Example sentences of "it is [conj] it 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 whether , I du n no , what it is whether it is your your tummy reduced or
13 If all this sounds rather mythic , it is because it is a myth .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 But the reason I begin with it is because it is in many ways a blueprint .
17 The sun is the size it is because it is so hot .
18 This is not out of nostalgia or for a longing of times gone by — it is because it is a real top notch release !
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 It is because it is applied recursively at the growing tips all over the tree — branches make sub-branches , then each sub-branch makes sub-sub-branches , and so on — that the whole tree ends up large and bushy .
23 disputing if it whether it is or it is n't , but how can we show that it is ?
24 Whether it is or it is n't does n't matter what does matter is its ' performance and to test this you have to fit the device .
25 Chairman I , I , I am and some of my colleagues a little confused on this paper , erm and I really ask that I , I understood that when we discussed this last , erm that the , the minor work which was one , one debated , erm was going to be increased to two million and that two million er , two million spend was going to come out of the existing budget , I 'm not quite sure from this whether it is or it is n't , could you explain ?
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