Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [is] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You have an opportunity through experience for knowing better than anyone else what is at stake and how much effort it takes , and what a loss it is if you do n't do everything you can to make your partner contented . |
| 2 | Oh all of my stuff has been up in the loft it 's like you say , I mean if they 've been double wrapped and everything and you wash them |
| 3 | If Rassendyll escapes being a sentimental hero it is because of the spare , simple plots and the headlong speed of the narrative which carry his idealistic musings along . |
| 4 | Such a nuisance it is because it 's a condition which makes you tire more easily , leaving you short of energy and breath . |
| 5 | When dey blow a whistle it 's because dey dig de style |
| 6 | If someone is sitting on the radiator it is because his trousers are wet from the rain , if someone is drifting across the classroom he is going to get some paper for written work , or if someone is leaving class he is going to empty the rubbish ‘ like he usually does ’ . |
| 7 | And , when Jessica gets up to do get the magazine it 's cos Mr told her but course she thought it was Je , erm Elizabeth but she wa was n't so |
| 8 | If Bloom is every kind of Dubliner it is because it falls to him to transact the unfinished business , to enact it and to get beyond it without dazzling gifts . |
| 9 | My Lord it is since that erm because , as you mention that er because of all the delay , that I am quite sure that positively intended erm I lost large sums of paying my solicitors , solicitors as well as a surveyor and therefore I attempted to er , er to recoup that |
| 10 | The development of radio and television , of new technologies to record speech , create new emphases whose significance it is as yet difficult to grasp . |
| 11 | I du n no but like er say the d a driver 's coming this way , he wants to see how far down the road it is before it 's a blind spot again . |
| 12 | Well members of the jury it is because we 've set the course that acting upon in itself would not have been enough . |
| 13 | The sun is the size it is because it is so hot . |
| 14 | ‘ In this case it 's because they believe you 've tricked them over the supposed disappearance of Clarion Call . |
| 15 | In part it is because they too have unknowingly taken in the prevailing stereotypes . |
| 16 | In part it is because training is in-service and little emphasized and also because so much of government is secret , information being deliberately kept from Parliament and the public . |
| 17 | ‘ I think for my part it 's because of Liubov , ’ I said . |
| 18 | But it is n't because of some secret triumph of racism it 's because the claim he 's making has been emptied of meaning . |
| 19 | Yeah it 's erm any damage on tape , nine out of ten times i is the first foot it 's because when they wind them back i it , it 's a jag |
| 20 | The key is the ‘ anthropic principle ’ , which draws attention to the fact that , as Hawking says , ‘ we see the universe the way it is because if it were different , we would n't be here to observe it . ’ |
| 21 | This is an example of the application of what is known as the anthropic principle , which can be paraphrased as " We see the universe the way it is because we exist . " |
| 22 | I 'm never gon na , I 'm never gon na learn learn it by concentrating on how I 'm gon na do it , I 'm just gon na have to sing it the way it is because I 'm not gon na learn to do it am I ? |
| 23 | That way it 's though they 'll get close to what they need |
| 24 | No doubt it is because of the vision to train in this way that Ichthus has been able to grow in the way that it has done . |
| 25 | No doubt it is because West German voters know their votes will count that they turn out so willingly to use them . |
| 26 | Children here do n't lack any sort of ability it 's because th they English is n't their first language so they need support in learning English to help them with the everyday necessities of the national curriculum . |
| 27 | When you get angry you pump all sorts of different chemicals around your body and they do n't do your body any good that 's for sure , you know you get the adrenalin that starts making everything well making the blood move faster heart beat faster you get other chemicals ready and if those chemicals are n't used properly or if something does n't happen and it uses those particular chemicals and they 're left inside the body then that causes eventually physical illness in some sort of physical wearing of some sort or another , so gradually just the opposite of this where you 're you 're not internalising your throwing it out , but there 's a hell of a lot in there that 's been stored up there and bottled up there before it throws out , and when you do tend to be aggressive it 's not because you 're being aggressive on purpose it 's because it 's just something that just happens and wells up when you get to a particular point and whoosh out it comes . |
| 28 | When pupils return to school from the Delphi unit it is because the pupils themselves wish to ( in Roger 's words ‘ the problem solves itself ’ ) or because the staff are anxious to ‘ relieve the pressure ’ in the unit rather than as part of a scheduled policy of reintegration . |
| 29 | So what a long time it is since you came , I 've tossed it in the drawer . |
| 30 | In fact it 's because of that very commitment Mr Mayor that we are so keen to see it used properly and effectively . |