Example sentences of "it be a [adj] [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a well-founded Dales village , mentioned in the Domesday Book , with a fascinating and somewhat turbulent , if bizarre history Cotherstone Castle , which loomed over the confluence of the rivers Tees and Balder , is now just a heap of rubble . |
| 2 | Alright here we go then ; the first race tonight is seven thirty erm it 's a twelve ways programme , but the first erm selection 's in the second race which is the seven forty five , and this is a name two grade , four fifty metres erm which is five hundred yards . |
| 3 | Now in this particular game it 's a limited overs game ; fifty overs a side , one side will win tomorrow er so there will be a definite result , and we think we 've got a strong side . |
| 4 | Now it is totally true , that the start of that O C S contract was a disaster , and it is also true that several months on , the pay of the cleaners is still not being correctly done , and concerns are being raised in the governors , it 's a four years contract , being an L M S contract , and under G M S they are submitting one year contracts . |
| 5 | Since , since Norwich , you just ca n't delegate like erm , you just ha , you do n't have any other management there , only section managers , and you delegate that job to er , supervisors , erm , it 's a very on-hands management situation . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's a 90 minutes game , ’ pointed out veteran George McCluskey . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's a 90 minutes game , ’ pointed out veteran George McCluskey . |
| 8 | it 's a repeated measures design . |
| 9 | It is a small police post with cells at the back . |
| 10 | As to placing cable patterns , there is no need to have them all over the garment , unless it is a classic sports sweater . |
| 11 | As you know it is a 24 hours job looking after a child/young adult with special needs . |
| 12 | ‘ The DUC operated as a kind of umbrella organization and there was a little group in all the different localities where uranium prospecting was going on … and each of these groups had their own little committee of two or three people who were feeding back information to the DUC and it was a real grassroots organization then . ’ |
| 13 | It was a real rags-to-riches story . |
| 14 | After all it was a legitimate weapons cargo , however much Britain might disapprove . |
| 15 | So it was a public relations effort ? |
| 16 | It was a resounding narcotics sensation that first threatened the film industry with obliteration back in 1920 when the handsome Wallace Reid , a public idol created by The Birth of a Nation , ran afoul of federal authorities . ’ |
| 17 | It was a big sports night . ’ |
| 18 | It was an armoured personnel carrier with a 20 mm weapon fit in a turret . |