Example sentences of "[is] [conj] it [vb -s] [prep] [det] " in BNC.

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1 The sorry thing about teacher training is that it remains within such a restricting framework .
2 Another difficulty facing this definition or scope for pragmatics , is that it calls for some explicit characterization of the notion of context .
3 In fact one of the great things about this walk is that it keeps for most of the time to the shoulder of the fells so that they fall away steep sided below you giving you clear views out and down .
4 But what makes the RNLI extra special is that it appeals to all ages .
5 ‘ The beauty of bonsai is that it appeals to all ages , ’ he says .
6 It is an imaginative use of the word , but what is significant about it is that it reappears in that sense in only one other place in the Old Testament , in the passage immediately preceding God 's appearance on Sinai .
7 The fundamental weakness of this approach is that it relies to some extent on the researchers ' imagination as to what the future may hold , particularly about what new goods and services might emerge , either directly from the new technology or simply because its higher productivity may give consumers greater spending power and so create demands for hitherto undreamed-of goods and services .
8 The good news is that it works for all ages .
9 But of course the thing about it is that it works for any shape .
10 That is because it touches on many aspects of life that are deeply important to us :
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