Example sentences of "it is a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are following the recipe opposite for Pesto alla Genovese , do try to get some Pecorino to mix with the Parmesan — it is a sharp ewes ' milk cheese that really adds an extra bite to any pasta dish . |
| 2 | A Trent-Jones design , it is a challenging links that demands accurate shot-making , especially to the small undulating greens so characteristic of its architect . |
| 3 | It is a thousand pities that the writ of praemunire which Henry VIII used against Wolsey etc. was no longer available to prevent them ; for despite the fair-seeming terminology of Human Rights , the result is incompatible with the elementary principles of justice and of democracy as we understand them . |
| 4 | It is a small police post with cells at the back . |
| 5 | As to placing cable patterns , there is no need to have them all over the garment , unless it is a classic sports sweater . |
| 6 | I believe it is a hundred times better to have a leader who wants to go forward rather than one who retreats towards the hills when the going gets rough . |
| 7 | Lot number seven Lot seven the rosewater sprinkler Lot number seven there it is a hundred pounds for this one , one hundred pounds and ten , a hundred and ten pounds . |
| 8 | It is a hundred jobs per hundred thousand square feet , that 's right . |
| 9 | It is a hundred miles from King 's lions |
| 10 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 11 | And it is a symmetric arms race because the nature of the success and failure on the two sides is the same : attainment of sunlight and being overshadowed , respectively . |
| 12 | As you know it is a 24 hours job looking after a child/young adult with special needs . |
| 13 | If we consider an ordinary tree , by the time it is a few years old it has usually acquired a number of little branches , coming out more or less horizontally from the main stem or trunk . |
| 14 | I mean it is a few years back but I can remember not long ago it was eighteen P |
| 15 | Pluralists agree with Mills that it is a post-war phenomena and arises due to the United States ' need to take on a new world role The military fill the political vacuum which exists in foreign policy-making , and this brings them into close contact with the industrial firms which prospered out of the Second World War . |
| 16 | It is a true arms race in which success on either side is felt as failure by the other side , but the nature of the success and failure on the two sides is very different . |
| 17 | 'T IS a wild wolves ' moon that stares at me |