Example sentences of "[verb] it [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has it been a distinctive political culture , citizens being prepared to acquiesce in and , when called on , to support the demands made of them by government ? |
| 2 | Now what essentially , what you 're doing , is that you 're writing an essay in very , very condensed form , so it 's just , I mean you still , still must have the same recipe in there when you write a short answer , right , but you just have to be very , very brief , so you know , para paragraph on definition , you know , paragraph of examples , right , erm , paragraph on some sort of explanation or erm , how it 's , how it 's measured erm , has it been a contentious issue erm , what are the problems with this er , with this concept erm , right , you 've got to get those sort of things in there , like you would in an essay , if you were asked to write an essay on reciprocal dumping you 'd , you 'd have all those things in there , right , but you only need to write a sentence , a sentence about them . |
| 3 | Of those , of those thirty nine has a , has it been a good experience or not ? |
| 4 | The house price collapse of the last few years has been a terrible dose of cold turkey for the home owning classes , but has it been a long enough agony to drive out the idea that there 's something inherently beneficial about rising house prices . |
| 5 | Has it been a pleasant experience ? |
| 6 | Has it been a happy one that augurs well for the ‘ marriage ’ of your two households ? |
| 7 | For none of the above has it been a lonely battle . |
| 8 | Er most of my points have actually dried up now , sir , in view of what Mr Cunnane has said , and also Mr Jewitt , erm I do actually , I would try to emphasize a point that the people who are proposing new settlements in this location have judiciously avoided the question of need this afternoon , well I think we we almost came to the point this morning that the shortfall was nine hundred and reducing almost on a month by month basis , er one or two quick points I would like to pick up , er in view of the erm small nature or the shortfall in housing supply that we see over the next fifteen years , I can not accept that to avoid the new settlement option would be prejudicial to greenbelt objectives , erm the housing land supply allocations are almost there , there are plans to run through which will un almost inevitably allocate additional sites inside the inner edge of the greenbelt boundary and outside the outer edge of the greenbelt boundary , but both within Greater York , which are bound to assist in making up the shortfall of provision , and probably , if I suspect rightly , would actually exceed it , erm erm I agree with Mr Cunnane on the question of the alternative expansion of existing towns or settlements , the same point really , we 're almost there anyway , the op that option is already there , it 's not that it might be there , it is it is there at the moment , er it 's not a clear expression of local preference , and I would also point out the option of the environmental improvements under the P P G criteria you asked us to look at , erm whether it 's a thousand houses , two thousand , two and a half thousand , whether it has a bowling alley , or a ten pin bowling alley , and a B and Q , and a , probably a Tesco as well , this form of development will not sit comfortably in open countryside , almost , wherever it 's put within the Greater York area , I defy anyone to produce a site where one can satisfactorily put er such a massive form of urban development and suggest it 's a positive environmental improvement . |
| 9 | I do n't even know it 's a good idea they should be sorted out . |
| 10 | Do n't know it 's a mauve , something . |
| 11 | I do n't know it 's a hundred and fifty or something . |
| 12 | I did n't know it was a carding mill . |
| 13 | I do not know if it was the first time since his appointment as executive chef at the Carlton Tower in 1968 , but I do know it was a rare occurrence to see him even emerge from his kitchen , let alone dine . |
| 14 | I do n't know it was a two liner , um an intro an introduction to marketing and P R and an introduction to internal communications were talking about you know the house newspaper , now that 's the |
| 15 | And he 's justifying it being a violent process . |
| 16 | And also you 'll like it because the cardinal who designed it was a practical joker and built in all sorts of extremely infantile jokes so that he could spray water onto his innocent friends while they were eating their dinner or trying to watch little masques . |
| 17 | As Holy Communion was by tradition the first food and drink of the day , the tea left a feeling of guilt for I was told never to tell anyone although I expect it was a common practice amongst lady communicants . |
| 18 | The 901 in the engine number signifies it is a 2 25 litre , 81 compression ratio and three main bearing unit |
| 19 | Sandy Island is incredible — just two miles out from Sandy Ground it is a tiny mound of dazzling white sand with room for ten coconut trees and a bar run by Neville and his friends . |
| 20 | Anybody over forty I say it is a legitimate time to talk to people about self employment . |
| 21 | Start-rite say it is a private road in a traffic-free park . |
| 22 | I just say it is a strong possibility . |
| 23 | ‘ You say it is a good tool , sir ! ’ |
| 24 | Many industry observers say it is a declining brand . |
| 25 | Like ya , like you say it is a difficult situation at the moment in n it ? |
| 26 | Well as I say it is a different company now . |
| 27 | That 's the first and they 'll be the ones that will be able to tell you why they 've taken that decision and why we say it 's a reasonable decision . |
| 28 | Supporters say it 's a nutritious and healthy food . |
| 29 | This time the weight of the lorry , it 's the weight of the lorry we 're interested it 's a say it 's a small van . |
| 30 | Not wishing to come down on either side , the planners say it 's a nice fence but high fences near roads need permission . |