Example sentences of "it be [vb pp] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That that used to be mentioned between us er er a few times , I can remember it being mentioned a few times . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | IBM is saying it 's delivered a million copies of OS/2 and predicts it could reach two million by the end of the year : Microsoft Corp voiced scepticism about the number to The Wall Street Journal to which IBM VP Jim Cannavino retorted , ‘ A stork did n't bring [ the one million copies ] and I assure you I have n't cooked the books . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ A bad argument remains a bad argument even if it is repeated a thousand times . ’ |
| 5 | It was sounded a few years ago by Helen Gardner in In Defence of the Imagination , by the contributors to Laurence Lerner 's Reconstructing Literature , and in America by Gerald Graff 's Literature Against Itself ( Graff 's position has shifted somewhat in his more recent Professing Literature ) . |
| 6 | It was completed a few months after its companion piece ( the G major Quartet Op. 106 and subsequently the composer devoted himself to programmatic tone poems and operas . |
| 7 | Why was the lignite option given such short shrift by NIE when it was raised a few years ago ? |
| 8 | But it was followed a few months later by sort of mini riot . |
| 9 | However , I changed my mind about the seriousness of Denning 's pronouncements when it was declared a few weeks later that the case of the Birmingham Six was to be reconsidered . |
| 10 | Without the motor car in mind , I mean for instance , we had Oxford , Reading and Swindon it was suggested a few years ago , that they got together and formed the Thames Valley United . |
| 11 | It was found a few miles from his car on the seashore near Great Yarmouth . |
| 12 | He rapped three times on the door of Room 144 , it was opened a few inches . |