Example sentences of "it 's [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.

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31 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 .
32 ‘ Listen , mate , if it 's pure climax rainforest you want to see , southeast Peru is the place to see it . ’
33 From start to finish , it 's pure dance madness .
34 Some say it 's heroic and romantic ; others say it 's pure science fiction .
35 Er recordwise it never happened and does never seem to happen but we can go to America and work in the Irish centres and the Irish clubs and be an Irish band but er the way we could come over here and do a concert to people in general , it does n't I think the radio situation in America for years was al always very if you were folk you played in folk programme , if you were country you 'll play in the country prog whereas here in Britain there 's one great thing with the radio system , people tend to play whatever you know if it 's easy listening programme they play whatever is is nice and easy listening you know .
36 Well it 's front wheel drive car so
37 It 's fourteen year olds is n't it ?
38 It 's that Ripper bloke they 're all going on about .
39 People around me stated ‘ Oh hell , it 's that poncy twat from The Smiths that loves flowers . ’
40 It 's that back yard .
41 Ken himself always said that it was a modernized version of the kind of radio entertainment that Tommy Handley had brought with his famous wartime comedy series , ITMA ( ‘ It 's That Man Again' ) .
42 It 's that bastard Nazi who 's trapped . ’
43 It 's on look , it 's that colour lipstick
44 Cos when he knocked on door and I thought oh I wonder if it 's that parcel midi hi-fi system I 'm
45 Unless it 's that cooker thing , I think her cooker 's there .
46 It 's that Mayday bank holiday .
47 Beneath it there 's a Sun cartoon of a chap being polled on his doorstep : ‘ I think Kinnock is marvellous , ’ he says , ‘ it 's that windbag husband of hers I ca n't stand . ’ )
48 It 's that masking tape bloody company again in er , Newcastle
49 It 's that kangaroo juice he puts in the engine , ’ Terry teased her after she had started from outside the house in a series of jumps .
50 It 's that ballet dancer .
51 This prat , silly cow has to sneak up her , it 's one lane love .
52 It 's one shot wonders and weird groups that come and go in the bat of an eye — this strange serendipity that happens . ’
53 It 's one shot wonders and weird groups that come and go in the bat of an eye — this strange serendipity that happens . ’
54 Now it 's all Boy Scout stuff and bivouacs and tents .
55 It 's all evening weekends you know .
56 NME 's punk enfant terrible Tony Parsons in 1992 : now it 's all Apple Mac and Armani , then it was chiefly amphetamine and aggression
57 shorthand it 's all shorthand notes .
58 it 's all office work
59 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 .
60 It 's the same with most women I said , and it 's all paper talk .
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