Example sentences of "[noun sg] of it [be] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in due course er when I was still off with flu , erm back to the specialist another test , you know , and that was er March , April of last year and the result of it was that there is something in there which is characteristic of what 's , what we call multiple sclerosis which seems to me is about as broad as it 's long , you know , it 's , it 's a very large |
| 2 | And the other side of it is that obviously you , you do n't want to be going to the D S S and asking for erm State benefits either |
| 3 | The principle is commonly known as proprietary estoppel , and since the effect of it is that B is prevented from asserting his strict legal rights it has something in common with estoppel . |
| 4 | The essence of it is that if expectations of a variable are rational they will be determined by the process governing that variable . |
| 5 | How different it was all to be , and the marvel of it is that the plans prepared in the period after 1945 proved as robust as they did for so long . |
| 6 | The Air Force will write to his mother if there 's anything to tell , and the awful part of it is that I do n't know where she lives . |
| 7 | And the maddening part of it is that it 's my own fault . |
| 8 | Part of it is that interests . |
| 9 | I mean part of it is what I think and part of it is that I think that I like it because it works , that these things — I basically am unconvinced much of the modern tradition . |
| 10 | Of course part of it was that McLaren were placing their bets on Prost . |
| 11 | And the worst part of it was that it had been so wonderful that it would be hard to avoid doing it again . |
| 12 | And all the time you were n't really there , you were somewhere else entirely , and the funniest part of it was that you ended up looking like a pro , like a model who lived for these moments in the public eye . |
| 13 | The ingenuity of it was that it operated exactly like a Jacquard loom , which is a loom for weaving tapestries without human control no matter how intricate or varied the design . |
| 14 | The long and the short of it is that he came in to replace Andy … |
| 15 | The pity of it is that this happens to be as beautiful a cat as the Sphynx is ugly . |
| 16 | The only pity of it is that they 're running out of Forster novels to film . |
| 17 | ‘ The pity of it is that Araminta will get the Lodge after all . |
| 18 | The pity of it is that the Prime Minister , who said that he wanted to be at the heart of the process , has instead condemned this country to be semi-detached from it . |
| 19 | The pity of it was that she had n't made a bigger part for herself in the night 's scenario ; she was getting polite nods and hellos from people that she already knew slightly , and curious glances from most of the others . |
| 20 | The basic thrust of it is that it should be looked at only exceptionally : Lloyd . |
| 21 | The basis of it is that the landlord , by letting the premises , confers on the tenant the right of possession during the term and impliedly promises not to interfere with the tenant 's exercise and use of the right of possession during the term . |
| 22 | Yeah well it 's no well that sort of it is that pho that sort of phone call really have waited . |
| 23 | Anyway , the upshot of it is that he 's written a song , for his daughter , based on the Basil Brush thing . |
| 24 | The upshot of it is that the appellate court , where the matter is one of discretion , as this is of course , will not interfere with the discretion of the court below unless it considers that the court was plainly wrong or it has erred in principle , that it has taken into account something it should not have done or has failed to take into account something it should have done , and on that narrow basis I must proceed with this appeal . |
| 25 | And the upshot of it is that he has taken the custody of the de Breos lands from the Earl of Cornwall , and bestowed it upon his beloved justiciar . |
| 26 | With Elton , the joy of it is that at least you 're quite familiar with a lot of the stuff , and even if you have n't actually sat down and worked through it you know how the songs go . |
| 27 | The the the buggeration of it is that the next time round that something goes wrong , it 'll be again something that you 've encountered before ! |
| 28 | Anyway er it The outcome of it was that the Spencer Union was formed , George Spencer , er i in collaboration with er the mine owners , you see ? |
| 29 | Yet the truth of it was that the estates were going to rack and ruin . |
| 30 | The truth of it was that he was even less certain of her now than he 'd been at the beginning ; how she thought , the way she might react as the world around her changed . |