Example sentences of "it [be] [conj] he is " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I have often asked myself what it is that drew me to Sibelius 's music and I think it is that he is a composer who can not really be compared to anyone else . |
| 2 | His reference to faith may explain how it is that he is able to conceive of the notion of absolute Truth which he calls God . |
| 3 | It is that he is criminally insane — unable to stop himself from sexually abusing women he has lured with his position or his charm , and sometimes overpowered with drugs . |
| 4 | Another difficulty with the idea of the novel as an intentional act of communication is that until the writer has completed it he does n't know what it is that he is communicating , and perhaps does n't know even then . |
| 5 | What is striking about it is that he is the first Anglo-Saxon king known to have abdicated to go to Rome and that he went to Rome not as a baptized Christian but to seek baptism . |
| 6 | The position was that the plaintiffs effectively retained possession of the surgery premises and the defendant er moved out of the premises and er went and found other surgery premises and er the position as I understand it is that he is carrying on his own practice today from other premises , the plaintiffs are such as now surviving , are still continue to practice from the former part of the premises . |
| 7 | It 's not because he is sick and tired of talking to people ( which would be understandable ) , it is because he is truly very , very shy . |
| 8 | It is because he is concerned only with a private set of notes that he is able to enrich his initial comments in this way . |