Example sentences of "it 's [prep] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Now my concern is not really with trying to erm get outside people or people in universities to sort of be involved in evaluations necessarily , it 's with helping people within schools to acquire more skills in the area of evaluation , so that schools , whenever they feel it would be useful to them , have got enough professional expertise among their own members to be able to perhaps rather more the quality of their evaluation and to see that it gets put perhaps to rather more purpose . |
2 | You 'll never guess it 's for collecting gases so we call it a |
3 | It 's the title on the , it 's for establishing Europe 's first wildlife teaching hospital which is what we 're building at Haddenham pretty shortly . |
4 | ‘ It 's for unfreezing car locks , ’ said Robyn , hastily stowing it away in the glove compartment . |
5 | It 's for recognising words rather than features or objects , visual . |
6 | destroyed all mine and put it all in the , I mean lipsticks ten quid a time or whatever , seven quid a time , so I went through and Mary had a she got this moisture , oh I thought what does this mean , she said it 's for removing lines , I thought right we 'll have a sample this |
7 | It 's , it 's for setting goals and working them out and so on . |
8 | I think it 's for taking stuff to the factory and that . |
9 | It 's for making products which are now or are potentially viable commercially . |
10 | It 's for hitting cricket balls with . |
11 | Aye it 's for carding wool . |
12 | but it 's for playing golf in . |
13 | It 's often put that hunting is good for the countryside that it 's about controlling foxes the scientific evidence rather puts that to pay the scientific evidence certainly indicates that fox hunting makes very little difference to control of foxes in the countryside and there is some evidence to suggest that fox hunting actually encourages more foxes to breed and that we end up with more foxes , so it seems to be self defeating in that respect . |
14 | What we 're talking about , w what we intend to talk about in July is not just whether or not our policies are the right ones but the practicality of implementation , which is actually the hardest bit of all to grasp , and what sort of things we might do , whether it 's about spending more money , whether it 's about influencing people , whether it 's about physically restraining people on where they should go . |
15 | ‘ The more I 'm into music and the more I 'm into guitar playing , I realise it is n't about how great a guitar player you are ; it 's about writing songs and it 's about fitting guitar and voice together . |
16 | And most importantly it 's about having fun — NOW ! ’ |
17 | I suppose you may say : ‘ Why should I be more green ’ ? and what I say to that is : ‘ I do n't know what the reason is for you but I do know that for me it 's about showing compassion for the planet we live on and trying to hand on as much beauty and good-will as we possibly can to future generations ; while improving our own quality of life . |
18 | ‘ This album here , it 's about making things last , how to keep that interest , how to keep the fire burning . |
19 | Well , it 's about making money . |
20 | Pupil leakage is n't about those puddles occasionally found under infant children it 's about losing children to neighbours — it 's not so wet but equally unpleasant . |
21 | It 's about preventing crime , because people who are burgled would rather not have been burgled in the first place . |
22 | In cases where vegetables can be sheltered from a common pest by physical barriers , it 's worth gathering sowings together in one easily protected site . |
23 | And it 's worth getting hold of the booklet , Health Advice for Travellers , published by the Department of Health ( ) . |
24 | It 's worth reminding readers who are parents of this with the start of the school holidays next month — apparently it 's the prime time for solvent abuse . |
25 | And he said , ‘ Well , the Government policy is it 's worth putting money in . |
26 | If a whole family is included on the invitation it 's worth adding No. of persons … |
27 | It 's it 's it 's in giving reasons for that . |
28 | ‘ There is definitely something missing — it 's like watching football with no ball . ’ |
29 | Now it 's like robbing Peter to pay Paul , you 're not living you 're just existing . |
30 | It 's like icing grass . |