Example sentences of "it [be] a [adj] [noun] [vb base] " in BNC.

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1 Well at the moment it 's a dry room come tool room
2 so it 's a rare occasion have to use it , but I probably have to have one with me all , for the rest of my life .
3 It 's a personal sales process
4 I think it 's a good school do n't you ?
5 It 's very er it 's it 's a good thing look how nice is n't it ?
6 But it 's a good marketing exercise the fact that you do it .
7 It did but er it 's a two way switch this business you know , you 've got to er you 've got to be together on the job have n't you really two sw two way switch .
8 Yes if it was erm , if it was ringing through , alright , and it 's a two seconds ring that you get , okay , you can either get it because the party is engaged , still , alright , in which case it 's not successful .
9 It 's a new thing come out now I do n't know whether it 's
10 Well it 's a four stone ring it is .
11 you know er well it 's er it 's a middle ages approach
12 ‘ I know this is a bit of an unusual hobby for a restaurateur , but it 's a little dream come true for me and I 'm thrilled to bits , ’ he says .
13 By redoubling you are asking partner to bid something — anything — else , and even if it 's a three card suit you 'll be in a better contract than one diamond doubled .
14 It 's a wonder people have n't had serious injuries from them really .
15 ‘ Yeah , yeah , it 's a fucking police state , ’ he says tiredly , offering the spliff case to me .
16 till quarter past eleven , it 's an easy wee shift ,
17 And that 's an it 's an ideal display see the mechanics working and they take out the cage and off you go .
18 So if it 's an ambiguous message go and tell somebody about it so it can be clarified .
19 It is a traditional Sunday brunch dish .
20 The 2 25 engine usually performs well in the 110 Check that the throttle linkage is giving full movement on both chokes of the carb As it is a progressive twin choke a small loss of movement such as a carpet tucked under the pedal can mean a big power loss
21 And it is a symmetric arms race because the nature of the success and failure on the two sides is the same : attainment of sunlight and being overshadowed , respectively .
22 Even now , I would not go so far as to say it is a bad staff plan ; after all , it enables a staff of four to cover an unexpected amount of ground .
23 It is a true arms race in which success on either side is felt as failure by the other side , but the nature of the success and failure on the two sides is very different .
24 If it is a public demonstration suggest that they wear a suitably neat outfit such as a track suit .
25 If Geertz is right that cockfighting is , perceived from a particular angle , an instance of how Balinese men imagined themselves to be , it is an imaginary projection Geertz too uncannily shares .
26 It was a good marketing move to have a worldwide celebrity on your photographs .
27 He says that although they succeeded in preventing a by-pass , it was a negative victory becasue it did n't solve Hereford 's traffic problems .
28 I do n't think it was a lousy stock take .
29 I do n't know whether it was a lousy stock take or not .
30 It was a hard days work when you went up and down a drill like that , lift the neep and yeuk lift the neep and yeuk and hope you get
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