Example sentences of "[conj] it [be] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it was itself of a rather fetid awfulness , The Damned prefigured almost all of the conventions of the nostalgia movie : the fusing of public history with a private , intimate drama ; the ubiquity of ‘ decadence ’ and deviant sexuality ; the scratchy suggestiveness of ‘ cheap ’ popular music on the soundtrack ; the transformation of the past into a glittering art deco exhibition of costume and design ; and the constant reference to movie mythology . |
| 2 | One can then choose to say either that it constitutes the difference by virtue of having a particular internal ‘ feel ’ associated with it , or that it is itself the difference , simpliciter . |
| 3 | But it is still a personification not a discovery , because we recognize that the community has no independent metaphysical existence , that it is itself a creature of the practices of thought and language in which it figures . |
| 4 | The Director of Public Prosecutions urged the Greater Manchester police to investigate the trial in the light of allegations of police corruption , while the Manchester police authority announced that it was itself to hold such an inquiry . |
| 5 | And it is itself always also paradoxical , for it discloses what can not be scaled down to be contained , proved , measured , demonstrated or explained within the framework of finite human reasoning . |
| 6 | His paper is , therefore , partisan — it does not pretend to be other and it is itself part of the discourse in support of psychodynamic theory . |
| 7 | The division of the national press into ‘ quality ’ and ‘ popular ’ papers was one of content as well as circulation , and it was itself largely a result of the higher advertising rates chargeable by the papers with readers who had more money to spend ( not necessarily their own ) . |
| 8 | The solid matter may contribute to the colour if it is itself coloured . |
| 9 | ‘ By laughing at them you make them a victim — and all humour has a victim , even if it 's yourself , ’ says Carl . |
| 10 | say if it was yourself and father who both were n't well , he would , if you just pick up the phone and say , I 'm running short can I have a b b and he , he brings it round , like you know , j j |
| 11 | Men are gladly taken back into their lives , but it is themselves the women have discovered . |
| 12 | Either because its causal impact is outweighed by structural considerations ( a possibility that will be discussed in Chapter vi ) , or because it is itself to be explained as the effect of social wholes and their properties . |
| 13 | Er never asked about full names er of everyone whether it be yourself , the husband or the kids the full names . |
| 14 | It is the excuse given now for all hunting , but the misuse of a concept of a practice like that proves nothing about whether it is itself legitimate . |
| 15 | The boy was not then aware , of course , of how frequently an idling or unanchored mind can be disturbed by the accidental experience of receiving luminous images from out of clear , sharp light when it is itself cast in any sort of shadow . |
| 16 | The inner meaning will be revealed when it is itself first performed in June 1993 ! ’ |
| 17 | I mean your examination work , for in your other work you need no encouragement , for you like it so much as it is yourself finding expression in words . ’ |
| 18 | Now she 's gone , and I do n't have to pay out , I 'm not badly off ; I 've saved a bit , and I 'd thought there would be no need to let the room , but if you and Mr Paul was looking for somewhere clean and comfortable , with good food , and reasonable as it 's yourselves , perhaps you 'd think it over . ’ |