Example sentences of "it [adj] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was it possible the old fox had sussed him out and not let it show ? |
| 2 | Oh yeah we had that the other night , cos I got it wrong the other night as well ! |
| 3 | They made it clear the only way we 'd get out alive was by going on stage . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Best get it straight the old way first . |
| 5 | Nor is it just the Hegelian dialectic as such : Cixous includes ‘ History ’ , and by implication therefore Marxism as well . |
| 6 | Nor was it just the invigorating properties of the sea air at Blackpool that stimulated the appetite for whipping . |
| 7 | Nor is it just the exported population of thousands of American suburbanites , the wives and families with their attendant schools and hospitals and tennis courts . |
| 8 | It seems , moreover , that from the 1830s and 1840s there was a distinct switch in literary representation of the type of women who had recourse to abortion : no longer was it just the seduced domestic , but the married and unmarried working women , particularly factory women in the textile areas of Lancashire . |
| 9 | Nor was it just the humble and obscure whose exits went unnoticed . |
| 10 | Was it just the rising wind that was chilling her , making her tremble ? |
| 11 | But a tidy countryside , as neat and controlled as a suburban garden , is not a natural countryside , nor is it even the traditional farmed countryside . |