Example sentences of "it [be] [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Would it be any help to tell me ? ’ |
| 2 | Gloucester city council meets tonight to decide on the fate of it 's controversial plans to raise council house rents by 45 per cent and to close Gloucester law centre . |
| 3 | It 's sheer torture to hold back , but I must . |
| 4 | Initially our agents had no idea of who he was , but as I 'm sure you know it 's standard procedure to take photographs , and as soon as we compared them and a descrip-tion with our files , we were in no doubt as to who he was . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ They were close brothers and it 's terrible news to hear for any family . ’ |
| 6 | It was fifty , it 's thirty minutes to do the run , you only wanted a bus to repeat itself every forty minutes , so you got ten minutes to waste . |
| 7 | Tony Revell says it 's living hell to work with , and I believe him . |
| 8 | It 's great fun to use , and will appeal to trivia buffs everywhere . |
| 9 | Ferry boats ply regularly between all the resorts on the lake , and it 's great fun to catch a ride on the old paddle steamer , the Franz-Josef . |
| 10 | But you see if you take a car it 's eight pound to park a car . |
| 11 | It 's the easy way to learn or it 's easy , it 's easy way to understand and then learn the megiture . |
| 12 | One of the oldest fire engines in the world has gone on display in Edinburgh today , alongside it 's newest counterpart to mark the seventy fifth anniversary of the founding of an organisation that helps fire services across the world . |
| 13 | One of the oldest fire engines in the world has gone on display in Edinburgh today , alongside it 's newest counterpart to mark the seventy fifth anniversary of the founding of an organisation that helps fire services across the world . |
| 14 | Oh come on Christopher come and sometimes it in the right panel , that 's the right panel there and then it goes in the left hand and then it goes to the right hand and then it goes to the left then right , the left , the right , left , right , left , confusing , but it 's that hand to start with |
| 15 | But well it 's one way to do it you can use a calculator or you could say what would , could you work out a tenth of three sixty ? |
| 16 | Well , it 's one way to get rid of it . |
| 17 | It 's one thing to sit in a classroom writing down notes but it 's quite another to come face to face with an armed murderer or a cornered rapist , you mark my words . ’ |
| 18 | Now it 's one thing to say well , you know , perhaps these are women who take more exception than other women would do , but there comes a point where you have to accept , I think , that there 's going to be a shift of perspective , that what women have customarily put up with is no longer what they wish to put up and that I think we ought to be , as it were , acknowledged to have the right or the scope to say we want things to change , and to define or to set out in a process of defining what should be sexual appropriate sexual behaviour in future . |
| 19 | But it 's one thing to foresee , say , which horse is going to win the Derby . |
| 20 | It 's one thing to leave your children with a couple you know and trust , but quite another to have a man you only know through a babysitting circle look after your children for an evening . |
| 21 | It 's one thing to take along another veterinary surgeon and quite another to be always accompanied by a nurse , however attractive . |
| 22 | It 's one thing to have an assistant , another to feel one is being taken over . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's one thing to have brain-dead clerks amplified to efficiency . |
| 24 | I think that the computer presents exactly that challenge and amongst the sorts of things I 'm thinking of is that erm it 's one thing to play with a computer toy , a game of some sort — we 've all seen them in the bar and elsewhere — it 's another thing entirely to devise your own game , to program your own rules in and then to bring your friend along and have them challenge it . |
| 25 | It 's one thing to possess great technical ability and knowledge , and quite another to actually play a song with conviction and emotion ! |
| 26 | ‘ Let me warn you , my boy — it 's one thing to look like a donkey , but much easier to act like one . ’ |
| 27 | It 's all money to spend you see . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's all thanks to team work ’ , said District General Manager Andrew Lugg . |
| 29 | It 's backward thinking to put the global ban at risk … simply to save a rather controversial binary programme ’ . |
| 30 | It 's absolute nonsense to say that chivalrous men ca n't fight a chivalrous war , ’ Blunt said . |