Example sentences of "it [is] [adj] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Since then the pubs passed down through sons , daughters , cousins and nephews to it 's present day owners .
2 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 .
3 This is the stain that you get , it 's , it 's black showing vessels .
4 It 's five league games without a win now .
5 At least that way I shall feel more confident that it 's Labour Party members and supporters who are selecting candidates and electing the leader and deputy leader of the Labour Party and not a Liberal or Tory trade unionist who happens to be paying the political levy .
6 " It 's great being friends with you , " he said .
7 The same things that were promised for the gas , electricity and water , but in rel reality the only section to gain are the fat cats at the top who have recently been given it 's obscene pay increases .
8 It 's fourteen year olds is n't it ?
9 It 's one shot wonders and weird groups that come and go in the bat of an eye — this strange serendipity that happens . ’
10 It 's one shot wonders and weird groups that come and go in the bat of an eye — this strange serendipity that happens . ’
11 It 's all evening weekends you know .
12 shorthand it 's all shorthand notes .
13 Another , a business woman , often under considerable pressure , managed to come to an arrangement with her voluble but good-humoured mother , that she could terminate any of their telephone conversations speedily if necessary , without giving offence , simply by saying , ‘ Well , I 'm afraid it 's all action stations here now , so I 'll have to say goodbye ’ ; and it worked remarkably well .
14 In Salvador , it 's all death squads , guerilleros , sombreros .
15 Well I mean it 's , this it 's patrol , it 's two patrol tents in particular that I 'm looking at , if they 've got some decent er scout tents
16 So it 's good exam skills .
17 My Dad s always talking about trying a windmill , but he 's never managed it yet , so it 's home-made tallow candles in the winter , to save the electricity .
18 It 's a great big , it 's little snack bars everywhere and they 've got the Italian and the Chinese and then they 've got the
19 It 's different time groups .
20 We 're a school choir — if there are many youth choirs , who can draw from several schools around the area there then the chances of our getting anywhere are slim but if it 's large school choirs then I think we probably do stand a fair chance .
21 The study , dubbed the UI Windows NT versus Desktop Unix Comparison and available in October , also throws stones at NT 's preliminary ( and hence dicey ) character and it 's hefty hardware requirements .
22 I think it 's single sex boys ' schools that are the problem .
23 But , I think it 's insane making criminals out of a huge percentage of our population , particularly when it is something that involves morality . ’
24 It 's those telephoto lenses talking down the pound .
25 He says it 's upsetting seeing children on the side of the road begging for sweets or any item , it 's hard not to be affected
26 That would take ages so they 're having land reform as a means to an end and that how that it 's improving living standards of peasants so that they get mass support , land reform was the only political option they had .
27 And tomorrow it 's hard because it 's an economics one and I have never had economics before so but it 's the second part in Zurich because it 's flying economics telecommunications and political television
28 Our initial response to the publicity was that we would like the conference organisers to define precisely the importance of feminism , as from our point of view it remains an ideological tool of imperialism , which creates division and disunity by it 's reactionary reductionist theories .
29 It is joyous dance anthems like her recent hits Everybody 's Free ( To Feel Good ) and Faith ( in the Power of Love ) that are the true '90s successors to the spirit of all those '60s Motown pop classics .
30 It is pointless allocating hours of teaching to irrelevant material .
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