Example sentences of "that is what it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was , he decided , Emersonianism — a disease ( if that is what it is ) which is certainly no less rife now than it was when Winters made his diagnosis fifty years ago . |
| 2 | In other respects , however , the new beginning , the new creation , for that is what it is , seems bright enough . |
| 3 | At the time of the cash call the group promised shareholders unchanged dividends totalling 6p for the year , and that is what it is they are getting , the final of 3¾p payable on July 1 . |
| 4 | Moderation is fine , if that is what it is and what It remains . |
| 5 | In a way , that is what it is . |
| 6 | On October 4th this year this little railway , for that is what it is being only two foot wide and 500 yards long , carried no fewer than 800 people in five hours . |
| 7 | The study of human nature is , in good part , the study of human conventions , and that is what it is from the strictest ethological point of view . |
| 8 | Thus nobody seems to notice that the oddest thing about the STV is precisely that it is a single vote — for that is what it is , no matter how many preferences are expressed . |
| 9 | ‘ If that is what it is , Father , yes , it 's here . ’ |
| 10 | However , perhaps put more simply , one benefit of the Bill will be to increase the respect for women and for their right — because that is what it is — ; to say ‘ No ’ and to be understood to mean ‘ No ’ . ’ |
| 11 | That failed , so the Government are taking money from the taxpayer to the tune , with the assisted places scheme , of more than £500 million — That is what it is costing , based on the Government 's own figures . |
| 12 | That is what it is , a tool to help police officers carry out their difficult task of investigating and detecting crime and bringing offenders to justice . |
| 13 | That is what it is all about . |
| 14 | Left to itself and that is what it is when it dies — the body tends to revert to a state of equilibrium with its environment . |
| 15 | That is what it is for . |
| 16 | That is what it is . |
| 17 | That is what it is . |