Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] [noun sg] [conj] it [is] " in BNC.

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1 House ownership not only confers higher social esteem than council accommodation but it is also a more profitable form of investment , particularly during periods of high inflation .
2 It 's less fattening than ice cream but it 's still not good for you .
3 Other Council 's like Harlow do have central policy units which is what we would be described as , because people recognition that it 's important that you need to have people who are outside departments looking at the organisation as a whole , what it 's doing , where it 's going , how it 's being influenced by external organisation 's , i.e. what the Health Service are doing locally , or what the Government 's doing more significantly , erm , I think you need people looking around to see how the Council 's affected and what , what were doing in and taking an overall view and responding in that way and that 's the kind of thing that we do and that 's why were here .
4 When the crack is very shallow it is consuming more energy as surface energy than it is releasing as relaxed strain energy and therefore the conditions are energetically unfavourable for it to propagate .
5 Stok put on his uniform cap and a thigh-length padded jacket of the sort that Russian troops wear as fatigue dress when it 's very cold .
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