Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] it is [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the same proposal , associated with the Port Royal grammar and earlier versions of Chomskyan grammar , which has already been mentioned in this chapter in connexion with prenominal attributives ( 3.2 and 3.3 ) ; or rather it is part of the same proposal , since the full clause with adjective in post-copular position is claimed as the " origin " for both sorts of attributive . |
| 2 | Or perhaps it is Claudine you do not like ? ’ |
| 3 | The simplistic rule seems to be that almost everything in Europe ( in modem terms ) is either north-east-south-west or else it is east-west . |
| 4 | When this stops , either N is a goal or else it is fail and the task has no solution . |
| 5 | Arthur Cox 's admiration for John Fashanu is well known , and perhaps it is time for the Maxwell millions to be used to purchase just such a battering Ram . |
| 6 | The sweeping has not been great yet and perhaps it is time that some ball ‘ off the top ’ is considered as an option . |
| 7 | We promised you more of that Hudson Hawk map , and here it is courtesy of David Pitchforth . |
| 8 | There are some people who have a remarkable ability to attract the opposite sex , and sometimes it is sex that it 's all about . |
| 9 | But here it is epigraphy which has added most strikingly to our knowledge : as early as Herodotus ' day there had been Persians with names like Megabates at Halikarnassus ( ML 32 ) , and new inscriptions from fourth-century Labraunda , a sanctuary in Persian-held Karia , attest the Iranian proper names Phrathethnes and Ariarames ( Inscriptions of Labraunda 77 ; 28 ) . |