it is a
comfort to 7 / 616
folly 17 / 651
bad business. 54 / 467
bad example to follow, 54 / 468
certain fact 54 / 469
current report — 54 / 470
dreadful business 54 / 471
great misfortune 54 / 472
great pity 54 / 473
great pity that 54 / 474
great pity that any consideration — 54 / 475
great pity that any consideration should have induced 54 / 476
sad misfortune 54 / 477
sad pity 54 / 478
very 54 / 479
very great loss 54 / 480
little hard on us, 57 / 27
long road, and is bad; 57 / 531
very) marshy country: 59 / 23
maxim with me 59 / 264
miracle that 60 / 392
complete) misrepresentation 60 / 652
momentous object 60 / 958
most convenient opportunity 61 / 679
nasty business 63 / 343
necessary part of my duty 63 / 673
noble act 64 / 583
paradox to us 71 / 838
great) pity that 74 / 241
pity that he should 74 / 242
pity to allow 74 / 243
thousand) pities that 74 / 245
poor account of the business 74 / 834
most) praiseworthy act. 75 / 533
pretty business to be sure! 76 / 130
private concern 76 / 433
procedure that 76 / 586
very) proper work to do 77 / 66
queer business, and not easily understood 78 / 152
most) rascally act 79 / 76
real gratification to me — 79 / 400
real instance of 79 / 407
reproach to him — 81 / 125
most) ridiculous affair 81 / 933
most) ruinous business — 82 / 605
shame to him 86 / 108
shame to them 86 / 109
shame to you 86 / 110
most) shameful thing 86 / 118
very) simple case 87 / 385
simple question 87 / 393
very) singular case 87 / 664
striking resemblance 93 / 357
most complete) subterfuge 93 / 860
sufficient trial 94 / 922
bad) system 95 / 896
good) system 95 / 897
very) tardy affair 96 / 798
great) acquisition i / 472
ticklish business xii / 916
most) tireseome business xiii / 700
tissue of falsehoods xiii / 773
most extraordinary) transaction xiv / 515
mere) trifle — xiv / 855
valiant act xvi / 7
vast mistake xvi / 413
vast object xvi / 420
vast offer xvi / 424
vast piece of work xvi / 430
vast pity xvi / 432
vast pity to see xvi / 433
vast pleasure to me xvi / 437
vast price to give xvi / 442
vast shame to xvi / 476
vast work xvi / 504
very bad business xvi / 861
very bad time xvi / 868
very black business xvi / 888
very common thing xvi / 953
very curious thing xvi / 991
very delicate business xvii / 8
very great thing xvii / 132
very piteous case xvii / 380
very simple thing xvii / 518
most vexing thing xvii / 785
fine) view — xvii / 900
great) way off xxiii / 264
weighty business xxv / 194
place of no strength) whatever xxviii / 8
who, I! It is a mistake. xxxi / 908
perfect) wilderness xxxiv / 824
bad) wind xxxv / 577
very) wrong thing xxxviii / 895
All (?) of the phrases commencing with "It is a," shown — with one exception (xxxi / 908) — minus those three words and in order of their appearance in
>ohn Macdonald, his A Naval, Military and Political Telegraphic Dictionary, Numerically Arranged on a Very Comprehensive Scale (Whitehall, 1817)
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Combining different results of same search, from same volume, a year apart.
21 November 2012
tags: a, it is (plural); experimen membaca; lexicon; John Macdonald (1817)