Example sentences of "it is [conj] [pers pn] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must point out about is n't just the Guild a lot of people think it is but it is a good focal point to find out what 's going on and meet people . |
| 2 | For our purposes , what matters about it is that it is an all-or-none signal , with an amplitude that does not attenuate as it travels along the axon . |
| 3 | If the painting says anything , it is that it is the innocents , the children who suffer . |
| 4 | If the painting says anything , it is that it is the innocents , the children who suffer . |
| 5 | ‘ If there was a problem with this piece it is that it is not unique ’ , said Millerand . |
| 6 | It is often not difficult to determine that relationship , but the point about it is that it is not but must be figured out by every reader . |
| 7 | If there 's one thing that is clear about desktop publishing it is that it is NOT publishing , a fact that often seems to escape those who sell it . |
| 8 | But let us be clear about just what it is that it is seeing . |
| 9 | The most that can be claimed for it is that it is ingenious . |
| 10 | The thing about it is that it is not death of the body that is important to us , it 's the soul . |
| 11 | The disparity between the revenue raised by the BBC in Scotland and the resources allocated by London to Scotland , reported today , highlights just how crucial is the debate over the BBC 's charter and how vital it is that it is made much more prominent in Scottish life . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | whether , I du n no , what it is whether it is your your tummy reduced or |
| 19 | ‘ It is because she is very anxious about the extent of his influence over her friend , ’ said Melissa . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | If all this sounds rather mythic , it is because it is a myth . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , even though having angles equal to two right angles is not part of a triangle 's essence , it is because it is a three-sided plane figure that it has them . |
| 24 | It is because it is part of the structure of attitudes to possess such unrealized , implicit potentialities , that the implicit aspects can be termed the unstructured pan of the attitudinal structure . |
| 25 | But the reason I begin with it is because it is in many ways a blueprint . |
| 26 | The sun is the size it is because it is so hot . |
| 27 | This is not out of nostalgia or for a longing of times gone by — it is because it is a real top notch release ! |
| 28 | That is not the case — and it is because it is not the case that we are making progress in the way that we are . |
| 29 | If these approaches are common to courses of study which advanced degree students follow regardless of the content ( for some will be specializing , for instance , in the field of special educational needs , others in the arts and humanities , others in mathematics and science ) it is because it is regarded as essential that the same grasp of knowledge and the same development of intellectual-cum-practical skill should typify all holders of a second degree in the field of education . |
| 30 | If qualification is hard to define , it is because it is one of the fundamental notions that are called on in building linguistic structures ; it is one member of a subsystem which in its essence will actually reduce to three terms : qualification , equation ( on which see Section 1.7 ) , and absence of relation . |