Example sentences of "it [is] [conj] [pron] [verb] [art] " in BNC.

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1 If we go to an exhibition together we find that we like the same paintings ; so I think it 's that we have an empathy in our way of painting , in the whole attitude to painting .
2 It 's whether we put the desk in the room .
3 It 's like she had a multi-barrelled gun , and has n't just shot herself in the foot , but shot herself everywhere and blown her own head off , and no-one seems to have noticed .
4 It 's like she flashed a bright light in my eyes , and I have to look away .
5 Ah no , racing , ah , it 's cos I bought a horse , that 's why
6 I think it 's cos he feels a bit rough actually , he 's got a terrible cold .
7 right , right so that 's that 's partly to do with you your preparation is n't it but it 's if I put the word script
8 But it 's because we accepted the challenge of change , even though we may not have liked everything that went with it , that we 're here today .
9 Maybe it 's because we have a major problem with superfluous hair .
10 If I sounded dubious about The Smiths , it 's because they represented the first threat to us . ’
11 I believe it 's because they have the best connections , and they 're paying the most money .
12 When dey blow a whistle it 's because dey dig de style
13 It 's because I like the way the note A sounds on the top string better than I do on the second , but I like A on the second string better than I do on the third , and so on .
14 Saw the bit where , it 's got like tha that where he 's been , he said , I think it 's because I had the , I smoked pot or something , marijuana once then I got I got busted or something and !
15 He treats his actors as equals , and if he ask you a question , it 's because he wants an answer — not because he 's testing you . ’
16 Maybe it 's because she has the most substantial female role in any of Stone 's films to date — or maybe it 's because her character suffered the saddest fate in the backsweep of Jim Morrison 's downfall .
17 It 's because she has the evidence that it really happened , ’ Stevie explained to Patrick .
18 ‘ They say that Birmingham is a sleeping giant and it is but it needs a massive injection of money .
19 It is that everybody understands the idea of having diarrhoea and it is not pleasant , but you do not die from it .
20 Now , it is that they have no need to do anything so rash .
21 This objection helps to reveal why it is that we regard a hierarchical classification as natural .
22 It is that we have a single conception of effects , rather than several .
23 Those ultimate motivations will be the subject of the next section , but here we are interested in exactly what it is that we expect a pragmatic theory to do .
24 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 .
25 There seems to be no particular difficulty with exigo , unless it is that it takes the form not of a request ( like the wordings in Gaius ) but of an instruction .
26 In short , it is that it offers a way of by-passing ‘ the awkward corner ’ , Nearly twenty years ago Professor Joan Robinson observed that the predictable consequences of the attainment of near-full employment must , if institutions and attitudes did not accommodate themselves to the new circumstances , be so far to strengthen the power of the trade unions as to prompt a vicious spiral of wages and prices ; and that it would become chronic .
27 If I have any criticisms of this section it is that it underestimates the difficulties of writing software and ignores the influence the historical development of computing has on the acceptance of new ideas ( what Seymour Papert calls the QWERTY phenomenon ) .
28 The complaint is really a litany of er a whole host of the old grievances there that we have heard several times er before and we will be dealing with the matter in the proper place through our U S council in the U S courts , in terms of er suggestions that it is that it surrounds the question er of monopoly we certainly er do not accept that thirty eight percent of slots at Heathrow in any way constitutes a monopoly it certainly does not .
29 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 .
30 It will be B format at £5.99 on 23rd September , and the main reason I believe it is that it has a new hardback ( Big Hole and Baby Universes ) simultaneously .
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