Example sentences of "[coord] it is [adv] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such episodes may , of course , be confused as passing acknowledgements , but the readiness to exchange such signals is one of the ways in which we register the normality of the passing scene and it is when we encounter consistent anomalies in the broadcast that we begin to suspect and perhaps report something odd . |
| 2 | I really believe , and it is here I think that I differ from your that there is a great deal in Tariff Reform ; and I believe also that there is a great deal even in the food part of it . |
| 3 | Despite his metrical conservatism ( his strenuous handling of the pentameter is surely surprising and admirable ) and his unfashionable addiction to the grand manner and the high style , Allen Tate was certainly a modernist ; that is what he was thought to be , and it is how he conceived of himself . |
| 4 | He wrote : ‘ But it is when we examine the zoology of these countries that we find what we most require — evidence of a very striking character that these great islands must once have formed a part of the continent , and could only have been separated at a very recent geological epoch . |
| 5 | While still learning , to swim or drive a car or speak a foreign language , he does have to think out what to do next , but it is when he comes to trust his own reflexes that he will have mastered the skill . |
| 6 | This is fashionably dismissed as a sentimental modern aberration , but it is how I read the figure . |
| 7 | ‘ Bliss it was that dawn to be alive ’ a quote from Wordsworth , but it is how I feel as we embark on this new decade . |
| 8 | ‘ I never thought I 'd feel that way about any woman , but it is how I feel about you . ’ |