Example sentences of "it [is] [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm , and er , sometimes even pleased to say well I 'll try to get you in purple , but er , nowadays erm , we , we do n't go in for that because there 's , there 's so many er shops now that selling lighting fittings erm and selling nothing else , there is n't one actually in Harlow , but there 's one in Epping and there 's one in Stortford , erm that er , it 's , it 's riding a new car people want to see er a good variety of them , have a look at a lot or a washing machine or anything like that , you want to see many before you buy one . |
| 2 | ‘ I did n't work hard enough at marriage — it 's remained a huge sadness to me ’ |
| 3 | so it 's keep a high profile on the , on useful things and keep a low profile on the , on the others |
| 4 | Roger Kelly is convinced that there are enough people to invest in the centre : ‘ Five years ago this would have been a pipe-dream , but with the rise of the ethical investment movement it 's become a real possibility . |
| 5 | It 's become a major part of my job . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's become a big problem , bigger than just the problem facing us , ’ said a Williams team insider last night . |
| 7 | It 's become a life-long commitment , although I 'm not complaining . |
| 8 | And in recent weeks it 's become a daily chore , as more and more birds have been brought in from the nearby Gloucester Sharpness canal . |
| 9 | It 's terribly unfashionable , so it 's getting a new coat of paint at the Old Fire Station In Oxford . |
| 10 | That 's it , it 's getting a little bit annoying . |
| 11 | The working party on the theology of marriage is finding its task stimulating but arduous and it will surprise no one that it 's taking a long time . |
| 12 | It 's taking a long time to heal . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Everything official here seems to be tied up in red tape , so although it 's taking a long time I 'm sure the licence is being processed , ’ she declared defiantly . |
| 14 | Alpha Microsystems has written off its Italian and French subsidiaries and will be closing them soon , citing poor margins and continuous losses : as a result it 's taking a non-recurring charge in the second quarter , ended August 30 , and posting net losses of $3m , or 99 cents a share , on sales of $12.9m , up 9% . |
| 15 | It 's made a great thoroughfare in the dining area and broken the dining area up a bit . |
| 16 | She says that it 's made a great difference , the swan can now struggle to it 's feet . |
| 17 | And it 's made a lovely edging for a wooden tray , coated in varnish once the paste is dry . , . |
| 18 | For businesses affected by the strike , it 's proving a long wait . |
| 19 | It 's understood a new report will say there 's no evidence it works better than traditional methods . |
| 20 | It 's cost a million pounds to build a new water treatment works at Stow on the Wold in Gloucestershire , to take nitrates out of spring and river water . |
| 21 | It 's cost a vast amount of money and time . |
| 22 | Bizarre though the synchro-energy system might sound , it 's touched a raw nerve among jaded New Yorkers worn out by a decade of hard , hyped-up materialistic living . |
| 23 | Keep your ropes tight chaps , it 's moving a little bit now . |
| 24 | The Jockey Club has announced it 's to hold a full-scale inquiry into exactly what went wrong at last Saturday 's Grand National in an effort to prevent it happening again . |
| 25 | plastic cover to try and keep it nice it 's looking a little bit er worse for wear . |
| 26 | You call it , I think it 's called a maxi-dowment plan . |
| 27 | They do another sort and that 's really nice , it 's called a nutty Vera |
| 28 | That is it for this week , so er hope you enjoyed it , join us next Friday for another er burning hot series of debates er another three ring circus , it 's called A Central Weekend . |
| 29 | It 's called a Bubbly Jock |
| 30 | It 's called a Qualitative Data Review form no it 's called a Qualitative Research Review form so what 's this in the something else . |