Example sentences of "it [verb] [be] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words Braque is in effect saying ‘ My picture is an object , a flat surface , and the spatial sensations it evokes are a painter 's space which is intended to inform and not to deceive . ’ |
| 2 | And this in turn suggests its own moral , which is a constant theme of structuralist poetics : The primacy of the system over what it represents is a conclusion that poetics derives from the extension of the Saussurean model to the sphere of the grammar of literature ; and now we find literature itself endorsing these conclusions . |
| 3 | The relationship between an indicator and the property of the underlying phenomenon it represents is a probabilistic one , though the parameters of the relationship are unknown since the phenomenon itself can never be directly inspected . |
| 4 | But when it stopped being a thrill , I gave it up . ’ |
| 5 | It stopped being a dream and began to be what I pretended could really happen . ’ |
| 6 | You built a little plan , that if I leave at ten past eight , I miss that traffic , or I , whatever it is that you do n't often plan till the holidays , but after a while it stopped being a decision making process . |
| 7 | All it needs is a 2m diameter hole , which can be in the kitchen , conservatory , garage , or wherever . |
| 8 | The driver turns the engine over a couple of times ; says , ‘ What it needs is a little push . ' ’ |
| 9 | TrueEffects is a compact package — all it needs is a mere 500Kb of hard disk space — and it works really well . |
| 10 | With elegant blue toile wallpaper , rich gilt mirrors , a Victorianstyle fireplace , and furniture made by John , all it needs is a tree , candles and trails of ivy from the garden to transform it into a very festive scene . |
| 11 | ‘ All it needs is a lack of fear . |
| 12 | ‘ If they 're after you all it needs is a telephone call to your parents : ‘ A question about your son 's camera insurance . |
| 13 | Quite simply , I lost the magazine ! — the distribution is so sophisticated these days that there is a period of two weeks or so when our publication is in hands other than ours and all it needs is a breakdown in communications for the system to come to a halt with all parties oblivious to the standstill , which is what happened with the Autumn edition . |
| 14 | What it has is a big dictionary of words and synonyms classified by type ( people , locations , actions , etc ) and connected by their most likely relationships . |
| 15 | Does he realise that what the country now needs from him is hope , but all that it gets is complacency ; that what the country needs from him is leadership , but all that it gets from him is excuses ; that what the country now needs is a Government who will act , but what it has is a Government paralysed by the election who dodge the issues , duck the realities and do nothing ? |
| 16 | I 've had this shrub for a few years now but it has been a bit reluctant to bloom . |
| 17 | It has been a long time since the women 's game has been so open ; hopefully it will continue . |
| 18 | It has been a major political and cultural force for a hundred years . |
| 19 | Certainly it has been a main object of Derrida 's texts to show how philosophers , from plato to Husserl , have striven and failed to suppress the signs of rhetorical disruption in the discourse of philosophic reason . |
| 20 | Kelly , who has won this race three times , said : ‘ It has been a very long and hard season for me , and I feel very tired . |
| 21 | It has been a rough week down at Eurotunnel as you might imagine . |
| 22 | For Labour , it has been a good week . |
| 23 | IT HAS been a week of mixed fortunes for the some of the world 's more repressive regimes . |
| 24 | IT HAS been a tough quarter of a century for Albertina Sisulu . |
| 25 | It has been a rebirth — and all the more vigorous for being so long overdue . |
| 26 | For a backbencher , it has been a remarkable performance . |
| 27 | It has been a shareholder for a very long time in some private companies and I think we 've become known to be a supportive shareholder . |
| 28 | It has been a less serious factor in the French-speaking countries where European traders and shopkeepers continue to operate small businesses , although these could be periodically subject to local political pressures including arbitrary taxation . |
| 29 | It has been a long day , but there are still a couple of hours to run , and this is Berlin , where anything can happen . |
| 30 | Everyone is contemplating an early night — it has been a long day , one of the busiest for a while . |