Example sentences of "it is [noun] and " in BNC.

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1 It is trial and error and depends a lot on the type of horse you are riding .
2 And perhaps their foolishness will make everyone understand that however much fun Home Alone is for children at the cinema it is fiction and can not be made real by acting it out .
3 When disputes arise , it is judge and jury .
4 It is conservatives and feminist radicals who grasp the importance of symbolism .
5 It is Mullach and Lionan — our own lords !
6 Thus in the absence of the fourth externality discussed above , it is price and advertising levels ( and thereby quantity , as well ) set by retailers which the manufacturer wishes to control .
7 It is opposed by the British Association of Social workers on the grounds that it is ageist and does not adequately safeguard the rights of clients ( Marshall , 1988 , p. 20 ) .
8 To the immune systems of the animals that it may infect , the resultant mutant virus will look as if it is rabies and so will trigger antibodies and generally stimulate immunity against the disease .
9 It is Magnus And you 'd better believe it
10 After breakfast it is parade and the men stand in the lines while the warders , who are backed by the fire power of the guards , come with their lists to count and recount .
11 Scottish auctioneers confirm that bullocks are averaging 125p but stress that it is heifers and young bulls — each of which is demanded by a specific section of the Continental market — which have enjoyed the sharpest price rises .
12 It is Joan and Ted 's hope that even now someone may know something that can solve Brian 's murder .
13 Cos it 's , it is pins and stuff is n't it , that makes
14 It is air and moisture permeable , therefore cool in summer and warm in winter .
15 It is Claudius and Gertrude who are the main victims of Hamlet 's anger , and everything they do makes Hamlet hate them even more .
16 Unfortunately , however , it is money and commercialisation , not standards of play , that are tarnishing the image of major sports .
17 It is women and black people who force others to become aware of their own negative attitudes and the consequences these have .
18 Among the poor , it is women and children who collect firewood , and they seldom cut down trees .
19 So it 's it is swings and roundabouts there .
20 With 16Mb of memory — going to 32Mb or 64Mb — it is $8,800 and has on-board local network connector , a Centronics parallel port , two RS-232-C ports and an SCSI-2 SE port ; the bundled HP-UX 9.01 operating system carries a two-user licence .
21 With 16Mb of memory — going to 32Mb or 64Mb — it is $8,800 and has on-board local network connector , a Centronics parallel port , two RS-232-C ports and an SCSI-2 SE port ; the bundled HP-UX 9.01 operating system carries a two-user licence .
22 But finally it is Pamela and Belville 's play , a story and a relationship which we were happy to discover could hold the attention of an audience in the 1980's .
23 It is entertainment and no more .
24 But it is not , it is entertainment and it is for the people . ’
25 If ever a man and a club seemed , in theory , to be ill-suited , then it is Winterbottom and Harlequins , the club who once caused Dick Best to say when confronted by a bout of absenteeism of Saturday : ‘ All perfectly valid excuses of course ; skiing in Andorra , shopping in Harrods … ‘
26 He says we 're not expecting too many problems , but it is Liverpool and there is a known criminal following .
27 It is part of the daily truck in street markets ; it the kind of thing which turns on the average car dealer ; it is part and parcel of many of the transactions carried out in the building trade and cash or at least early settlement means a better price for the retailer when negotiating with a manufacturer .
28 Of course , it is part and parcel of the whole decision of the justices .
29 It is also a feature which is likely to arouse the suspicions of the sceptical onlooker since it is part and parcel of a theory whose conclusions critically depend upon the combination of the sluggish dispersal of information on the one hand and the almost instantaneous diffusion of demand on the other .
30 If we go to any local government official and talk to him about local government finance and how the council tax might work , he will say that it is nonsense and a case of trying to muddle through and paper over the cracks simply to make the package a little more presentable for electoral purposes .
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