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Example sentences of "it be [vb pp] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	‘ I did n't work hard enough at marriage — it 's remained a huge sadness to me ’
2	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 .
3	It 's become a major part of my job .
4	‘ It 's become a big problem , bigger than just the problem facing us , ’ said a Williams team insider last night .
5	It 's become a life-long commitment , although I 'm not complaining .
6	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 .
7	It 's made a great thoroughfare in the dining area and broken the dining area up a bit .
8	She says that it 's made a great difference , the swan can now struggle to it 's feet .
9	And it 's made a lovely edging for a wooden tray , coated in varnish once the paste is dry . , .
10	It 's understood a new report will say there 's no evidence it works better than traditional methods .
11	It 's cost a vast amount of money and time .
12	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 .
13	You call it , I think it 's called a maxi-dowment plan .
14	They do another sort and that 's really nice , it 's called a nutty Vera
15	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 .
16	It 's called a Bubbly Jock
17	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 .
18	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 .
19	The P G C is a difficult course to fill , really , for the people who are organising it , because although it 's called a one-year course , in fact it lasts eight months in practice , and there are so many aspects that have to be fitted in something has to go .
20	Assertion comes into being when you still bring the conversation back this is what I want nothing else will do , and bringing it right the way back all the time to discuss what it is why it 's called a broken record exercise , we 'll give it a quick go now .
21	Its a sort of signature — you can recognise that particular kind of star — it 's called a sephied variable , and we know how bright that is and so we can use that to get distances to nearby galaxies .
22	It 's cast a terrible gloom over everything . ’
23	It 's seemed a funny day .
24	They 're based on nativity scenes taken from stained glass windows , and for at least one local church it 's meant a thousand-pound Christmas bonus .
25	Britain 's biggest flower show opened today , but for some people it 's meant a special outing for the last two weeks .
26	It 's proved a good way of picking up and pigeonholing the plight of the young middle classes living in a country in retreat .
27	‘ It 's taken a long time for the guilt to surface . ’
28	In Oxford for the past 18 months , it 's taken a peculiar form when youths perform stunts in high performance cars in front of crowds .
29	It 's added a certain anticipation as well to the placement job I 've been doing — ‘ Oh come on someone must have something to say ’ was a regular feeling/thought as I looked at the monitor in anticipation .
30	He said ‘ Okay , I want you to show me everything , ’ and I said ‘ Well , there are six strings , they 're tuned like this and written down an octave , ’ ( For those that do n't know , when guitar music is transposed onto a stave , it 's dropped a whole octave to keep it on the treble clef — Ed ) and he was taking notes and I gave him a beginning guitar book so that he could see how it was all written out !