Example sentences of "it be [art] [adj] [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With over 2000 licensed stores to cater for , it 's the second largest wine outlet in the country after the Co-op . |
| 2 | It 's the bloody daftest thing I 've ever bloody heard . |
| 3 | Yet it 's the bloody simplest |
| 4 | it 's the next cheapest thing from that Capri , the Capri 's the cheapest but it 's a two litre |
| 5 | It is not merely a question of its vastness ( it is the second largest country in the world , measuring 9.2 million square kilometres ) , but its breathtaking grandeur : God 's own country , as the Canadians delight to call it . |
| 6 | It is the second largest Taiwanese semiconductor designer and manufacturer and a major supplier of the Taiwan personal computer industry and was chosen because of its ability to offer an entree to the Chinese-speaking markets in Hong Kong , China , Malaysia , Singapore and Taiwan . |
| 7 | Second , the Trust is a body committed to conservation on such a wide scale — it is the second largest landowner in Britain — that it also has a clear duty to ensure that it follows good environmental practice in its own affairs . |
| 8 | It is the second largest producer of nickel in Africa , the third largest producer of diamond and the fourth largest producer of cobalt . |
| 9 | It is the second largest carpet maker in Europe . |
| 10 | Under my leadership we have transformed the city of Los Angeles from a quiet , sleepy little town to the point where it is the second largest city in the United States . ’ |
| 11 | It is the second commonest condition seen in gay men ( after PCP ) and , of all people with AIDS , is ten times more likely to occur in gay men . |
| 12 | After Pescara , it is the second longest circuit to be used for a Formula One championship race . |
| 13 | ‘ We feel the rationalisation of manufacturing and distribution under a single management is overdue because it is the single largest cost centre , ’ said . |
| 14 | It is the sixth oldest in Great Britain and is presently one of the largest . |
| 15 | I was very happy ; it was a personal best , and I thought of Clifford Mamba . |
| 16 | It was a personal best performance by a second and a half , and now Matthew is hoping she will still be picked to represent Cleveland in the English Schools Championships at Hull next month . |
| 17 | In world terms , it was the 9th biggest carpet manufacturer in 1989 with total sales of £170m approx . |
| 18 | I had taken her to the Three Tuns , and told the others to meet us there , on the basis that it was the second nearest pub to the scene of the demo and the nearest one to Seymour Street police station . |
| 19 | It was the second largest building in the city , next to the cathedral , which was much less prominent . |
| 20 | Perhaps the most characteristic British example is that in the civitas capital at Silchester , where it was the second largest building in the town after the forum and was situated close to the south gate . |
| 21 | It was the second largest fall in the country 's history , exceeded only by the 3,836 point crash on " Black Monday " in October 1987 . |
| 22 | In the later period , from the tenth century , it was the second largest city of the empire and its rich Byzantine heritage still shows this . |
| 23 | It was the second longest period of party power , uninterrupted by either an election or a change of leadership , of this century . |
| 24 | It was the fourth largest abbey in the country and one of the richest . |
| 25 | Michael went with her to meetings and joined her when she worked for the Liberal cause because it was the next best thing to Labour . |
| 26 | Sartre 's stress on the role of the subject also finds approval because many of those no longer prepared to argue for a general theory of history as the progress of a single narrative of class-struggle , have begun to argue instead for a return of its correlative , the subject , almost as if it was the next best thing in the absence of history itself . |
| 27 | ‘ I remember this place when it was the next best thing to an orphanage . |