Example sentences of "[verb] it [is] [noun sg] of " in BNC.

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1 But your chest is , is sounding clear and I expect it 's management of the hernia that 's going
2 Has society modified it 's conception of family and of black sheep , or are these changes the outcome of a climate of openness I think we 've touched on this , to some extent , already , by saying things have changed .
3 She says a great many doctors say it 's part of ageing like grey hair , your bones become less dense .
4 She says it 's play of a different standard .
5 He says it 's part of the staff 's contract that they work different shift from time to time — at times of crisis or if someone is sick we have to ask someone who knows the job to cover .
6 Dad says it 's change of life .
7 If someone says it 's sort of , Oh it 's six tenths , and Oh well I could cancel that down ca n't I .
8 When this will be available has still to be announced , but Powersoft says it is part of a larger strategy in which PowerBuilder will embrace distributed network computing in addition to the client-server model which is currently its forte .
9 Do you feel it 's kind of downhill ?
10 He would begin , presumably , by noting the larger-scale features of context : what channel is being used ( we shall say speech ) , what language code is being used ( we shall specify it is English ) , what message-form is being performed ( we shall specify it is conversation ) , what event is it embedded in ( we shall specify it is part of an interview ) .
11 This speaker and others commented on the differences in the Jamaican and British types of Creole : The sound , the way [ they speak ] — it 's more or less the same , it is the same , same words the same everyfing , but — the way my parents speak it , it does n't sound affected , put it that way , it 's more like me and you speaking now , it 's more fluent , and not so harsh — but when we speak it 's sort of h-heavy tongue , I du n no .
12 Er the second polygyny where you have one male and then females and here reproductive success erm meaning that there 's a large again you 'll have the males who 'll have the large reproductive success than males who have none at all and erm of course often differences between male and female because the male has and the male has opportunities to erm try to control success rate the female biological and er consequently with this kind of system from female choice and male competition and er are about eighty percent and er polygamy is when you have many males and many females and er is also and er I would assume it 's kind of like males have opportunities .
13 Well I mean it 's impor I think it 's quite important to remember it 's sort of a means to an end .
14 With its existence thus assumed it is knowledge of the external world which has to be explained .
15 The sleeves and shoulders are very sloping — can you see it 's sort of , the line 's gone very drooping , I mean somebody said it gave the impression of melting butter , and , and that 's really the sort of figure that you 've got .
16 and er , you know it 's part of a spectrum , and if we 're all as aware of er mental health as we are with physical health now , and if that was , was carried out in public education campaigns and in schools , I think you 're right , we would have this right to mental illness as part of a overall mental health .
17 An added benefit is that if you need to make a claim you know it 's part of the intermediary 's daily routine so they can help you to minimise inconvenience and disruption to your business .
18 Erm I mean you know it 's sort of there were certainly there were certainly groups of black tenants and white tenants who mixed , and there were certainly groups of of white tenants who would n't mix with the black tenants and vice versa .
19 It 's like it 's it was a you know it 's been and still is an experience you know it 's sort of n none of us almost you know we we do n't realize it 's happening and you know you like back on the minutes of .
20 Right , but one of the things we have to remember is , and I know it 's sort of a sha , but you have the experience of last year and , that has to be shared you know to sort of cut the corners yo you 've got ta pass it back a year or up a year , whichever whatever happens and you 've made a very valid comment there and you need to make note of that that , you know somehow you have to work round Rob to get it
21 It 's , you know , it 's like what 's his Captain Oates was it , going out into the tent in the Antarctic or something , you know it 's sort of I may be gone for a while , you know , in the in the , into the wilderness and never to return so that in , in the British structure er politicians are , their loyalty is central rather than local because their political futures are determined centrally rather than locally .
22 I mean , I know it 's sort of the cheapest
23 Well I just think of the fact and I know it 's sort of miserable but Christmas night I think well , if you 've got ta sort of something like you 've got to put up with your mum and dad and I think well just the more the merrier .
24 You know it 's sort of mi mi miss the screw holes .
25 And he barely say you know it 's sort of .
26 You know it 's sort of mixed gold but like a minuscule amount
27 It 's more just to slow the thing up , when it does slide it 's kind of like ‘ Oh ! ’ and you kinda dig in your knees and everything and it 's a bit of a moment . ’
28 When we got to within quarter of an hour q sorry quarter of a mile of the the actual village itself , and remember it 's quarter of a mile I 'm talking about not ten yards fifteen yards away , we saw a railway embankment in front of us .
29 I assume it 's kind of
30 Cap it 's sort of have these strings things sticking out I just do n't like it whatever it is .
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