Example sentences of "[pron] is [adv] [conj] it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it also enjoys the magical flexibility of a workforce which is there when it is needed and simply vanishes when it is n't . |
| 2 | On every occasion when a loose ferret is worked for rabbits it is best if it is muzzled . |
| 3 | It is also because it is a well-written , intensely moving story which shows that MPs can and do achieve things , that true love can and does exist , and which restores one 's faith in politicians at a time such restoration is badly needed . |
| 4 | If it stimulates you to dissent , it is precisely because it is so closely pondered in its own terms and it never , throughout its four hours , loosens its grip on you . |
| 5 | It is precisely because it is thought to be binding that it can serve as an expression of identification . |
| 6 | But it is precisely because it is an act of the whole man that it includes the understanding . |
| 7 | To get back to where we started from , whether you like it or you do n't like it , it is there and it is growing . |
| 8 | In the autumn , the sweeping tracts of it on the lower , treeless hillsides are the colour of rust , and it is then that it is scythed down , to provide bedding for the animals during the winter and , once suitably impregnated , fertilizer for the fields the following spring — in a neat ecological cycle . |
| 9 | THE spring Town Crier came yesterday and what a terrific read it is now that it is being produced by Darlington College of Technology students . |
| 10 | A domicile of origin is notoriously adhesive , but it is only if it is replaced with a foreign domicile of choice , and three further years elapse , that the individual will escape the UK inheritance tax net . |
| 11 | To understand the world one is in is to understand where it came from , and how it came ; and it is only because it is understood , or thought to be , that one can aspire to change it . |
| 12 | The normal bass roll-off of -6dB by 38Hz is low enough to lend a convincing weight to the majority of signals and if the bass seems initially a little ‘ polite ’ to some ears it is only because it is tight , with little or no hangover — the dual coupled-cavity technique really does give a positive ‘ start and stop ’ throughout its range . |
| 13 | Yes it is so because it is nostrum , cut out the nostrum , and let me give my heart to God — and all is ... [ rest of line illegible ] |
| 14 | For example , to say of what is in fact honey that it is n't honey , or of what is n't honey that it is , is false ; whereas to say of what is honey that it is honey , or of what is n't that it is n't , is true . |