Example sentences of "it be [adj] of [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | time-consuming , it 's destructive of other things we value so that we value er artistic creation , enjoyment , conversation and so on . |
| 2 | It 's a story of high drama in the glossy fashion world — and it 's full of familiar faces from neighbours in much meatier roles . |
| 3 | It 's full of historic buildings , including a marvellous cathedral and appears not to have suffered damage during World War II so that there is much architectural variety from many eras including the nineteenth and early twentieth century too . |
| 4 | It 's full of exotic flowers to attract and feed them . |
| 5 | It is reminiscent of circular interiors like S. Michael at Fulda in Germany . |
| 6 | Er the House of lords is not a particularly passionate place but er nevertheless it is capable of strong feelings and er I do n't think it it expressed a fairly clear opinion on this occasion . |
| 7 | However , it is characteristic of quantified patterns that they can conceal what lies behind them and so they can be interpreted much more deeply than in this unilinear way . |
| 8 | It is characteristic of theoretical linguists that they select example sentences that computational linguists would categorise as pathological . |
| 9 | It is characteristic of convergent designs by human engineers too , of course . |
| 10 | The argument is frivolous firstly because conceptually it is full of elementary mistakes , the primary one being the equation of ‘ sexuality ’ with ‘ gender ’ . |
| 11 | But it is full of frustrating inconsistencies , with the central auto-da-fe scene standing out in almost shocking relief from everything else . |
| 12 | It is full of little gems , whose length disguises the stature of their contents . |
| 13 | It is full of little valleys and defiles . |
| 14 | On a grey winter day , with an Atlantic gale blowing , it is full of huge vases of electric-pink old-fashioned roses and the smell of Lagerfeld 's favourite opopanax candles . |
| 15 | It is full of amusing anecdotes and also contains useful tips from pro-am partners such as Lee Trevino , Sandy Lyle and Jose Maria Olazabal . |
| 16 | Er , as I said the government has already accepted when we introduced the legislation last year in the criminal justice act on money laundering , that there are far wider er interests and fidrer fi far wider implications than there have been ever before and I think the government needs to do a little bit more to show that it is aware of international implications and the sheer scale of what we 're dealing with and er I touched earlier on the question of indemnity , er perhaps the minister could specifically address that point . |
| 17 | IT WAS shameful of British owners to enter racehorses in the Breeders Cup in Florida — the 90-degree heat and dirt track must have put these horses in great distress . |
| 18 | I think that my hon. Friend the Member for Tooting displayed the facts well , and it was perverse of Conservative Members to pick him up for a slip of the tongue when he gave an incorrect figure , which it is relatively easy to do . |
| 19 | It was full of long tables that seated from six and eight to a dozen or more . |
| 20 | According to Plutarch , writing in highly refined Greek circles in the early second century AD : ‘ Before this , Rome neither had nor even knew of these exqusite and refined things , nor was there in the city any love of what was charming and elegant ; rather , it was full of barbaric weapons and bloody spoils . ’ |
| 21 | The leaflet angered parents , staff and governors because they said it was full of misleading statements and the individuals who produced it had not identified themselves . |
| 22 | This was written in this pink book , it was full of wee cheques . |
| 23 | It was full of red jewels . |
| 24 | It was full of wooden drawers and cupboards and enormous heavy mirrors on stands and boxes of buttons and threads and trimming . |
| 25 | It was full of amusing anecdotes about his life as a policeman . |
| 26 | I gather it was full of old papers and stuff . ’ |
| 27 | It 's like well it 's all been done out but it was full of old croakers and you know an old man 's sort of like the legion . |