Example sentences of "it be [adj] [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 A substantial amount of cash was recovered from the raid , and it 's possible brave Chris may be in line for a reward .
2 It 's nice that Kirschberry one !
3 It 's nice that Elaine .
4 It 's poor old Stephanie I feel sorry for .
5 It 's stupid that London .
6 It 's lovely that Iris .
7 CSM says it did not ‘ officially ’ receive a copy of this booklet , though it is possible some DHSS officials may have seen it .
8 But now it is miserablish English-type April weather , and we have abandoned our plan for a walk in the woods near Nanking for tomorrow .
9 By the time they had toured the famous house with its owner , studied the illustrious visitors ' book , looked round the study with Mr Luke Fildes ' picture of the Empty Chair in their mind 's eye , and had seen the chalet where Dickens wrote his last words before his death , they were drained of emotion , and it was fortunate that Rochester Castle provided exercise without undue stress .
10 Of all the hard-hit member states , it was good old Blighty that had the most to shout about , not least because here was a good old-fashioned , honest-to-goodness motor show surprise .
11 It was Glasgow-born American Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown and Captain John Alcock who had first flown an aircraft across the Atlantic one month earlier in June , and their terrible journey in a giant biplane bomber powered by Rolls-Royce engines was very different from today 's high-cruising world of in-flight movies .
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