Example sentences of "[prep] it [be] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says this one comes from Brazil , South America and the flowers are not immediately remarkable , but what 's special out it is it has the most wonderful smell of red wine — actually it perhaps smells of red wine that 's been in the carpet overnight rather than Chateau Lafitte . |
| 2 | it 's kind of it 's it 's calls itself the Treasure Chest now . |
| 3 | But er there 's quite a lot of it 's it 's hard work . |
| 4 | The tragedy of it is it could have been avoided . |
| 5 | However , the other consequence of it is it promotes their reproductive success and you can erm you can see that it is indeed an effect of testosterone if you castrated live longer than uncastrated males , and the earlier they 're castrated , the longer they live . |
| 6 | But it 's not not not the issue of it is it ? |
| 7 | cos its not wro not the issue of it is it ? |
| 8 | When we bought it he told me I 'd have at least ten years because the make of it is it 's a good make . |
| 9 | Now I must admit my first thoughts of it were it really gets my back up for some reason or other . |
| 10 | When it was on television it really looked , it really looked good but er the reality of it was it was pretty bad really but er the editor was very kind to me and made me look quite a hero but . |
| 11 | She said most of it was it was n't the actual looking at the hole it was that she was hurting him pushing it in . |
| 12 | It 's up and it 's past It 's it 's Presnareburn in the Skrandert I it was to be a fort of long ago too , Fort |
| 13 | Like , er the I R A , they 're mucking about with it , but it 's us they usually fucking like it 's it 's not just because of promises either , you know , not generally . |
| 14 | Tim 's only been you know , it sounds like it 's it 's mi , erm Ian 's had |
| 15 | Well it 's nothing like it is it ? |
| 16 | So , it 's , alright it 's not a major problem , but that 's the only difficulty with it is it 's not , it 's good having the bus service where you do n't have to pay , right , if you do n't , like I did n't realize the bus went at five past one , and I was all ready to go , and er , it was ten past one , and I thought , oh no , so I had to wait till three o'clock . |
| 17 | Yeah but it 's no good swearing on the bible if you do n't fucking believe in it is it ? |
| 18 | Jim ca n't get ours in it 's it 's all our garage is full of paper work and things |
| 19 | But it 's not quite the same with sort of birthday cake with a fancy thing round it is it ? |
| 20 | right , got your socket joint the same , but you can see the head of the femur is not inside it is it ? |
| 21 | And er I do n't know whether to it 's it 's the money aspect of it because if my unemployment 's stopped |
| 22 | The thing is you 've got to it 's it 's like Nigel , I mean , he works for my uncle erm and he had the other guy Mark working for him for a few years and then he employed Nigel , but Mark was n't a fully qualified plumber and Nigel was and he 's ooh I do n't know about I think he 's about nineteen or no he 's about twenty three I think , yeah |
| 23 | There 's no charm to it is it ? |
| 24 | Well firstly the bill did n't have that rough a passage in the House of Lords , because there are only two basic amendments , er that we 're dealing with in the House of Commons that matter , and one of them is the one you 've just mentioned , the answer to it is this , er I 've had a lot of criticisms of giving B R the untrammelled right to bid , er right from the outset their criticisms to do with the danger that you would n't get competition for the franchises the private sector would be afraid , and incidentally this is not a sell off it 's it 's a way of getting the private sector into British Rail with all the advantages that brings , they would be afraid that they would face subsidized and unfair competition , above all , perhaps , British Rail ge=management would feel if they were bidding against their employer that would be a real discouragement to bid , and we 've a lot of evidence er that they feel that and that there are many who do wish to bid in management/employee buy outs , so what we 've done in the amendment is we 've preserved the right for British Rail to bid , but we 've dealt with those criticisms and worries which have come from a lot of quarters not least from within British Rail itself . |
| 25 | Well it 's not a very nice day for it is it ? |
| 26 | Ah , that difficult , aristocratic , fastidious tomato , what 's the betting that quite a few mouths would go for it were it on offer ? |
| 27 | The elders in the congregation will take careful note of what 's happening in the circuit with regards to these figures and the standard of er talks and so forth and the standard of teaching , well it 's not for us to quibble about it is it ? |
| 28 | Oh it 's not worth it is it ? |
| 29 | now I 've got to go all the way round again , so no good buying nothing it 's not worth it is it ? |
| 30 | ‘ Why , Mummy , ’ the child was asking in the bath , tickling her little bottom moving up and down on the sandy deposit at the bottom of the bath until Tony had nowhere for his legs , ‘ when the sky is blue very very blue all over and you look at it is it white ? ’ |