Example sentences of "[adj] [art] [noun sg] it " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Is that the hour it 's at ? ’ |
2 | Is n't that the way it happened , Mr Feather ? |
3 | Is that the way it goes is it ? |
4 | Matthew , Mark oh eh , sorry The gospel it might be . |
5 | Was this the way it had begun for the crew ? |
6 | But this the way it 's it 's er accepted here is completely unacceptable in my view . |
7 | ‘ Ebeneezer Goode ’ would n't have been half the phenomenon it was without that promo vid . |
8 | It 'll be half the price it is in Boot 's Cookshop . |
9 | The Isle of Man Coastal Path or Raad ny Foillan ( Way of the Gull ) is a route that does n't get half the publicity it deserves . |
10 | And third , huge spending programmes are dumped on the city by the state and federal governments , leaving City Hall with discretionary power over less than half the money it spends . |
11 | And you 'll find for half the pack it 's one a day and then for the second half of the pack it 's two a day . |
12 | Labour 's spokeswoman on the economy , Margaret Beckett , says the Chancellor has n't stolen her Party 's cloak , and says that if the government had taken her Party 's advice a year ago , the economy would n't have gone through half the pain it has . |
13 | " Half the flour it makes , old marshwife , " said the miller . |
14 | You can no longer say , ‘ OK , but there will be a smart worker who will learn how to do that in half the time it takes now ’ . |
15 | The four system units will be organised around products — mainframe computers , mid-range , self-service terminal systems and application software , and is intended significantly to cut the time it takes for products to get to market — the aim is to cut in half the time it takes to develop products and bring them to the market . |
16 | That 's only half the time it took me last time . |
17 | We surfed that channel in half the time it normally takes and then towards the end of our Connemara trip , even after a couple of longer crossings where she admitted she was cursing the disappearing stern of my glassfibres boat , she wanted to buy the Seayak . |
18 | Half the time it was n't Clemence she was getting at — it was me . |
19 | ( E.g. if fine-class phonemic descriptions unambiguously described spoken utterances , it would still be pointless to use them if it took the processor weeks to find them in the acoustic input and half the time it got them wrong . ) |
20 | And also , but half the time it 's the problem arises because it 's , the machines gone to personnel without something , and then we 've got to spend time either chasing it up or getting another bit or going round in circles . |
21 | If the world did n't contain those beautiful creatures , he 'd decided , it was n't half the world it ought to be . |
22 | The General , half the beast it used to be and back in the red at the mid-point of 1992 , will be lucky to break even this year , despite vast attempts over the last three years to clear the decks and keep a tight ship . |
23 | ICI , which developed the R12 replacement , has cut its production of CFCs to roughly half the amount it manufactured three years ago . |
24 | Their retail value is £15,000 , about half the amount it costs to feed the birds here each year . ’ |
25 | The particle being exchanged in a sense ‘ borrows its mass from the force field ; the heavier the mass , the shorter the time it can be borrowed , and , therefore , the shorter the range of the force . |
26 | Which is , is quite interesting the way it actually works out . |
27 | Try to avoid telling your child to be careful every time it goes to play with a friend . |
28 | Responsible , neighbourly and democratic , for nearly half a century it has been as gemütlich abroad as it has been at home , pulling either its weight or its punches as the occasion demanded . |
29 | Everybody 's door was open , whatever they had was shared you know whatever one ever had , an even it was only half a loaf it was there . |
30 | In half an hour it was all planned . |