Example sentences of "[adv] it is [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it is because of this that an alternative method of picking was developed . |
| 2 | Perhaps it is because of a hearty dislike of chauvinism and exaggerated nationalism that I have not become an intense patriot . |
| 3 | Perhaps it is because in isolation human beings achieve their true status ; they are no longer tied to an economic process which dominates their existence . |
| 4 | So it is that for Douglas MacBain it is a clearly defined aim to consider setting targets for numbers of churches to be planted in the coming decade and to work to facilitate this . |
| 5 | ‘ Now , Taggy , you know well it is because of her that he had nothing . |
| 6 | Partial topic framework existing in a conversation between K ( 20+ , female , Edinburgh-resident , university student , … ) and J ( 60+ , male , Edinburgh-resident , retired , … ) in P Working Men 's Club , Edinburgh , … ) at T ( early evening , spring , 1976 , … ) mentioning ( J's three children — J ‘ s brothers — the schools they attended — the schools J attended — that J did badly at school — J left school at fourteen ) when K asks J what he did after he left school J : oh I done odd jobs like + paper boy + chemist 's shop worked in a chemist shop + and done two or three others+ and I finally started in the bricklaying + so I served my time as a bricklayer + K : that 's good money J : nowadays it is but in that + when my time was out it wasn't+ it was only three pounds nine a week + so + + K : my father was a stonemason and he started at home + and they were paid a halfpenny an hour extra for being left-handed + + |
| 7 | Presumably it is because of the link between standing up in this way and the act of squeezing scent from the anal region that the posture has become associated with the firing of the anal glands by the defensive skunk . |
| 8 | If the state 's bureaucracies are apparently colonized by external interest groups or socially privileged external elites , then it is because of the decisions ( or non-decisions ) of the elected governing elite . |
| 9 | that out there it is because at the back of my shed , I want to do some I want to tidy that area up . |