Example sentences of "it [be] [art] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Picking up the axe as though it were no heavier than a bread-knife , Jos indicated the unsplit wood . |
| 2 | Out across the water , the end of the lake had not yet emerged from the mist , and the mountains above it were no more than a delicate shadow of grey against a deep grey sky . |
| 3 | But to press into service , as though it were no more than a compendium of useful organs , the body of a servant , a friend — and a friend , at that , who died for a crime attributable to one 's own negligence — well , this moral madness placed him beyond human consideration . |
| 4 | You draw a line and you know at once whether it 's a good or a bad line . |
| 5 | Do you have any thoughts as to whether it 's a good or a bad thing that food is produced artificially , as it were ? |
| 6 | It 's a two and a half second sequence — I 've timed it . |
| 7 | If it 's a million , if it 's a million and a half dollars it 's er three quarters of a million pounds |
| 8 | I do n't know if it 's a sweet or a Dan say Arthur . |
| 9 | I daresay it 's no more than a chill . |
| 10 | Thereafter it 's no more than a recurrent talking-point or a way of talking down , with all this I do n't feel I really know you and What 's really going on in there ? and Show me the real you . |
| 11 | He 's perfectly competent , well supplied with money always , and it 's no more than a quarter past nine . |
| 12 | It 's no more than a change of clothing . |
| 13 | I thought , ‘ It 's the Nineties and a lot of people just do n't know what 's going on . ’ |
| 14 | It is a deadly and a serious one . |
| 15 | First , there are factors related to the size of the country and its internal organisation : whether it is a federal or a unitary state for example . |
| 16 | Errors made in the learning of a language , whether it is a first or a second one , are often indicative of the range and type of strategies used . |
| 17 | At the moment it is a nine and a half year loan and then the pictures leave . |
| 18 | We need to know whether it is a 10-strong or a seven-strong management committee , with a majority of management representatives . |
| 19 | However , it is a commonplace that a decision-maker who is given an apparently unfettered discretion must still exercise his power within the limits imposed by the law . |
| 20 | That the dish is tasty and that another helping will upset the stomach are relevant facts because they do modify inclination ; that it is a rainy or a sunny day and that the wallpaper is yellow or white are irrelevant because they do not move the child in either direction . |
| 21 | The theory ( and it is no more than a theory ) goes something like this . |
| 22 | It is no more than a consistent point of view , which has the advantage that , if we accept it , we can stop arguing about whether feelings are causes of actions , and can get on with finding out how our brains work , without fearing that an answer to the question would make free will an illusion . |
| 23 | It is therefore important to establish the reasons why it is no more than a secondary justification dependent on the availability , at least to a certain degree , of another justification . |
| 24 | It is no more than a large village with shops , yet to the folk of the remote parts of Sutherland it is a metropolis of great importance . |
| 25 | At the seaward end , it is no more than a good stone 's throw from the Atlantic beach but at a higher level , its issuing stream descending through a short wooded ravine to join the waters of the ocean . |
| 26 | It would be dangerous to suggest that this impossibility is in any strong sense theoretical , i.e. open to mathematical proof , and I will assume it is no more than a strong empirical impossibility . |
| 27 | In Some cases , those where laws have been enacted , this will be justified , but for those that remain mere hopes it is no more than a persuasive figure of speech . |
| 28 | And yet it is no more than a nine-horse race , even if one of the teams is more pony than stallion , and no extreme predictions will be found in this column ; the taste of the printed page proved far too unpalatable in 1983 , when criticism of India , eventual World Cup winners , was duly exposed as unwarranted and the urgent suggestion that one should eat one 's words was honourably met . |
| 29 | His eye measured these impressive heights coolly , relating them always to sea level rather than to their own grandeur , and correcting Boswell 's exultation over ‘ another mountain I called immense : Johnson : ‘ No ; it is no more than a considerable protuberance . ’ ’ |
| 30 | Superficially it is no more than a succession of parallel layers . |