Example sentences of "[prep] it [is] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 But the main thing that came out of it is that they need from us er the client reports .
2 And the worst of it is that you do n't even see those people you knock over as you charge along . ’
3 And the beauty of it is that she embodies this core value of intimacy in her music better than anyone else who 's arrived on the scene in years .
4 So can you give me a use of cast iron which ha one of the effects of it is that it relies on the occasional lubricating properties of the graphite in the iron ?
5 I mean part of it is what I think and part of it is that I think that I like it because it works , that these things — I basically am unconvinced much of the modern tradition .
6 The Air Force will write to his mother if there 's anything to tell , and the awful part of it is that I do n't know where she lives .
7 The long and the short of it is that he came in to replace Andy …
8 And the upshot of it is that he has taken the custody of the de Breos lands from the Earl of Cornwall , and bestowed it upon his beloved justiciar .
9 The great difficulty with it is that it makes the assumption that there is a coincidence of interest between all of these actors which will lead them to reject the maximisation of their own special interests in the search for unified position against the rest of society .
10 While the merits and demerits of this argument have been explored extensively , one major objection to it is that it begs the question of who identifies and defines the ‘ need ’ for an expansion in public intervention , and how a perceived need results in specific policies that produce an expanded state sector .
11 If you get sat on it is because you allow yourself to be sat on .
12 The only really naff thing about it is that they serve John Smith 's bitter , but their Guinness was great , so no probs .
13 What 's different about it is that we possess , the G M B London Region , possess sworn statements from managers and ex Chief Officers that conclusively demonstrate that what the trade union has been saying all along , what the G M B's been saying all along , about victimization , financial mismanagement and corruption , have in ta in fact taken place .
14 And it it it 's called the fog index but the thing that 's interesting about it is that I 've got , I 've got some interesting examples of fog indexes erm and you 'll get people like Churchill who sometimes made speeches and their fog index is quite small you 're going to use this you know example and they might have a fog , fog index that 's fine and what Anne and I are talking about with say something like the Telegraph or the Times or whatever , might have a fog index that people but this is because Churchill was very clear , very concise and going back to the original point about , or some of the original points about this , and I was mak raising these issues earlier this evening one of the great sadnesses that I have is that , is that when I first went into journalism the tabloids as we call them were incredibly well written beautifully styled , well researched and okay they might have been punchier and shorter and everything else , compared to the turning up the er the , the Times or whatever , but they were well written and you might have had , if you can put the fog index test , test on it you might have had a fog index of say six or seven compared to eleven on the Telegraph story , but it was still full of clarity like to read .
15 ‘ What 's interesting about it is that I have both worlds , because I play with Phil Collins ’ band as well as Genesis , and with Phil I do all the records too .
16 erm This is quite an interesting cartoon , and really has no connection with either St Aldate 's or Oxford , erm but it was actually published in 1642 , and it shows the two sides , the Roundheads and the Cavaliers , and what I think is interesting about it is that it does seem to be quite objective , it does n't seem to be particularly getting at one side or the other , which is very rare for the kind of erm cartoons that were later issued during the war .
17 But of course the thing about it is that it works for any shape .
18 And what 's nice about it is that it tracks better than most .
19 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 .
20 The only good thing about it is that it lasts for six months , then immunity is acquired . ’
21 The only interesting thing about it is that it happened at all .
22 Yes , I just wondered if they could n't sort of do a , a deal , you know to get them by air , the only thing about it is if they got to sort of
23 But the erm the other thing about it is if you have a hundred people in it can be so also be a good atmosphere , you know ?
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