of Hewlett-Packard Co 's most successful German resellers and has 100 employees ; 1991 turnover was about $12m . |
| 15 | It is free of chlorofluorocarbon gases which have been used to cool most fridges for decades . |
| 16 | Ebony and Ivory follows the same format as Look — No Hands , it is full of punchcard designs which can be used for other projects . |
| 17 | These days it is full of Leeds solicitors and accountants going to see their London clients . |
| 18 | Defoe was much more impressed with the vitality of Lewes , or even Petworth , ‘ a large and handsome country market town , and very populous , and as it stands upon an ascent and is dry and healthy , it is full of gentlemens families , and good well built houses both in the town and the neighbourhood ’ . |
| 19 | The Institute of Taxation does not seek to interfere in the internal operations of the Tax Faculty , and it is wrong of Peter Wyman to suggest the contrary . |
| 20 | It is shrewd of Mr Kinnock to attempt to enlist this mood and to link Labour with such concepts as patriotism , efficiency and plain common sense , virtues which have more often been associated with the Conservative Party . |
| 21 | It was nice of Mr Frost to do that . |
| 22 | It was prudent of Saad Rashid to hide himself and his family away . |
| 23 | It was cruel of Miss Havisham to encourage me to hope , but I do n't think she meant to be unkind . ’ |
| 24 | And it was cruel of Teddy Taylor to cast into such a garden of refinement the used oil drum of a question about trains from Southend . |
| 25 | ‘ Of course , ’ Belinda murmured , thinking that it was typical of Dr Russell not to mention this illustrious connection , which she found a little intimidating . |
| 26 | It was typical of Glyn Morgan not to have disturbed the scene . |
| 27 | It was typical of Edward Crumwallis that , even at this stage , his first reaction was an instinctive determination to cover up . |
| 28 | The next day they charged Barry Moxton with the murder of his wife Mary and there was a picture on the front pages of him being led away with a blanket over his head and another of a policeman coming out of his mother 's house with a plastic bag that was said to contain his bloodstained and half-burned clothing , and a day or so after that Uncle Titch turned up in South Wales with his horse and cart where he said he 'd gone after a merry-go-round and did n't know what all the fuss was about , did n't know about any murder , did n't read the papers and was generally believed , at least by the people on the estate , because it was typical of Uncle Titch , and by that time the Queerfella who was queerer than any of them knew had made a full confession and it was all over bar the shouting and the trial , when he pleaded guilty and was sent down for life and everyone said he should have been hanged and pretended it had never once crossed their minds that it was Uncle Titch that done it . |
| 29 | It was typical of Benjamin James , as it happens , to go in for such a touch of harmless sycophancy to please his friend the vicar ; he had very soon become , as we might have guessed , a respectable pillar of the Curry Rivel establishment . |
| 30 | If you think that would n't hurt , I 'd better tell you it was one of Albert Rowe 's specials — stale and very crusty . |