Example sentences of "it 's [verb] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | First of all you 're keeping them alive , then you see them getting steadily better and you know it 's getting through to them . |
| 2 | This is , er , this is the same face as you , yesterday I was on about , we 've tried everything , it 's getting down to that now . |
| 3 | It 's getting back to a sensible level again , and the music — especially the British music — is really pushing forward . ’ |
| 4 | It 's building up to critical . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ That storm still looks as if it 's building up to me , ’ said Jimmy . |
| 6 | Is it the valuable service it 's made out to be ? |
| 7 | ‘ All this modelling is n't half as glamorous as it 's made out to be . |
| 8 | People who live in towns donlt understand what goes on in the countryside.It 's hard for us to explain why this great tradition should be preserved , but it is n't the barbaric activity it 's made out to be . |
| 9 | People who live in towns donlt understand what goes on in the countryside.It 's hard for us to explain why this great tradition should be preserved , but it is n't the barbaric activity it 's made out to be . |
| 10 | ‘ This has always been my favourite room , ’ says Mary Jane , ‘ and it 's turned out to be a perfect playroom for Emily and her friends . |
| 11 | You 've got an S O four with two bonds on it and it 's holding on to a hydrogen |
| 12 | It 's shaping up to be an exciting climax to the group and I know Billy Bingham wants to end his managerial career on a high note . ’ |
| 13 | The caravanning life is n't all it 's painted up to be . |
| 14 | That 's what you want , a decent endowment , it takes out all the fluctuations , and er the they 've big reserves , and of course the minute the endowment starts to look a bit poorer , it 's switch back to P E Ps , course I 've always said that P E Ps were a good idea , and the charges are much better now than they were , and I 'm just thinking of the poor chap that 's read the paper two years ago , over his tea and toast on a Sunday and thought mhm good idea , I 'll take an endowment , and two years later it 's the same person saying aha , no , pretty bad news an endowment . |
| 15 | If you 're buying a cut tree , you 'll be paying obviously from where it 's cut up to the bottom branch , or if it 's a rooted tree you 'll be paying from ground level up to the bottom branch again . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's kept down to an absolute bare minimum . |
| 17 | Leanne : It 's joined on to me , it starts at my feet . |
| 18 | Well it 's speeding up to there accelerating and it 's |
| 19 | You see , traditionally the eldest son of the family gives it to his bride-to-be , then eventually it 's handed on to their eldest son . |
| 20 | It 's a very cosy set-up , as you admitted last night , but I do n't suppose she knows what it 's leading up to , if Jones has conveniently forgotten to mention the exact nature of your past relationship . ’ |
| 21 | He found The Rake 's Progress ‘ perspicacious , witty in spite of its stark drama , and thorough as regards research into the period ’ , but he added that ‘ I 'm afraid it 's not half what it 's cracked up to be . ’ |
| 22 | The movie also has a strong message : that wealth is n't all it 's cracked up to be . |
| 23 | Each room has a colour TV — ideal for checking out if Italian football is as good as it 's cracked up to be . |
| 24 | That 's because the Premier League is not what it 's cracked up to be . |
| 25 | Personally , I do n't believe it is all it 's cracked up to be . |
| 26 | Sun Microsystems Inc took exception to the story we wrote saying the new SparcClassic is n't all it 's cracked up to be because it ca n't hack it as a standalone thanks to Solaris eating up all its disk and internal memory ( UX No 416 ) . |
| 27 | Instead of the MIPS R4000-killer it 's cracked up to be , he thinks it may be only a 30% performance improvement over the 80486 . |
| 28 | " Well , it 's not everything it 's cracked up to be . " |
| 29 | ‘ Do you think AZT is all it 's cracked up to be ? ’ |
| 30 | Or would that be the final admission that everything in Paradise is not what it 's cracked up to be ? |