Example sentences of "it be a [adj] [noun] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The village felt rather as if it were a hopeful ark floating in isolation while the rest of the world was covered over , hidden from sight by watery winter . |
| 2 | But if it were an ancient castle standing there against the skyline , if what we looked out at tomorrow morning was a row of turrets , we 'd probably be saying how magnificent it is . ’ |
| 3 | It 's a world-wide occuptation showing dogs . |
| 4 | I know that 's difficult to provide erm , and the money 's got to be found for that , but it , it 's a mixed blessing putting elderly people into , a lot are put into our homes , which I agree are very good the majority of them , they 're very nice , but the people who 're put into them , they give up their own homes , and then they get a bit better six months later , and they say , ooh , I just want to go back to my home now . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's a complex process inspecting a large boarding school and no inspector has received training to undertake this work . |
| 6 | It 's a strange sensation levelling out from the climb at six hundred feet and trimming into the glide before passing the end of the runway . |
| 7 | He added : ‘ It 's a tartan army going forth to bring home gold . ’ |
| 8 | It 's a good way trying to teach them colours is n't it ? |
| 9 | ‘ Oi vey , in the country it 's a real tzuriss getting from village to village . |
| 10 | But I do n't know thing is it 's a real hassle carrying it around is n't it ? |
| 11 | It 's a terrible trial havin' big feet . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ It 's a downright disgrace wasting the ratepayers ' money like this . ’ |
| 13 | It 's a great events coming here is n't it ? |
| 14 | It 's a great pleasure seeing their friends again like this after so long . |
| 15 | It 's a full-time job looking after an MS patient , ’ she added , then glanced quickly at him to see what effect her words had . |
| 16 | It 's a huge area expending from Lancashire into Cumbria , with around 120 square miles of mud and sand at low tide . |
| 17 | This record sounds deranged at either 33 ( where you can pretend it 's a fat bloke singing ) or 45 ( where it becomes apparent that an agitated woman is handling the vocal chores ) . |
| 18 | I bet you are I bet you are it 's a lovely way getting thin it 's good is n't it ? |
| 19 | Well it 's a big thing losing your son at that age is n't it ? |
| 20 | The sun is just a star , one of many thousands of millions of stars in our own galaxy , which is the milky way , which we see as we look up in the sky on a very dark night , and it was called the milky way by the ancients because it looked like a splash of milk across the sky , but we now know that it 's a flattened system consisting of these thousands of millions of stars . |
| 21 | It 's a vital thread running through all our business development activities and the emphasis is on applications technology — designing new products for individual customers . |
| 22 | It 's a vital rule allowing people to talk freely , including sex offenders . |
| 23 | It 's a steady pressure trying to push that through , and we increase the resistance , we make more resistance |
| 24 | It 's a 96-page hardback containing information on all Fender guitars , from the 1950 Broadcaster to the 1992 SRV Strat . |
| 25 | The sweeping contours of the hill at that point have always reminded me of a huge wave about to break , and it 's an uncomfortable thought trying to imagine where you might stop for lunch , and what would happen if you dropped your orange . |
| 26 | It 's an all-time record befitting the 8 times champion jockey who once won 221 races in a season . |
| 27 | It 's an individual singer carrying a famous name . |
| 28 | It 's an expensive business having so many children … the weekly shopping list includes a hundred and twenty five pounds of potatoes , twenty one loaves of bread and seventy pints of milk . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's an international career coming to a close and one that people have been full of admiration for for over a decade . ’ |
| 30 | It 's an old English saying . ’ |