Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun sg] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early in the day these westward-looking cliffs were in shadow , and a grateful shade it proved , for the sun 's rays were exceedingly powerful . |
| 2 | I have been interested to find out more about the Medau method for some time now — and what a pleasant experience it turned out to be . |
| 3 | Sergeant laughed , too , and thought what a pleasant thing it was to have a flock of fun-loving ducks for friends . |
| 4 | As a rich man it was believed if you commissioned a church or chantry chapel or stained glass windows like these it was a way of assuring a place amongst the the blessed |
| 5 | For those of us who live with a friendly cat it is hard to understand people who suffer from a terror of encountering felines at close quarters . |
| 6 | " Stop talking " can be seen as plain common sense if everyone is talking at once , but if it comes from an over-talkative mother with a shy child it can have serious consequences on the child 's character . |
| 7 | The CNAA had come a long way since 1964 : ‘ from being a shy bureaucracy it has become an important and an innovatory force in higher education ’ . |
| 8 | It 's not exactly a right angle it 's not drawn to scale . |
| 9 | Well if ever there was a right time it was now . |
| 10 | a right good'un it were , our Arthur give me torch and I had to buy a battery , I paid about three pound odd for this battery |
| 11 | It is a private number it was n't a phone box . |
| 12 | As a private registry it was available only to the trading partners , and not to third parties interested in knowing whether a given shipment was sold , pledged , or had taken place . |
| 13 | ‘ In a little way it did , because we did really want to keep it small . |
| 14 | With a little practice it is possible to generate complete sentences instantly by simply calling up a string of stored phonemes . |
| 15 | Despite Ferrari , the race went on , and a memorable race it was , with thunder-clouds overhead , a wonderful high-speed circuit to urge drivers on and a hugely combative field in which Hunt , who held pole position , went into an early lead , was swept aside by John Watson in a Penske , with Ronnie Peterson in his March coming up almost right alongside the leaders , eventually overtaking both . |
| 16 | The concept of structure is replaced in Derrida 's writing by the concept of a chain of signification which avoids the dangers implicit in the notion of structure : by being open-ended and non-teleological it does away with any idea of a commanding entity within the system , and by having a temporal as well as a spatial dimension it can not itself be reduced to the status of entity or object . |
| 17 | If parking is difficult in a built-up area it may be better to go by public transport . |
| 18 | What a terrific afternoon it was , readers ! |
| 19 | But when Baby came she thought if it was a Nigerian boy it would have been so easy . |
| 20 | I re I , I , I 've it got a monotonous filling it up . |
| 21 | Well it er I was very it 's not a stately home it 's the equivalent I would say to a sort of erm lower landed gentry upper er working class sort of place . |
| 22 | Embarrassment is under no obligation to be comic , though it is most naturally that , and as a fictional theme it is of inexhaustible power and seemingly unending appeal . |
| 23 | He or she has to generate both questions and answers , and in a well-organised text it is the generating of questions that is the most difficult task . |
| 24 | Correction by one 's superiors is integral to most forms of organization : in a hierarchical society it is accentuated . |
| 25 | Friendships developed of a very intense type , sometimes , inevitably , with an explicitly sexual aspect which seems , in spite of the awful fulminations of headmasters , to have produced remarkably little in the way of enduring guilt or sexual abnormality in adult life : it was the emotional intensity of the experience which was remembered , suggesting how deep a displaced need it in fact fulfilled . |
| 26 | It is a sad sight for not only is it a famous Belfast landmark but to anyone who has spent an enjoyable evening there taking in anything from a popular musical to a classic play it must feel like a personal loss . |
| 27 | He says if someone has a low immunity it could cause muslce paralysis . |
| 28 | He started with pleurisy which turned into pneumonia and because he was n't a strong man it carried him off . |
| 29 | Some are so strongly aromatic as to be spicy , and tarragon in particular is one of the few that has such a strong taste it does need adding in minuscule amounts to meat or fish dishes . |
| 30 | It was the eternal noise at that bend in the river , but on a normal day it could n't be heard here . |