Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] it is [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , the government ( Minister of Land , 1966 , 3 ) has not only sanctioned this growth when , as long ago as 1966 , they stated ‘ that townspeople ought to be able to spend their leisure in the countryside if they want to ’ but following a report of the House of Lords ( HL Select Committee 1973 ) has also endorsed and encouraged recreational uses when they accepted ( Secretary of State for the Environment , 1975 , 1 ) that ‘ recreation should be regarded as one of the community 's everyday needs and that provision for it is part of the social services ’ . |
| 2 | I find myself rather like the old shell man having to look both ways at once , because part of my division is is town and part of it is country and they have very different views about the by-pass erm |
| 3 | And part of it is discipline — you know , making your room up and one day you clean the porch , one day you sweep down the kitchen … you have different duties every day . |
| 4 | A simple process may become part of his general knowledge but the more complex it is the less reasonable will be his claim that knowledge of it is part of his general skill and knowledge ; the difficulties can be illustrated in United Indigo Chemical Co Ltd v Robinson [ 1931 ] 49 RPC 178 . |
| 5 | The rest of it is cream on the cake . ’ |
| 6 | However the theory behind it is sound : there is greater scope for improving performance by concentrating on the average producer than by focusing exclusively on a few " bad apples " ( Berwick 1989 ) . |
| 7 | I would say a lot of it is money . |
| 8 | there 's a four year , you think they 'd fit quite a lot into that , cos a lot of it is holiday . |
| 9 | ‘ A lot of it is guesswork , of course . |
| 10 | and they 're willing to take you on for x you know erm it just , a lot of it is word of mouth . |
| 11 | K : ‘ A lot of it is determination not to be beaten by the system . |
| 12 | Rumour has it this Achtung Baby thang actually lasts for an hour — the assembly is being treated to a full 36 minutes of footage. this either means that a lot of it is rubbish or it 's so blinking brilliant They could n't show the lot lest our brains exploded with pleasure . |
| 13 | If you do take the time to read a book on body language , be warned : a lot of it is theory , and theories are often wrong . |
| 14 | ‘ A lot of it is instinct , though , ’ he admitted . |
| 15 | I , I think a lot of it is restorationist . |
| 16 | For creativity is of the peak experience and the imagery in it is part of our own substance and it is in sympathy with our very being — so it is incomparable . |
| 17 | Religion can not be divorced from morality in his view for it is belief in an ordered moral government of the universe and when we lose our basis in morality we cease to be religious . |