Example sentences of "[conj] it [be] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unbeknown to all , though , Harry 's bird arrived in Lisbon in 1975 , where it 's Swiss owners gave it the wrong name a nom-de-plume if you like . |
| 2 | Where it 's two males , male applicant and a male interviewer , and the prospective employee has a less prestigious accent than the interviewer , so it 's quite likely that the prospective employee would shift his accent towards a more that of the employer , due to his relative need of approval so much more than vice versa . |
| 3 | Now Channel 4 has gone and the sport is back where it was six years ago . |
| 4 | Medical practice booklets four years ago or it 's five years now I guess , five years ago erm er it 's almost five , legislation was brought in by the then Health Secretary Ken Clarke now our dear Chancellor . |
| 5 | Although it is early days and the team will not be reporting back until March , what is already becoming clear to it is that , unless small firms are encouraged to continue training chartered accountants , the smaller end of the profession may not have a future at all . |
| 6 | Although it is early days yet , should we be that club , then it can only spell disaster . |
| 7 | ‘ They are all healthy and all stable , although it is early days yet , ’ said the spokesman . |
| 8 | ICI 's catalysts are used extensively in the production of ammonia , hydrogen and methanol , although it is developing markets in refining petrochemicals and organic synthesis . |
| 9 | Although it is 40 years since I was called-up , the memories of that part of my life are still vivid and I still have my flying logbook to refresh my memory . |
| 10 | Although it is 40 years since the incident , I urge my right hon. Friend to give urgent consideration to the case because the suffering of Derek Bentley 's family continues day in and day out . |
| 11 | Although it 's two years later they 've got to resell at the price that er it 's been discounted more or less . |
| 12 | Six of our residents took part in a driving exercise and we demonstrated that clearly and this is for your benefit we 'll give it to you , although it 's three miles longer to the point where the A sixty one joins the A one , even with the present state of the A one , it is ten minutes quicker to go via the A six five eight , A fifty nine , A one route . |
| 13 | Crocheted antimacassars graced the backs of all the chairs although it was many years since a gentleman with pomade on his hair had sat in one of them . |
| 14 | Two sizeable works had gone in under two hours , although it was forty-eight hours before new outbreaks ceased . |
| 15 | With this went the prospect of renting better housing , of buying the new consumer items , and for those on £4 , with small families , the prospect of buying their own semi-detached houses — although it was manual workers who earned more than £4 who were likely to do that . |
| 16 | Mrs Gracie still called Nathan Holland the young gentleman , although it was several years now since he had become practically an inmate of the house . |
| 17 | Although it was 12 years ago , both vividly remember the day they learned about their parents ' seperation . |
| 18 | Yeah econ what appears to be the case is that it 's economic reasons that are the main drive , the main driving factors from er the migrant . |
| 19 | Okay right erm , so what seems to emerge is that it 's economic factors that are the most important er determinants affecting the migrant 's decision . |
| 20 | Fourteen ninety nine Out of that it 's all bottles ey or most of them bottles . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's just a small celebration in honour of the fact that it 's six years to the day tomorrow since Filippo and I met — ’ She broke off and giggled . |
| 22 | I had a feeling that it 's six weeks |
| 23 | it 's twenty two so that means that it 's ten degrees ten above zero . |
| 24 | Khan persisted : ‘ We 've already established that it 's 65 times sweeter than sugar . ’ |
| 25 | Not that it 's any thanks to you ! ’ |
| 26 | Suave and sophisticated at 60 , it 's hard to believe that it 's 23 years since he first wooed a generation with Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head . |
| 27 | Microsoft says that it is developing tools which will enable C and C++ developers building Windows-based applications to target the Macintosh . |
| 28 | If New Yorkers notice it at all , few have any idea that it is 1,500 years old , and many would be deeply shocked if they knew , reckoning that anything over 20 years old must be dirty and out of date . |
| 29 | It 's something both they and lesbians have always been blamed for , despite the now well-publicized fact that it is heterosexual men who commit by far the most assaults on boys , as well as girls . |
| 30 | We have all had our share of fruitless journeys to find our dream home , set amid magnificent rolling countryside , only to find that it is 200 yards from the noisy A12 , hemmed in by an ugly industrial building , with a pungent smell of pigs wafting across the garden . |