Example sentences of "it be the [adj] of [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ You 'll all have to do the same as me and put down the date and see , but if yer want ter know it 's the first of May . ’ |
2 | When it is the first day , put your hands down while we 're ex while I 'm explaining this , when you say when it 's the first day of any month whether it 's the first of February or the first of April or the first of December , instead of say you say this word you say for the first of the month |
3 | Jackie said to me last week she said , well it 's the first of December . |
4 | It 's the six of diamonds . |
5 | ‘ It 's the second of July , ’ she said in horror ; ‘ the show is only ten days away . ’ |
6 | It 's the seventh of September . . |
7 | it 's the third of May . |
8 | It 's the twelfth of July is last year the er |
9 | it 's the twelfth of July of last year they had one . |
10 | In this bleak kitchen it 's the dead of night , but around me half the block will not yet be asleep . |
11 | In cases like that it 's the next of kin they want . |
12 | What so it 's the fourth of May now ? |
13 | It 's the fourteenth of July is Bastille Day . |
14 | I know it 's it 's the sixth of June |
15 | It is the first of June tomorrow , yes . |
16 | I come back to Stuart and I said it is the second of November is n't it ? |
17 | It is the second of Billy Roche 's Wexford trilogy plays about small-town life in Wexford , southern Ireland . |
18 | It is the second of Mr Harvey 's voyages of self-discovery : in the first , ‘ A Journey in Ladakh ’ , written eight years ago , he began to embrace Buddhism under the influence of a monk in exile from Tibet . |
19 | It is the nineteenth of February , which one does it fall on theirs ? |
20 | By common consent , it is the prettiest of Scotland 's west coast villages and , although small , is well endowed with a large modern school serving a wide area , a railway station and even an airfield . |
21 | I think it is the loveliest of Scotland 's freshwater lochs . |
22 | It is the happiest of coincidences for them that on this day when the mind of thinking adults in this country is concentrated on whom not to vote for , the Masters opens at Augusta . |
23 | Mm , it was the eleventh of October nineteen thirty nine . |
24 | Elizabeth was going to subscribe to the mysteries around the world , she loved reading Amanda Howard mysteries , but she was also looking forward to tomorrow because it was the first of April , April fool day , April fools day . |
25 | It was the closest of calls , and what the book enthrallingly brings out is how much it all depended on this handful of enthusiasts to preserve an enclave unique in London . |
26 | It was the best of times , it was the worst of times … |
27 | " It was the best of times ; it was the worst of times " . |
28 | We are back with the ninth century as a historiographical battleground : " It was the best of times , it was the worst of times … " |
29 | It was the ninth of November , the evening before his thirty-eighth birthday . |
30 | It was the last of Richard Avedon 's books to be designed by Marvin Israel , his close associate on many projects , who worked in close collaboration with Elizabeth Avedon ( daughter-in-law of the photographer ) . |