Example sentences of "it [is] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And so it 's not a case of our waiting it 's rather a case of our receiving .
2 Well , because it 's , it 's rather a case of the blind leading the the blind , erm
3 It 's rather a change , actually , ’ he murmured , ‘ to find a woman who does n't pick at her food and moan about endless diets .
4 It 's rather a relief .
5 I , too , think it 's rather a lot of money . ’
6 Cos otherwise it 's rather a lot to eat for one person .
7 ‘ Then surely it 's rather a waste of time to bury yourself away on a Saturday night when you 'll have the bulk of the work to contend with tomorrow — when the club 's closed . ’
8 Considering the rock at Tremadog feels so solid on a small scale , it 's rather a shame that it has a large scale tendency to become part of the scree at the foot of the crag !
9 Once you 've created the jobs for people it has given the economies an upturn and I feel it 's rather a shame that the erm the great problems of the of the Germans particularly have put that pressure for high interest rates through the er E R M , through those currencies and one , I think , good thing of Britain 's disaster last year , with with their position in the E R M , is that by lowering interest rates , if we only had a government who wanted to use that opportunity probably , we could train people for for work .
10 Just one point , it 's rather a shame they ca n't be open at weekends ?
11 It 's rather a hike . ’
12 Yes , it 's rather the kind of correspondence one might expect Tod Friendly to go in for : unvarying , humourless and one-way , like junk mail .
13 Not that it 's impossible — indeed , it 's rather the sort of thing Oliver might do — but I 've somehow stopped believing most of what he says .
14 It 's rather an adventure . ’
15 I think it 's rather an island in in the middle of the ermerm cultivated land so if you stand on top of the Ridgeway and look down you can see the Harwell site standing out as a a green treed area erm compared with the corn all round it .
16 If it 's already a bungalow .
17 Miki was worried that this important development might be passed off as a fad , a ‘ scene ’ people will get tired of : ‘ To some people it 's already a gimmick , but it 's very important , a lot of people have a lot to say .
18 It 's already a fortnight since my birthday — life seems to get ‘ hecticker ’ and ‘ hecticker ’ .
19 It 's plainly no time for that .
20 You think ‘ I 'll take a stat of that , ’ and you find that when it 's considered it 's a fairly minor one , although it 's strictly an offence and it does n't comply … it 's way out of the normal working standards .
21 I would remind you that this is a counter-espionage matter which means it 's strictly an MIS and Special Branch affair . ’
22 ‘ It 's excellent , dazzling , and because of the original condition , it 's practically a stock plane .
23 And it 's practically a script already .
24 And if it 's not one of the ones you 've remembered you think well it 's probably a C.
25 If it starts with a C sound we 'll try a C if it 's not one of those that I 've remembered starting with a K then it 's probably a C.
26 I think it 's probably a North American she-wolf — ’
27 Get real , she thought , it 's your ideal , it 's probably a bit scruffy , rugs and dogs here and there .
28 It 's probably a bit of a shambles .
29 and it really was pretty much like that when I had it , so eh , it 's probably a bit more rounded than it was .
30 No it 's down there , and in it er I wrote it last night actually when I was feeling pretty fucked off so it 's probably a bit out of order but I wrote to him and said erm tt Josh has been round this evening asking questions about what 's happened with his money erm and I think you 're really out of order .
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