Example sentences of "it [is] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now … " he rooted through the papers on the floor , " now , here 's your marriage certificate , it 's made out in the name of Paddy Montgomery … " |
| 2 | Once it 's locked up inside a glass case , surely it 's safe ; no one can expect me to do anything about it then . |
| 3 | Now it 's blown up into a dispute between the two , with each side blaming the other for the lack of progress . |
| 4 | If you 're buying a cut tree , you 'll be paying obviously from where it 's cut up to the bottom branch , or if it 's a rooted tree you 'll be paying from ground level up to the bottom branch again . |
| 5 | When the second part of the strap is cut it 's matched up with the main piece for colour . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's kept down to an absolute bare minimum . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's linked in with an audio tape facility which comes through the left earpiece , and the computer sound connects with the other . ’ |
| 8 | It 's laid out in the middle of a large , hilly orchard and features its own little plastic mogulfield . |
| 9 | Asthma kills two thousand people a year , but the new research shows that the gene which can cause it is only active when it 's passed on by the mother . |
| 10 | It 'll close with the loss of at least a hundred jobs if it 's taken over by the Suffolk-based brewer Greene King . |
| 11 | It 's teamed up with a charity to start a purpose-built home for sufferers . |
| 12 | It 's left over from the War . |
| 13 | It 's mixed up with the levy on Copts , apparently . ’ |
| 14 | There simply has n't been time for the body to clear the first lot before it 's topped up with a second dose of alcohol . |
| 15 | But a personal reassurance from me will not be acceptable unless it 's backed up by a member of the Swift family . ’ |
| 16 | It 's beleived up to a dozen men and women are employed on his estate and today despite the news , the work went on . |
| 17 | While this is undoubtedly a cultural policy and programme which is intended to administer to " national unity " , it is dressed up as a scientific and national response to established " educational " needs . |
| 18 | But in the Arctic , summer is just past its peak , with the pack ice as far north as it is likely to be , although in a month the first skin of new ice will tinkle and shimmer as it is broken up by the morning breeze . |
| 19 | In others , such as the strongyloids , it is large , and opens into a buccal capsule , which may contain teeth ; such parasites , when feeding , draw a plug of mucosa into the buccal capsule ( Fig.3 ) , where it is broken down by the action of enzymes which are secreted into the capsule from adjacent glands . |
| 20 | It is dragged about like a broken doll |
| 21 | For the rest of the week it is given over to a different selection : good second-hand clothes , useful but redundant household articles , outgrown children 's toys plus almost anything that someone no longer needs and someone else might use . |
| 22 | Right in the middle of an expanse of orderly herringbone there can be a patch , identical to the rest except that it is twisted round at a different angle so that the ‘ weave ’ goes off in another direction . |
| 23 | ‘ And sure , there is no harm in the other ranks having a wee drop before it is served up to the new Brigadier . ’ |
| 24 | The emergence of the superego vastly extended this trend because it represented a characteristically human — or , we might say , neurotic — tendency : namely , an ability to redirect a drive to the extent that it is turned back against the ego itself ( i.e. , hate of the father becomes hate of oneself for hating him ) . |
| 25 | In his third collection of cantatas it is bound up with a highly personal use of instrumental ritornellos in dramatic recitatives . |
| 26 | It is bound up with the family as a whole . |
| 27 | Like all enzymes it is a protein and like some it is made up of a number of polypeptide subunits ( so forming a ‘ complex ’ ) . |
| 28 | It is made up of a number of bones ( vertebrae ) which are placed one on top of another . |
| 29 | If certain forms of history stress continuity , try to account for change , the history of science by contrast must be disjointed , for it is made up of a series of corrections in which the errors of the past have to be simply discarded . |
| 30 | It is made up of an outer sheet of cells which forms a particularly thick structure — the apical ridge — at the tip , with an inner mass of loosely packed and rather dull looking cells . |