Example sentences of "it is [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I must point out about is n't just the Guild a lot of people think it is but it is a good focal point to find out what 's going on and meet people . |
| 32 | Partial topic framework existing in a conversation between K ( 20+ , female , Edinburgh-resident , university student , … ) and J ( 60+ , male , Edinburgh-resident , retired , … ) in P Working Men 's Club , Edinburgh , … ) at T ( early evening , spring , 1976 , … ) mentioning ( J's three children — J ‘ s brothers — the schools they attended — the schools J attended — that J did badly at school — J left school at fourteen ) when K asks J what he did after he left school J : oh I done odd jobs like + paper boy + chemist 's shop worked in a chemist shop + and done two or three others+ and I finally started in the bricklaying + so I served my time as a bricklayer + K : that 's good money J : nowadays it is but in that + when my time was out it wasn't+ it was only three pounds nine a week + so + + K : my father was a stonemason and he started at home + and they were paid a halfpenny an hour extra for being left-handed + + |
| 33 | The opening paragraphs of this chapter discuss alternative concepts of accountability in order to recognize that , while financial accountability is important , it is but part of a larger canvas . |
| 34 | To my mind it is but natural justice that a child , if born alive and viable , should be allowed to maintain an action in the courts for injuries wrongfully committed upon its person while in the womb of its mother . |
| 35 | To my mind it is but natural justice that a child , if born alive and viable , should be allowed to maintain an action in the courts for injuries wrongfully committed upon its person while in the womb of its mother . |
| 36 | Possible R O A , cross curricular , we 'd like to keep that as it is but we can change that . |
| 37 | That 's down in er Kent somewhere , I 've forgotten where it is but it 's down in Kent . |
| 38 | Tonight , not an easy word to spell I mean you might think it is but a lot of people spell it incorrectly . |
| 39 | It is but one of several dozen churches in that country promoting impressive musical programmes . |
| 40 | When he needs what you have gleaned , it is but squeezing you and , sponge , you shall be dry again . |
| 41 | And I always remember , now whether this is true I would n't know , and I do n't think I 've ever spoke about this before but I , thinking about it just now , it 's just struck me , I remember one chap saying , Well now if we put some barbed wire across the road about two foot high , he said , No horse will jump over barbed wire , now I do n't know I do n't suppose that 's true I do n't think it is but this chap said that . |
| 42 | This is one point in the course , and it is but one example , where the inter-relation between Professional Studies and the Curriculum Course is a matter for explicit emphasis . |
| 43 | The march of the matriarchal society may have been stopped here in the United Kingdom , but it is but a temporary halt , a moment in time . |
| 44 | No it It is but |
| 45 | If they suggest that the legal sanctions against the abuse of power by company controllers are not wholly adequate , it must be remembered that it is but rarely that power is abused . |
| 46 | It is but a short step , and it logically follows , from the consideration of social reality as contingency and facticity to the consideration of the painting process itself in terms of such contingency and facticity . |
| 47 | Well I do n't know how true it is but I have heard from somebody I know , whose husband was a a plumber , and he came to unplug a toilet at the erm Cricket Players when it closed down , he had to unplug it . |
| 48 | Well it is but |
| 49 | It is but a short step from this to natural selection and evolution in the laboratory . |
| 50 | Small towns , therefore , occupied a defined economic niche , even if it is but imperfectly understood . |
| 51 | It is but a short step to relate the same topographical analysis to village plans and to suggest , from their regularity and consistency , that they may also have been planned . |
| 52 | And just as linguistics ought to be able to account for the structure and organization of as yet unspoken sentences , so poetics ought to be able to account for the rules governing as yet unwritten works of literature : ‘ Each work is therefore regarded only as the manifestation of an abstract and general structure , of which it is but one of the possible realizations . |
| 53 | ‘ It 's too dark now to see exactly what it is but it looks rather sweet . ’ |
| 54 | it is but |
| 55 | And it is but right that until I can make restitution , my kinswoman 's expenses should fall upon me . |
| 56 | I promise you all possible honour , it is but your due . |
| 57 | Now we , we , the title tells us that 's in Cornwall , it does n't really matter where it is but erm just a hint of the sea , a , a super place to live I should think there . |
| 58 | It is proposed that the current library desk would stay where it is but that the quick reference material would be kept behind the reception desk together with the books for sale . |
| 59 | Right ho Richmond it is but where is Richmond ? |
| 60 | It is but an evidence of the Holy Spirit . |