Example sentences of "it [be] an [adj] [noun] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if it were an ancient castle standing there against the skyline , if what we looked out at tomorrow morning was a row of turrets , we 'd probably be saying how magnificent it is . ’ |
| 2 | The sweeping contours of the hill at that point have always reminded me of a huge wave about to break , and it 's an uncomfortable thought trying to imagine where you might stop for lunch , and what would happen if you dropped your orange . |
| 3 | It 's an all-time record befitting the 8 times champion jockey who once won 221 races in a season . |
| 4 | It 's an individual singer carrying a famous name . |
| 5 | It 's an expensive business having so many children … the weekly shopping list includes a hundred and twenty five pounds of potatoes , twenty one loaves of bread and seventy pints of milk . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's an international career coming to a close and one that people have been full of admiration for for over a decade . ’ |
| 7 | It 's an old English saying . ’ |
| 8 | It is an investigational procedure involving either , |
| 9 | It is an attractive hotel offering friendly service , and is in a good location . |
| 10 | It is an orchestral session featuring Danish musicians plus Davis , John McLaughlin on guitar , and Vince Wilburn on drums playing the Scandinavian trumpeter 's Palle Mikkelborg 's concerto for his hero , recorded in Copenhagen to accompany Miles 's receipt of the Sonning Music Prize , a tribute whose earlier recipients have been Stravinsky , Leonard Bernstein , and Isaac Stern . |
| 11 | In purely military terms it was an amazing success reflecting great credit on Britain 's small but all-professional armed forces — which were such a contrast to the much bigger conscript forces I remembered from the 1950s . |
| 12 | It was an encouraging performance showing we can come back when it counts ( unlike last year ) . |
| 13 | He says it was an awesome sight seeing the water come in the door . |
| 14 | The director , the crew and I stayed at Stromness on the Orkney mainland , in wartime too far to visit because of being at short notice for steam ; and it was an odd feeling crossing over to Hoy in the ferry , then motoring in a taxi down its eastern side to the once familiar anchorage of Gutter Sound . |
| 15 | It was an oscillating mechanism involving an extra wheel , as compared with the verge-and-foliot system . |
| 16 | It was an imposing mansion standing in one of Geneva 's central streets and overlooking the Rhone . |
| 17 | One man , Ivan Masterson , talks about how he helped pull people from the rubble and says : ‘ It must have been the second body I helped to take out … it was an awful shock seeing my uncle there with his wife beside him . ’ |
| 18 | It was an open tourer having a folding hood and never looked large enough to take four adults . |
| 19 | It was an open window looking out onto the wind-rippled waters of the Tigris and across to the Al Jumhuriyah and Al Ahrar bridges and over to the tower blocks of the foreign-money hotels . |
| 20 | Lying alongside it was an old bottle containing a faded manuscript . |
| 21 | Rolling over was a painful if not too difficult manoeuvre , but , even with Travis helping all he could , it was an exhausting process trying to find his pocket and reach into it when she could only go by touch . |
| 22 | To those activists of the Catholic right who eventually came together in the CEDA it was an illegitimate document calling for drastic ‘ revision ’ ; more widely it helped to render the passive majority of Spanish Catholics immune from the appeal of conservative Republicanism and drive them into the CEDA 's welcoming embrace . |
| 23 | It was an important river crossing for the Severn . |
| 24 | At Nottingham it was the shortsighted conservatism of the townspeople themselves , fighting a minority who wanted change and improvement ; at Stamford it was an aristocratic landlord fighting for his archaic political privileges against the townspeople . |
| 25 | He says ; It seems it was an isolated incident involving two people . |
| 26 | It was an Arctic blast screaming from the east , picking up extra degrees of cold as it drove over the frozen white surface . |