Example sentences of "[conj] it [be] [art] [noun] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The BDDA , as long ago as 1924 , foresaw this unhappy industrial crisis , and recognising that it was a question it could not handle alone , the National Institute was requested to deal with it . |
| 2 | Conscious of a ripping sound , she heard her zip go , then her taffeta skirt was rustling to the floor and he was pulling her down among its glossy folds , his lips marauding over hers so that it was the way it was in the unrequited dreams of the empty nights when everything came down to the touch of him like the still centre of the entire world . |
| 3 | Despite the fact that the Whitney Museum was the first to show the photographs of the notorious late Robert Mapplethorpe , and only recently declared that it was creating a department of photography , the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation announced last month that it was the Guggenheim it would be patronising with gifts in money and kind . |
| 4 | Well he di he did a video a and it 's a wonder it were n't banned ! |
| 5 | There is a sense of which that good housekeeping with the inevitable consequences of government policy can be , can be in terms if you like , or benefits to the council tax payers , who have after all in a under the complete disaster of the poll tax which nobody but nobody in this chamber I suspect knew more unless there is at least one partisan tory who will try to save it , it was really a wonderful experiment and it 's a shame it did n't continue . |
| 6 | And erm he he said it 's stupid , he said they were given all this and it 's the homework it 's nothing to do with the revision you 've got to do in his the exams ! |
| 7 | No , I thought if it was a man it was a president and it was a woman it was Prime Minister . |
| 8 | Either way it seems like we , even if it is a problem it 's Paul |
| 9 | We was carrying this ta erm table up the stairs and some boy knocked it and it fire alarms , everyone was , water started pouring down cos they have all the water as well , like , if it is a fire it was pouring |
| 10 | If it 's a will it 's the executor or the one executor of the number of them who are proving it . |
| 11 | I think he really wants to name it after every member of the Spurs football team , so if it 's a girl it could be tricky ! ’ |
| 12 | Erm if it 's a hatching it 's a little different is n't it ? |
| 13 | So if it 's every weekend it 'll be about twenty twenty |
| 14 | If it 's an illness it 's a stigma . |
| 15 | If it 's an insulator it stops heat getting through and it 'll stop electricity getting through as well . |
| 16 | No , I thought if it was a man it was a president and it was a woman it was Prime Minister . |
| 17 | But , unfortunately , she soon realised that if it was a nightmare it was a living nightmare . |
| 18 | ‘ If it was a mistake it is their fault , ’ said Andrew . |
| 19 | Some of them were some had got old cars in where the tyres , if it was a puncture it was these great big wheels with beaded edge tyres which you can , you put on in quite a different way from the modern car tyres . |
| 20 | ‘ And if it was a pay-off it did n't do him any good . ’ |
| 21 | In effect , if it was a profession it was a profession in name only ( a point made indirectly by my lecturer who studiously avoided use of the word ) . |
| 22 | If it was the battery it must have finally given up the ghost , because there was n't even the faintest wheeze or whisper from the starter motor . |
| 23 | Even if it was an illusion it was our best illusion . |
| 24 | The way he was brought up I suppose , but it 's a wonder it it 's a wonder he 's got any business at all ! |
| 25 | ‘ It 's some consolation that it has been found but it 's a shame it could n't be retrieved in time for Remembrance Sunday . |
| 26 | But it 's a compliment it 's a compliment from the company saying we 've got a looking people that we 're quite that people can you know . |
| 27 | It 's a wonder it 's still here but it 's no wonder it 's in such a God-forsaken state … ’ |
| 28 | But it 's the time it takes |
| 29 | But it was the way it was . ’ |
| 30 | and I 've re I have quite a high awareness about women 's position in society , but because of that I feel that I 've now come to reject the term feminism because erm I think it 's also harming the people who , you know , it 's harming the women that are holding on to that er , label because it is label and that is erm because it 's , because it 's a label it then it 's blocking er forms progress for women . |