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

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31 It 's great fun using a calculator when it 's a new toy but when you 've got to use it every time you need to work something out ,
32 But it 's great fun watching these little monsters give undercover cop Arnie the run-around .
33 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 .
34 It 's great fun going out straight from work to dance the night away or for a hot date .
35 It 's private decision making .
36 But you see if you take a car it 's eight pound to park a car .
37 It 's the easy way to learn or it 's easy , it 's easy way to understand and then learn the megiture .
38 Among lots of small trees was seven fifty foot black it 's front garden held two mighty elms .
39 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 .
40 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 .
41 Oh , no no it 's alright , it 's that man 's gone now .
42 If there is something to be said for the project , it 's that Waggoner has been doing his homework .
43 IF THERE 'S ONE thing for sure it 's that backpacking makes you ravenous .
44 It 's that human feel … ’
45 It 's that flimsy frock you 're wearing , and now I come to look at you , Alice , you 're much too thin .
46 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
47 It does n't matter whether it 's one pizza shared out between three of us or as we tried earlier two shared out between six of us .
48 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 ?
49 Well , it 's one way to get rid of it .
50 It 's one metre cubed , it 's one point eight , erm , er , but , do n't know actually , I 'd rather have it in centimetres .
51 Er er er it 's it 's one magnet working a against another .
52 It 's just it 's just a number be because it 's one length divided by another .
53 See there 'd be Amlwch , Rhos- y-Bol , Well now it 's one area see the lot of it .
54 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 . ’
55 However , we 'll see about that — it 's one thing jumping well in your own gym , but it 's another one altogether doing it in a stadium — in a championship — with thousands of people looking at you .
56 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 .
57 But it 's one thing to foresee , say , which horse is going to win the Derby .
58 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 .
59 It 's one thing to take along another veterinary surgeon and quite another to be always accompanied by a nurse , however attractive .
60 It 's one thing to have an assistant , another to feel one is being taken over .
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