Example sentences of "it [be] [adv] [conj] it is " in BNC.

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1 It 's simply that it is not by any means obvious how PR is supposed to deliver all these goodies .
2 It 's just that it is n't where it should be . ’
3 He said quite , quote , in my experience people who have access to , or are offered this level of care , even if it 's even if it is started , it is rarely continued for more than a few months .
4 On every occasion when a loose ferret is worked for rabbits it is best if it is muzzled .
5 It is also because it is a well-written , intensely moving story which shows that MPs can and do achieve things , that true love can and does exist , and which restores one 's faith in politicians at a time such restoration is badly needed .
6 If it stimulates you to dissent , it is precisely because it is so closely pondered in its own terms and it never , throughout its four hours , loosens its grip on you .
7 It is precisely because it is thought to be binding that it can serve as an expression of identification .
8 But it is precisely because it is an act of the whole man that it includes the understanding .
9 To get back to where we started from , whether you like it or you do n't like it , it is there and it is growing .
10 In the autumn , the sweeping tracts of it on the lower , treeless hillsides are the colour of rust , and it is then that it is scythed down , to provide bedding for the animals during the winter and , once suitably impregnated , fertilizer for the fields the following spring — in a neat ecological cycle .
11 THE spring Town Crier came yesterday and what a terrific read it is now that it is being produced by Darlington College of Technology students .
12 A domicile of origin is notoriously adhesive , but it is only if it is replaced with a foreign domicile of choice , and three further years elapse , that the individual will escape the UK inheritance tax net .
13 To understand the world one is in is to understand where it came from , and how it came ; and it is only because it is understood , or thought to be , that one can aspire to change it .
14 The normal bass roll-off of -6dB by 38Hz is low enough to lend a convincing weight to the majority of signals and if the bass seems initially a little ‘ polite ’ to some ears it is only because it is tight , with little or no hangover — the dual coupled-cavity technique really does give a positive ‘ start and stop ’ throughout its range .
15 Yes it is so because it is nostrum , cut out the nostrum , and let me give my heart to God — and all is ... [ rest of line illegible ]
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