Example sentences of "it be a [adj] [noun] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At last someone has had the nerve to bring the area in line with the rest of British climbing : no longer will it be a quiet backwater resigned to a few lines in the climbing press about some brilliant new VDiff on a puny little crag in the back of beyond . |
| 2 | As soon as she finds one she paralyses it , using her long sting as though it were a hypodermic syringe loaded with anaesthetic . |
| 3 | The poet writes as if the train were a woman to give it a more human and emotional element and to allow the reader to be involved with the journey on a deeper level than would be necessary if it were a simple poem taken from an objective rather than a personal view . |
| 4 | So Freud is not saying religion is a delusion or an error , he 's saying it 's an illusion , and it 's an illusion because it 's a factual mistake maintained by wish fulfilment . |
| 5 | But it 's a one-woman play performed by solo artiste Peri Aston on Tuesday 27th April at 7.30 pm in St Wilfrid 's Church , Chapel Street , Preston . |
| 6 | Again in any traffic model there are pluses and minuses , the simplistic assumption is and it 's it 's a common techniques used in in in in traffic models er for for schemes of this type er that you do use all or nothing . |
| 7 | ‘ I want to want ’ , the underground man 's lonely cry , is also his though he does n't utter it , and biting the governor 's car , like sticking the tongue out , is a one-against-all drumming of the heels of consciousness — but again with a difference which is that the biting extends beyond the notional ; it happens and it hurts , though it 's a minor foray compared with Raskolnikov 's spectacular eruption into actuality with the murder . |
| 8 | It 's a little bit advanced . |
| 9 | It 's a literary journey told by the wife of Bee Gee Robin Gibb . |
| 10 | Exactly like in the movies — it 's a special effects shot — and you look up , and the house right in front of you is in flames . ’ |
| 11 | It 's a special variety planted only two months ago . |
| 12 | It 's a beautiful creation designed without thought for its function . |
| 13 | He has a blessing to give his eldest and favourite son , but it is a poor thing compared with Jacob 's , so poor it is hardly recognizable as a blessing and could be taken for a curse : |
| 14 | A more difficult question in relation to severable contracts is whether a breach of condition in relation to one or more instalments entitles the innocent party to regard the whole contract as repudiated or whether it is a severable breach confined to the instalments in question . |
| 15 | Ought not the pharmacologist or the villager to obey the law , given that it is a good law issued by a just government ? |
| 16 | It is a mid-18th-century mansion built by the famous architect , John Adam , and typically consists of a main building with two connecting wings . |
| 17 | This book does not aim to be a comprehensive text covering the philosophy and principles of Homoeopathy ; it is a practical book designed to be used by anyone wishing to treat the common acute illnesses , particularly those occurring during childhood . |
| 18 | Its unacceptability would be shared by a great number of people , except that it is a levelling process restricted to a single aspect of human life , whereas the advantages of wealth can operate effectively and valuably in so many others . |
| 19 | The emphasis of the book from now on is of a pragmatic nature , but I hope it is a sanctified pragmatism applied to operating within and shaping the contemporary manifestations of the Church of Christ . |
| 20 | It is a modern building built about thirty years ago . |
| 21 | It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit . |
| 22 | This does not convey authority over the specialist ; it is a co-ordinating role added to the specialist role . |
| 23 | It is a confidential service staffed by professionally trained counsellors . |
| 24 | It is a powerful text based database , primarily set up by typing in field names and parameters . |
| 25 | It is a computer-generated image based on the calligraphy of Kobo Daishi , the 9th century monk who is said to have invented the Japanese phonetic script . |
| 26 | Just 200 yards from the centre of town , it is a cool oasis set in a beautiful , mature garden with deckchairs . |
| 27 | A charming cluster of house , rectory and church , it is a perfect gem set in peaceful parkland overlooking its lakes . |
| 28 | In the Lepismatidae and Pterygota the hypopharynx is typically a simple lobe with a number of suspensory sclerites but in most Diptera it is a stylet-like structure pierced by the salivary canal and in some cases is used as a piercing organ . |
| 29 | It is a white villa hidden in pine-trees in the tree-clad part of the island , Calavría . |
| 30 | It is a free workshop run by four musicians-producers who have worked with many of the great names : Pete Towhshend , Chaka Khan , Desmond Dekker , Alexander O'Neal , Joan Armatrading , The Gypsy Kings and question mark Sinitta . |