Example sentences of "and it [is] " in BNC.
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| 31 | and it 's cute , if you 're in the United States , |
| 32 | We instinctively understood that de Niro was referring to Taxi Driver , even in this much later movie and it 's funny . |
| 33 | ‘ He 's been my guardian spirit for years and it 's interesting to be forced to suppress all my own creativity in order to copy him slavishly to the last detail . |
| 34 | ‘ And it 's absolutely spotless , you could eat your meals off the floor . |
| 35 | ‘ It is a good little crag with one or two modern routes , and it 's in the centre of a nature reserve . |
| 36 | You 'll need grout too , plus a tile cutter , preferably heavy-duty type , especially if using quarry tiles ( Vitrex makes one which will cut wall and floor tiles ) ; and it 's worth investing in a tile file or saw if you anticipate a lot of fiddly cutting round pipes and similar obstacles , and a tile gauge if you have any really awkward shapes to tile around . |
| 37 | And it 's so easy to create good and practical experiences for your pup 's benefit . |
| 38 | Dogs ca n't go in eating areas , and it 's preferred that they do n't climb all over furniture in sitting rooms , but there 's a good acre or 27 of space for romping and rambling . |
| 39 | In reality , if your pet is left with a small , beautifully-sutured wound , then all credit must go the skill of your veterinary surgeon and it 's worth remembering that , for the time and skill required , spaying is a very cheap and justifiable operation . |
| 40 | Dostoevsky has an impudent way of making his narrator declare ‘ As a chronicler I confine myself to presenting events exactly as they happened , and it 's not my fault if they appear incredible ’ — like the son of the house writing home about his time on the North-West Frontier of India . |
| 41 | And it 's not always easy to respect the author of The Maximus Poems , marred as they are on nearly every page by solecisms and gaucheries , by arbitrary coarseness in diction , punctuation , syntax , lineation . |
| 42 | But that would be a strictly literary question ; and it 's for raising quite other questions that this book is momentous and irreplaceable . |
| 43 | Pound had known Phyllis Bottome between 1905 and 1907 , when they were fellow students at the University of Pennsylvania , and it 's not clear whether it is that early association , or a period later when she had caught up with him in London , that Phyllis Bottome had in mind when she wrote of how Pound tried to transform her as a writer from a talented amateur into a professional : |
| 44 | The justification seems to have got lost along the way , but the attitude has prevailed until recently — you could argue about precise dates , but Philip Larkin plumped for 1963 — and it 's not done for yet . |
| 45 | They 've improved the chimney recently and it 's very much better than it was but we still get the smells . |
| 46 | Speed was required last night , and It 's Me won the £3,000 first prize by 0.98sec from Marie Edgar on Everest Sure Thing . |
| 47 | ‘ I 've been a Lions fan for about 15 years and it 's great to see the look on the tourists ’ faces when I walk around Bangkok in my ‘ No One Likes Us We Do n't Care ’ T-shirt , ’ wrote Mr Barrett . |
| 48 | Neil Kinnock said last night that the rise in interest rates was ‘ a shattering blow both to households right across Britain and also to industries , and it 's even worse because it 's a blow that has been gathering ever since the first day that this Government decided its one and only economic policy would be a reliance on interest rates ’ . |
| 49 | ‘ I do n't know , all I know is Johnny Mathis did it , and it 's a lovely song . |
| 50 | Geoff Wragg , the trainer of those colts , said : ‘ It 's the end of an era and it 's nice to go out on a high . |
| 51 | But we 've got a young side at Cardiff now and it 's good for them to play against these players , to see that they 're only human beings after all . ’ |
| 52 | And it 's a spiritual , intellectual humour . ’ |
| 53 | Next thing you look at your watch and it 's 4 o'clock . |
| 54 | By noon the sun has come up and it 's getting very warm ; the orchard appears peaceful , the sound of guns seem a long distance away . |
| 55 | Yet , take an accident like that hair in the gate , put it together with the coincidental gaze of a ghost , and it 's as if Fonda really has come back to life . |
| 56 | ‘ Wow , far out , and it 's organic man . ’ |
| 57 | ‘ And it 's one , two , three , what are we fighting for ? |
| 58 | And it 's five , six , seven , open up the pearly gates . |
| 59 | He says you lot ca n't play and it 's getting to him , it 's too much work for him to take on , what with his writing and everything . |
| 60 | Phoebe was impressed ; she laughed with pleasure and said , ‘ And it 's all in God 's purpose and plan , eh ? |