Example sentences of "it [is] [verb] [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I love you I love you — it 's become some trilling song popular for a lurid month and then dismissed to the club circuit where pudgy rockers with grease in their hair and yearning in their voice will use it to unfrock the lolling front-row girls . |
| 2 | Oxford University is n't renowned for moving with the times , but it 's taking this equal opportunities business really rather seriously . |
| 3 | Yes yeah , I , I 'm also very disappointed that er er , in the negotiations that they did n't er er , come up with any sort of housing erm I think the , it 's mucking any future negotiations with other partners or developers , speculators whoever they may be , I think it 's important that we have , er we strike a balance between bu houses for sale and rented accommodation because , I mean they need to now the building er , this house for sale and each time we we we we knock down flats or building and ga gave the land free of charge to the speculators we have to de-count people , those people are moving th the existing te er people on the waiting list and they 're getting moved further and further back and er I think i i i it 's a very worrying situation where we are continually giving land free of charge and they 're getting no rented accommodation . |
| 4 | It 's hoped all 500 operations will have been completed within just 6 weeks . |
| 5 | So far it 's collected some 40 exhibitors and they 're the kind of brand names show managers love : DEC , HP , Sun , SCO , USL , UI , Unisys , NCR , Compaq , Univel and MIPS/Silicon Graphics . |
| 6 | So but there 's one thing ambition and it 's to smash that silly cow in the face ! |
| 7 | But it 's showing some great films ( the Japanese tech noir classic Tetsuo 2 , and Man Bites Dog , a stunning Belgian film about a charismatic granny killer ) . |
| 8 | I do n't know what it is , but it 's brought all these Glories up here . |
| 9 | As this is an important decision it 's recommended that sufficient time is allowed to mull over details says Belfast electrical retailer Paul Gilmore . |
| 10 | But it 's doing all this lot . |
| 11 | It 's juxtaposing those two things . |
| 12 | It is said that commercially-grown winter lettuce is sprayed More times than a Rolls Royce , which seems an excellent reason for growing your own organic winter salads . |
| 13 | A horse standing perfectly in the show ring , with its ears nicely pricked , may indicate that it is cross by pressing its lips tightly together , as if it is refusing some nasty-tasting medicine . |
| 14 | Well I think we 'll have to re-look at the whole question of village envelopes in certain cases , where it is decided that low cost housing is desirable , and see if in some way , they can encourage the farmer to make land available so that he can make some money which he badly needs at the moment , as agriculture 's going through one of the biggest depressions it 's been through for years . |
| 15 | But today it is providing many useful applications in the financial sector |
| 16 | And — in collaboration with AEA Petroleum Services — it is converting some selected microcomputer software to run on multiple workstations . ’ |
| 17 | Welcome though it is to see such friendly typecasting , we should hope that the opening up of broadcasting to more gay representation will allow for greater diversity . |
| 18 | It is ingesting many different types of foods , living and dead , plant and animal . |
| 19 | It is to suggest that sexual difficulty , or problems in the field of sexual relationship , should be looked out for more often by social workers and others concerned with them , and looked at more from the child 's own point of view . |
| 20 | So Chairman I offer in lieu of three point one , the formal recommendation an alternative recommendation which is as follows , it is recommended that further consultation take place with Norfolk County Council and Breckland District Council at |
| 21 | Chairman the , the amended recommendation I offer as follows , it is recommended that further consultation take place with Norfolk County Council and Brandon District Council at |
| 22 | No matter how unpleasant it is to damage another human being , fighting is sometimes still a vital part of self-preservation . |
| 23 | Darlington Wedding Cars operators have vanished from the firm 's Yarm Road premises and it is feared many engaged couples could find themselves stranded on their ceremony day . |
| 24 | It is striking that federal spending on research and development into energy was halved in the 1980s ; R&D into renewable energy alone fell from $700m in 1981 to $115m in 1989 . |
| 25 | While these books had probably disintegrated by Leapor 's time , it is striking that poor scholars might be taught Latin . |
| 26 | He explains how necessary it is to have these mental filters to exclude or devalue events which may be too disturbing . |
| 27 | I now realize what a great honour it is to have this Presidential Chain bestowed on me and I trust that I will be able to uphold and fulfil my obligations as President , particularly when I reflect upon the contributions made by my predecessors . |
| 28 | If it is to have any practical value a recording system must be concerned with measuring observable behaviour . |
| 29 | ‘ The Disabled ’ is a non-disabled construction , a representational framework no more real than a hologram but which has to contain two properties if it is to have any cathartic meaning for society . |
| 30 | It is to avoid that boxy look that skirts are rounded at the lower edge , especially if the skirt is formed of panels . |