Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] of [pers pn] is [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How different it was all to be , and the marvel of it is that the plans prepared in the period after 1945 proved as robust as they did for so long . |
| 2 | The principle is commonly known as proprietary estoppel , and since the effect of it is that B is prevented from asserting his strict legal rights it has something in common with estoppel . |
| 3 | The essence of it is that if expectations of a variable are rational they will be determined by the process governing that variable . |
| 4 | The pity of it is that this happens to be as beautiful a cat as the Sphynx is ugly . |
| 5 | ‘ The pity of it is that Araminta will get the Lodge after all . |
| 6 | The pity of it is that the Prime Minister , who said that he wanted to be at the heart of the process , has instead condemned this country to be semi-detached from it . |
| 7 | The long and the short of it is that he came in to replace Andy … |
| 8 | The the the buggeration of it is that the next time round that something goes wrong , it 'll be again something that you 've encountered before ! |
| 9 | Anyway , the upshot of it is that he 's written a song , for his daughter , based on the Basil Brush thing . |
| 10 | The upshot of it is that the appellate court , where the matter is one of discretion , as this is of course , will not interfere with the discretion of the court below unless it considers that the court was plainly wrong or it has erred in principle , that it has taken into account something it should not have done or has failed to take into account something it should have done , and on that narrow basis I must proceed with this appeal . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The basis of it is that the landlord , by letting the premises , confers on the tenant the right of possession during the term and impliedly promises not to interfere with the tenant 's exercise and use of the right of possession during the term . |
| 13 | With Elton , the joy of it is that at least you 're quite familiar with a lot of the stuff , and even if you have n't actually sat down and worked through it you know how the songs go . |
| 14 | The nub of it is that since this is a double room Rachel is therefore cohabiting , and she is not entitled to state help to pay for the rent . |
| 15 | The old tricks should be left alone , because the reality of it is that when I go on tour in a couple of months , I 'm going to be playing all these songs and I 've been careful never to repeat past compositional techniques . |
| 16 | The beauty of it is that you can easily move them around on the wood . |
| 17 | The whole thing takes around 12 days to complete and takes in all the best Lakeland peaks , but the beauty of it is that it can be divided into any number of day sections and there 's always a lowland alternative route in case the weather is really awful on the tops . |
| 18 | The beauty of it is that while nut everyone can become Black or become a woman , anyone can join the ‘ real people ’ . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Erm the gist of it is that the money from the A B C er i you 're not allowed to go over your forty eightieths of your pension with it . |
| 21 | The most you may be able to say at the end of it is that you ‘ gained understanding ’ ; to some of us that may be unsatisfactorily intangible , while to others it may be of profound significance . |
| 22 | ‘ So , the fact of it is that you last went down that stretch of lane at four o'clock . ’ |
| 23 | The fact of it is that my five years are now up and hence my retirement is over . |