Example sentences of "it is [subord] [pron] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | The big question mark over it is whether there is the political will in Whitehall to keep Mr Patten 's pledge to provide the resources to police the environment . |
| 2 | whether , I du n no , what it is whether it is your your tummy reduced or |
| 3 | The Secretary of State has given nothing today but bland generalities , and the situation will continue as it is until there is a change of Government policy . |
| 4 | It is because what is said in the House is so important to MPs that John Major can not brush aside the Iraqgate charges . |
| 5 | Indeed , it is because there is no silent majority , no single entity which is being attacked by a hostile element , that this form is increasing . |
| 6 | If this explanation is simplistic , it is because there is little point in saying more about Minamata now that the classic written account of the tragedy is available in English . |
| 7 | The larvae of ichneumid wasps are parasitic on the developmental stages of insects or spiders , which egg laying females locate by searching narrowly circumscribed micro-habitats ; they are as much niche-specific as host-specific , and it is because there is such a range of niches in a garden that there are so many kinds of adult wasps . |
| 8 | It is because there is so much potential in individuals that even the largest degree of stretch that we can put on them still leaves plenty more capacity , provided it is applied gradually , like stretching elastic ; and I believe this is a prime feature of an organization which utilizes the skills of its people . |
| 9 | ‘ It is because she is very anxious about the extent of his influence over her friend , ’ said Melissa . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | If all this sounds rather mythic , it is because it is a myth . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But the reason I begin with it is because it is in many ways a blueprint . |
| 16 | The sun is the size it is because it is so hot . |
| 17 | This is not out of nostalgia or for a longing of times gone by — it is because it is a real top notch release ! |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In most cases it is because someone is withholding information to increase their power . |
| 23 | And my handkerchief such as it is if she is no . |
| 24 | such as it is if she is , no , I have to go to the a loo or something get some paper , I sha n't worry about them , such a . |