Example sentences of "[adv] it [be] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd have a little fancy shawl or My Grandma used to always have a fancy shawl that Just a small thing that came , you know , a bit down their back and And my Grandma used to wear erm a white much It was just thing like a baby 's A cotton thing , tied with a just a string , you know just to erm just a tie under her chin and it would have a wee bit of lace s on the corner , or the or the end of the tie , that was through the day and it was all ruffled , and then when she was on holiday and came into town she had a a thing on her head made of velvet and it all had fancy little things in it . |
| 2 | And the other one , I think , when it shuts down it 's just sort of se a semi-sa er scan . |
| 3 | Perhaps it 's just knowledge . |
| 4 | Perhaps it was also relief at not seeing a flood of overpriced Japanese owned art back on the market , or the sense that the cloud of economic recession might be lifting . |
| 5 | Or perhaps it was just lack of choice , the need for a home of her own and a child . |
| 6 | Perhaps it was only youth and the shock of his father 's murder , his brother 's suicide , that had made him so . |
| 7 | It 's only it 's only fun , I mean what are you gon na give them ? |
| 8 | Oh right , right , just so it 's just mum and dad we 're . |
| 9 | so it 's about time we actually saw that the policy was doing |
| 10 | By the time you 've mastered gybing , you can sail in almost any direction and so it 's now time to look at the five essentials for sailing well . |
| 11 | So it 's basically Age Concern saying they 're quite happy and the staff are quite happy about transferring but they 're not happy on taking on board , er , er , potential redundancy liability which has arisen because they will employ these people directly . |
| 12 | So it was just luck really ? |
| 13 | So it was just kind of what ever enthusiasm there was washed away with that . |
| 14 | And at that stage it was too late to go down the rope so it was just instinct more than anything else that we just jumped over the side from where we were then . |
| 15 | For days Mr Hurd has been criticising the Israelis for the harsh treatment of the Palestinians , so it was only politic of the government here to invite him to the Yadvashim memorial to the Holocaust . |
| 16 | I 'm sure I seen it , or was it , less it was only club book I seen it in . |
| 17 | A : Not at all ; it could be done even here — merely increase the supply of money until it becomes something of little value , as plentiful as grass : let it grow on every street corner , pour from the high street banks : see how little by little it is of less and less value : soon it is only stuff fit to engage the attention of those who love to indulge in the act of recycling : we will probably find that , pulped , bank notes are an excellent media for growing acorns into oaks . |
| 18 | We were helping Victorine , Léonie said : anyway it 's nearly suppertime . |
| 19 | Now making these points to and then to go backwards still about what we 've been talking about and that is it 's the same with the opera and what you were saying about Harry Enfield and everything else , that you can an and Billy Connolly , you can bring certain groups of people into areas where they would n't previously have been , but you will not necessarily take them on the next leaf so for example , this is all gon na sound snobby and I 'm sorry but you know I mean a lot of people like Gilbert and Sullivan for example , but will not move on to Bizet or whatever it is and will never do that and I mean I have a problem with that I mean it , to me it 's not we 're not it 's just reality , but we have to understand that I mean we have to understand that in the context of sponsorship |
| 20 | She glanced at her watch ; already it was well past four and Iris would be expecting her at five . |
| 21 | ‘ Usually it 's just meanness , is n't it , not principle ? ’ |
| 22 | . Hopefully it was either sympathy or generosity , but still , they might find you a pair of trousers or a blazer , or even a tie . |
| 23 | Still it is now part of the larger narrative , and read as that it suggests a period of peaceful coexistence before their final parting . |
| 24 | Also it was about time he learnt that bossing her around would n't be a push-over for him . |
| 25 | I go shopping every day , and by the time I come back it 's usually time for the baby to have her food at about twelve — and then she usually sleeps till about two , and then I cook lunch for him [ the two-year-old ] so that in the evening it 's a tea , although it 's usually a cooked tea . |
| 26 | So when they brought the seat back it was about quarter quarter to six I think . |
| 27 | But talking changes nothing , and for now it is only talk . |
| 28 | ‘ Now it 's just jungle . ’ |
| 29 | Now it 's almost hour by hour as it 's very difficult to know what morphine dose Ruth should be on . |
| 30 | Some signal had obviously been given , though Alexandra had not seen it , and now it was plainly time for everyone to turn and talk to their other neighbour . |