Example sentences of "it [be] a [adj] [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a warm May evening , the exams are over and everybody 's partying . |
| 2 | Look at this suit — it 's a real Paris model with a mink collar . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ It 's a real Gillespie idea this one is n't it ? |
| 4 | It 's a real Ron Wood lick which is what Wally was all about . |
| 5 | It 's a great Jock Scott that 's doing all the damage , ’ came the reply . |
| 6 | It 's a 1959 Gretsch Country Gent in Cadillac Green which I paid three hundred and fifty quid for . |
| 7 | It 's a proper Sony Walkman . |
| 8 | It is a typical Karajan project because in one respect it is enormously sophisticated — the technology is elaborate , expensive , and bang up to date — and in another it is very simple , inasmuch as its ultimate aim is nothing more or less than the lucid presentation of the music . |
| 9 | It is a rambling Tudor house run by John and Margaret Parker , whose breakfast room and drawing room look out over a wonderful walled garden , beyond which fields of grazing cows stretch down to the river . |
| 10 | Outside it was a dark November day , but the house seemed full of sunshine . |
| 11 | It was a bleeding Piaget copy . |
| 12 | It was a confident Neil Kinnock who hammered home his attack on the government and set out his stall for the election , concentrating on the economy , investment and education . |
| 13 | It was a seventh Haydock victory for Twin Oaks from eight visits to the course , and the performance delighted Richards . |
| 14 | It was a real Fanny-by-gaslight relic of the old city , redolent of gin and vomit and brutal crimes , and the fog had crept in like an old friend and made a dripping urinal of the walls . |
| 15 | It was a real George Adamski job , or a Dr Sir George King job , depending upon which contactee you happen to favour . |
| 16 | And although it was a typical Lineker goal which ensured England 's place in the European Championship finals , when he scored a late equaliser in Poland , Taylor 's doubts began to emerge clearly . |
| 17 | It was a hot May evening : the children on the streets around the gallery were lightly clad and quarrelsome , and the sunlight was streaming into the upper room where the exhibition was displayed . |
| 18 | It was a hot August afternoon , a Wednesday matinee . |
| 19 | It was a classic Perry Mason prisoner-and-jury setting . |
| 20 | It was a misty February evening , but the churchyard was just visible . |
| 21 | It was a misty December morning in 1940 , when test Pilot Jack Hathorne crashed a Hurricane fighter plane into this leafy glade on Robinswood hill . |
| 22 | It was a misty Sunday morning and we were bumping along the Ridge Way , near Wantage . |
| 23 | For it was a far-from-embarrassed Mr Gummer who rose to the despatch box . |
| 24 | It was a warm May dusk . |
| 25 | It was a warm May day and everybody seemed to be out in the street or standing on their steps . |
| 26 | It was a mixed carriage in a corridor train and the man sitting opposite me , heavily bearded , wrapped , though it was a warm June day , in a food-stained Ulster , watching me , watching me . |
| 27 | It was a warm June evening , and I felt glad to be going home . |
| 28 | It was a British India troopship and somehow managed to cram 600-700 troops into the sharp end , and the rest of the ship quite — two-thirds — was reserved for one hundred officers and a few , very few , Princess Mary 's Royal Air Force Nursing Service . |
| 29 | It was a crisp Saturday morning in February , and the young man had picked her up from her flat and was driving them to a motor-racing track in the heart of Surrey . |
| 30 | It was a chilly May day , with grey skies and a wind which seemed thirsty for another death . |