Example sentences of "it is [adv] [noun] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not Mordecai who has tricked you . |
| 2 | ‘ If by the other , my lady , you refer to the regard the prince and I have for each other , pray be assured it is not pain I feel — but joy , deep joy . |
| 3 | It is not death I fear , but dying , and the hallucinations I will have in its wake . |
| 4 | For instance , if clitorectomy often known as female circumcision — is a ‘ moral ’ requirement to serve male interests , it is nevertheless women who carry out , maintain and insist upon the practice , and it is women who express their moral offence if it is not carried out . |
| 5 | ( It is paradoxically liberals who provide me with my argument for this when they argue that violent people can be ‘ understood ’ since they know no other language with which to express their inarticulate aggro . |
| 6 | ‘ No , I 'm going out instead of Luther , although Luther does n't know it yet and if it is n't Luther who comes when you ring for a rider , then we 're in trouble . |
| 7 | It is usually women who have left work , or moved from full time to part time employment , to care for a sick or frail elderly relative . |
| 8 | The vast majority of torturers are men simply because it is usually men who do military service , work as police or in concentration camps . |
| 9 | Fathers , because ultimately they control financial resources , may be the people who sign cheques or who authorize the payment of money to their children , but it is often women who mediate and negotiate such gifts and loans ( Morris , 1983 ) . |
| 10 | For these reasons , it is often women who provide the impetus for , and who are extremely active in , campaigns against dampness , for central heating , for improved playspaces and other necessary facilities . |
| 11 | It is often partners who have been most able to express their feelings , who are more likely to find new partners after a bereavement by investing feeling in a new relationship . |
| 12 | ‘ When we falter , ’ said Bec , peering into a huge simmering cauldron of something that smelled savoury and good , ‘ it is always Raynor who helps us . |
| 13 | It is therefore Christ who presents us to the Father , and our salvation derives from him . |
| 14 | ‘ If it is merely enchantment I suggest you allow me to show you around . |
| 15 | Secondly , although certainly important , the current preference by some writers to relate creativity to the affective forms of psychosis should not divert us from the fact that it is actually schizophrenia which has inspired most of the theorising — and generated a good deal of the empirical evidence — about how psychotic and creative traits might be related to each other . |
| 16 | United have now taken just three points from a possible 12 and manager Alex Ferguson 's only consolation is that the defeat of rivals Aston Villa at Carrow Road means it is now Norwich who hold a twopoint advantage over them as they go into the last seven games . |
| 17 | This strongly indicates that it is only males who have the status and power to provide , in the eyes of the relevant professionals , a credible challenge to the GP . |
| 18 | Here , significantly , it is only God who puts himself on oath by passing between the pieces . |
| 19 | We are a mystery to ourselves , and it is only God who sees into this mystery , knowing us completely . |
| 20 | Please pray that the German people will buy , read and live by the Bible ( not that it is only Germans who need to do that ! ) . |
| 21 | Thus ‘ unlawful act ’ manslaughter , which can be committed by virtue of a mere assault or battery , is an example of constructive liability ( see Chapter 5.2 ( a ) and ( b ) ) ; it is only luck which makes the difference between the summary offence of common assault ( maximum , six months ' imprisonment ) and the grave offence of manslaughter ( maximum , life imprisonment ) . |
| 22 | Er , my Lord I have to say that as far as the expert evidence from the accountant is concerned it is only Mr who has er offered an opinion , expressed an opinion upon that issue . |
| 23 | Of all the recent authors it is perhaps Jeffreys who has developed the most thorough analysis of permissiveness or what she refers to as the ‘ sexual revolution ’ . |
| 24 | Their mother and father have told them that it is about time they started helping a bit more at home . |
| 25 | It is about time we had some real law and order in our own country and made the sentences fit the crime . |
| 26 | It is about time we saw some answers . |
| 27 | It is too easy to dwell on the environmental down-side of the industry and I believe it is about time we brought home to people the improvements we bring to their life-style . |
| 28 | ‘ My dear , since you will be taking over next week , I think it is about time I explained our system for dealing with our more special customers . |
| 29 | I if you do n't like the sound of it Mrs then I 'm sorry for you but this is what democracy is all about and it is about time you listened to what people have to say . |
| 30 | ‘ Listen , Maurice , as I say I am now playing the lead in this show , and I think it is about time you sorted out some deal on the money I get for doing it . ’ |