Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [prep] it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | The income from it is then the wife 's , therefore , if it happens to be three four four five , it is completely free of tax , whereas left with the husband would be taxed . |
| 2 | There 's a great deal that a competent d-i-y enthusiast can undertake himself : the majority of it is hammer-and-saw work . |
| 3 | The majority of it is in private ownership but livestock are almost always excluded and regeneration of woodland is not prevented as it is in most of the upland woods in the UK . |
| 4 | Each such polarization invariably reflects the values of the writers who impose it , but there is a wide consensus among critics who have written about the literature of the period that the majority of it is unambitious , anti-experimental and somewhat lacking in originality . |
| 5 | We feel we do a great deal of work in this area but the majority of it is incorporated in thematic work or incidental . |
| 6 | To actually go through it a bit at a time I mean the majority of it is fine |
| 7 | As Bertrand Russell points out , it was James Mill , active Radical as he was , who in 1831 wrote of Hodgskin 's followers : ‘ Their notions of property look ugly : … they seem to think that it should not exist , and that the existence of it is an evil to them . |
| 8 | I just did the last one , the next , the , the , the next to the last one erm , I said er , I ca n't remember what the differentiation of it is , he said you would n't you have n't done it , I said no we 'd started |
| 9 | I am conscious that I speak in parable ; but all that vast organisation and provision which must be made for the old in the coming generation will bring disappointment unless the purpose at the heart of it is one that satisfies . |
| 10 | The heart of it is about later life today , as told to us by 55 older men and women who are all grandparents . |
| 11 | At the heart of it is the Church understanding of Revelation , which has constantly been reiterated in the writings of Pope John Paul II . |
| 12 | The heart of it is classic good tunes . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The case against it is precisely that it purports to explain the whole of history and , for that matter , of pre-history , by reference to a total system , and so denies to any of its implicated parts ( social , economic , racial , geographical , religious and so on ) as well as to the actions of its great or good men any separate authenticity . |
| 15 | And the bit about it is that there may well be other small organisations that might , erm be better , erm I mean , have , might benefit people more in Oxford city , or in Oxfordshire , are n't getting in because |
| 16 | It 's just like the programme except the info in it is a bit more out of date and it 's about twice the size . |
| 17 | The tragedy of it is it could have been avoided . |
| 18 | The tragedy of it is though he 's paying for it now with his kidney problems . |
| 19 | The irony of it is this : events will show that he has no need to pray for deliverance from Esau ; he needs instead to pray for deliverance from God . |
| 20 | The irony of it is that Hawkeye was the progenitor of every Western hero , down to John Wayne in The Searchers , who by that time is a racist . |
| 21 | The irony of it is this is that he has done a lot , he gave ten thousand |
| 22 | And do we know what the reasoning behind it is . |
| 23 | The key to it is choosing the problem correctly . |
| 24 | The key to it is with Simon Makallah , who lied to us on three occasions . ’ |
| 25 | The key to it is the integration of spiritual and social renewal . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ The key to it is to develop a parental relationship ’ , he said . |
| 27 | The entrance to it is now covered over , and beside it there is a memorial inscription to Loubens and to another speleologist who has been killed there since . |
| 28 | When a kick is employed by an attacker , the force behind it is very powerful and a head-on clash may well break the defender 's arm . |
| 29 | The intention behind it is to help unmask the metaphysical problems surrounding the " existence predicates " as essentially sham problems . |
| 30 | ‘ Maybe — but the fighting in it is clear-cut and necessary , with less of the grey than there is in this world . ’ |