Example sentences of "it [is] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.

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31 there 's no , there 's no need to sort of rush at the , I think we wait and see what they 're going to offer us in er whenever it is that it comes up for renewal .
32 The great difficulty with it is that it makes the assumption that there is a coincidence of interest between all of these actors which will lead them to reject the maximisation of their own special interests in the search for unified position against the rest of society .
33 So can you give me a use of cast iron which ha one of the effects of it is that it relies on the occasional lubricating properties of the graphite in the iron ?
34 And what 's nice about it is that it tracks better than most .
35 It will be B format at £5.99 on 23rd September , and the main reason I believe it is that it has a new hardback ( Big Hole and Baby Universes ) simultaneously .
36 It is that it has lost its nationhood .
37 The only good thing about it is that it lasts for six months , then immunity is acquired . ’
38 But of course the thing about it is that it works for any shape .
39 It is an imaginative use of the word , but what is significant about it is that it reappears in that sense in only one other place in the Old Testament , in the passage immediately preceding God 's appearance on Sinai .
40 But it is although it does n't sound like her .
41 So it is and it goes .
42 ‘ No sort of future tense about it , it is and it has been for a long time .
43 ‘ No sort of future tense about it , it is and it has been for a long time .
44 A similar device can be used by the teacher out of role : " Something big is going to happen in the drama , I promise you , but I 'm not going to tell you what it is until it happens . "
45 If it asks confidently , it is because it assumes correctly .
46 If Bloom is every kind of Dubliner it is because it falls to him to transact the unfinished business , to enact it and to get beyond it without dazzling gifts .
47 It 's the lower class that tends to stay where it is because it does n't get the representation .
48 Perhaps , they argue , it is because it suffered two sudden floods in quick succession at a time of year — summer — when the invertebrate populations are least adapted to cope .
49 If Oman today is a relaxed and comfortable nation , it is because it has been led in 21 years from medieval seclusion to modern success .
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