Example sentences of "it [be] [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the poem progressed farther in the mind than on paper , and all that survives of it are some verse fragments describing the distant wail of swallows and seagulls , water dripping one Sunday from the miller 's wheel ( perhaps at Kilve ) , the snow blown curling from a wood ‘ like pillars of cottage smoke ’ , and a wild Quantock pony racing in the wind . |
| 2 | There is an entrance hall of perfect proportions , which is twice as long as it is square , and leading off it are three reception rooms of great height and elegance . |
| 3 | Could it be that Sun Microsystems Inc president Scott McNealy 's voice is being heard this side of the Atlantic , after he reportedly told Novell Inc 's Ray Noorda to fire everyone at Unix System Labs except a handful of marketing guys and the engineers ? |
| 4 | Around it were two steel chairs with putrid white plastic on the seats . |
| 5 | Tied to it were two speed boats , a smack and a power boat equipped for deep-sea fishing . |
| 6 | Sir , if you do come to the view , however , that one or both of these sites may have some as it were residual greenbelt functions , then we ask you to bear in mind the matters raised , in particular Mrs 's appendix nine , about the need in the longer term , that is , beyond two thousand and six in particular , for a strategic reserve . |
| 7 | It 's a high-risk enterprise for us to , to pontificate about local radio , particularly as we have three as it were local radio representatives here , and we shall give them ample opportunity to confirm or deny the sort of things we 're saying . |
| 8 | They built a house , the Villa Eugénie , which eventually grew into the present Hôtel du Palais , a vast building close to the lush sands of the Grande Plage ( formerly known as the Plage tea Fous , because only the reckless , if not the insane , were thought likely to risk swimming there ) , very monumental and with a tricolour flying above it , as if it were some government department rather than merely a hotel . |
| 9 | and I went in shop I said a sack of dog food I said German Shepherd and got it home and I thought this looks different , it were ginormous chunk things in it and he were going ptew , ptew and they were all over garden |
| 10 | So with it being another student union and it being like a conference in aid of the homeless and that , I did n't really want to sort of give them a load of grief so I suggested about sixty pounds . |
| 11 | It 's six cylinder engine has a top speed of seventy five miles an hour in forward and reverse . |
| 12 | Since then the pubs passed down through sons , daughters , cousins and nephews to it 's present day owners . |
| 13 | Yeah well if we do n't get it tomorrow we 'll have to go one night , it 's late night shopping till nine o'clock . |
| 14 | When someone is purchasing a vehicle erm they are told that they have a guarantee or a warranty , in actual fact it 's mechanical breakdown insurance . |
| 15 | In it 's 11 year history , this is the first to crash in peacetime . |
| 16 | I mean if there are two or three days off during that or one day off you take for instance , as long as it 's fifteen working days . |
| 17 | This is the stain that you get , it 's , it 's black showing vessels . |
| 18 | That 's what I saying , but it 's better seeing doctor , it 's no good somebody , me coming in |
| 19 | If you 're a young disabled girl — say , in a wheelchair — it 's sheer culture shock to put yourself somewhere like Oxford Circus . |
| 20 | They do some of the finest dictionary 's and it 's real read English . |
| 21 | They were just two points in front after a surprise defeat for Daz Sumner when suddenly the team found it 's real fighting spirit . |
| 22 | Erm , it 's four track recording . |
| 23 | Which the normal one was er er , w I think it 's a five inch brace for the er er it 's five inch sweeper , in other words it 's er about Is it six inches ? |
| 24 | It 's five league games without a win now . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's roast suckling pig , ’ Guido told her as she took a mouthful . |
| 26 | From there on , it 's serious expedition country . |
| 27 | District attorney Lauren Weis said after the case in Santa Monica , California : ‘ If he falls by the way it 's serious jail time . ’ |
| 28 | About eighteen months ago , this committee reviewed and revised erm , it 's Equal Opportunity Policy . |
| 29 | The thing is , it 's er not right to set somebody who do n't want the job and then just pull them back with them it 's rough grade money that 's what . |
| 30 | It 's advanced roof technology . |