Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] it is [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After breakfast it is parade and the men stand in the lines while the warders , who are backed by the fire power of the guards , come with their lists to count and recount . |
| 2 | After dinner it is time to visit the bakers , hard at work in the mobile field bakery . |
| 3 | And eventually they said well the stereotype is basically sort of like the equivalent in litho plate making really said that this was , no of course it is metal , sorry it 's not metal , it is letterpress The Guardian and it is , they make these Nyclopone plates or something and they really wanted to keep it for that reason . |
| 4 | Of course it is piffle , but not without a streak of crazy intelligence . |
| 5 | When they cross a region of space–time it is space–time itself that vibrates . |
| 6 | But courts themselves were places of education ; ‘ With the king of England it is school every day ’ , as Peter of Blois remarked . |
| 7 | The launch of the 2,500-acre nature reserve is a giant step in the creation of a new environment on Teesside , and as part of the urban regeneration of Teesside it is change on a grand scale . |
| 8 | Whereas your letters indicate that loyal subjects who have previously supported the Monarchy now feel that mistakes need to be acknowledged and if Her Majesty is not to be seen as hopelessly out of touch and out of date it is time she stood up and publicly said sorry . |
| 9 | South of Leeds it is rhubarb . |
| 10 | With Toyota it is quality that counts . |
| 11 | With the situation well under control it is time to return to the Company HQ . |
| 12 | In part it is nervousness , but mostly is youthful exuberance , an exuberance that has so far made his career and yet paradoxically also threatens it . |
| 13 | In Virginia it is family which matters , and the Telscombes are a very old family . |
| 14 | In America it is the most common fatal form of cancer , in Britain it is second only to cancer of the lung . |
| 15 | ( In fact it is Grade II starred because it has been inhabited for more than 1,000 years . ) |
| 16 | The establishment of internal controls is the responsibility of management , not of internal audit , but as a service to management it is part of the latter 's role to review , appraise and report on the soundness and adequacy of these controls . |
| 17 | Surely in this day and age with so much emphasis on safety it is madness to surface roads like this . |
| 18 | To some the latter is paradoxical ; to others it is nonsense . |
| 19 | For Joanna it is commitment to their lesbian relationship ; Helen is undecided . |