Example sentences of "it [is] [conj] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The relationship between , say , reading an article in Socialist Review on the bureaucracy 's pursuit of revenge on Arthur Scargill , and what it is that can be got from staring at Rembrandt 's nose in a late self-portrait just is open . |
| 2 | If we examine what it is one participant is ready to see that other participants might read into a situation and what it is that will cause him to provide ritual remedies , followed by relief for these efforts , we find ourselves looking at the central moral traditions of Western culture . |
| 3 | Tell Henry I hope he is good and very attentive to you and it is and will be his place to be your protector ! in my absence . |
| 4 | Now making these points to and then to go backwards still about what we 've been talking about and that is it 's the same with the opera and what you were saying about Harry Enfield and everything else , that you can an and Billy Connolly , you can bring certain groups of people into areas where they would n't previously have been , but you will not necessarily take them on the next leaf so for example , this is all gon na sound snobby and I 'm sorry but you know I mean a lot of people like Gilbert and Sullivan for example , but will not move on to Bizet or whatever it is and will never do that and I mean I have a problem with that I mean it , to me it 's not we 're not it 's just reality , but we have to understand that I mean we have to understand that in the context of sponsorship |
| 5 | It will aim at a Christian vision of human life as it is and could be . |
| 6 | In 1767 one of these thinkers , Lemercier de la Rivière , in his L'Ordre naturel et essentiel des sociétés politiques ( 1767 ) , presented such a ruler as not legislating in any positive sense but merely declaring and applying fundamental laws which were immanent in the nature of things , in the structure of the world as it is and must be . |
| 7 | The company would also estimate the level and payment dates of revenue generated by the projects in which it is or may become involved . |
| 8 | News judgements contain within them an implicit understanding of the nature of our society , where power lies and how it is or should be exercised . |