Example sentences of "[Wh pn] it is " in BNC.

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1 However , the poem that opens the volume , ‘ Ego Dominus Tuus ’ , is in the form of an inconclusive dialogue between two persons ‘ Hic ’ and ‘ Ille ’ , who it is generally agreed might as well be named at certain points as ‘ Ez ’ and ‘ Willie ’ .
2 You now know who it is you want to impress .
3 ‘ You know who it is then ?
4 I think about it real hard , but I ca n't remember who it is .
5 I ask her who it is .
6 The people who may need it most are likely to be the unrecognized ones , the ones who it is somehow felt do not have a ‘ right ’ to support , even if it is known that they are upset .
7 A shopper in Southampton said : ‘ I do n't care who it is .
8 Laughter is the same language the world over , and the sense of pride and group identity which is engendered when a group tells another about who it is and where they came from is a critical factor in the cementation of the group and fostering of indigenous skills .
9 So I decided : if anyone does come , I want to see who it is before I show myself .
10 Before you open the door , call out and ask who it is and always put the door chain on ( if you do n't have one its worth getting one fitted , see page 22 ) .
11 You can find out before anyone else who it is that 's in trouble over rates or who 's in debt or who 's emigrating , so that you can get in first and grab their paltry few acres .
12 ‘ See who it is , ’ Rab said .
13 Second , the specificity of who it is safe to love is related to the ‘ me in you ’ : ‘ I love someone who reflects part of myself , sometimes a hidden or unacknowledged part of myself ; I feel good with a you who either shares my feelings , expresses them for me or helps me to defend myself against them . ’
14 In verses three to five the psalmist reminds us who it is that we are coming to .
15 The person then ‘ squeaks ’ and the blindfolded child has to try and guess who it is .
16 There 's someone at the door — see who it is .
17 When the figure turns , say ‘ May peace be with you ’ , and request to hear who it is and why it is banging at your door .
18 Includes the decidedly strange ‘ Urban Bells ’ from Passion Flower ( no , I du n no who it is either ) and Westbam 's ‘ Mr Peanut ’ , a chirpy , bizarre record from the originator of German techno , guaranteed to send your brain running for the exit .
19 ‘ Well , you must know who it is , you 're her friend . ’
20 Yer better see who it is . ’
21 You 've just signed a new striker , I told him , and I 'll give you three guesses who it is .
22 When she looked back at Mick she allowed her gaze to rest on him for some seconds before she answered , ‘ Of course I know who it is .
23 He is convinced that a Cabinet minister is plotting against him and determined to find out who it is .
24 Whatever the truth of who it is on the tape , this chap could easily have monitored the whole conversation over 23 minutes . ’
25 Amazing , is n't it — despite all those contamination problems that have hit various recent models of IBM Corp 's mainframe disk drives , according to Electronic News , the things still boast a mean time between failures of two to three million hours — they 're must be a lot of irked users wondering just who it is that is happily storing and retrieving data on their hours .
26 ‘ I know who it is , ’ the old man said chuckling .
27 An interesting fact of large industrial organizations is that there is always a nearly unanimous clarity amongst those involved at the lower levels on who it is who is actually keeping the thing going , because in every organization somebody is .
28 If a message has to be taken , be certain to record the date , time of message , who it is for , and who it is from , and always repeat the message back to the caller to ensure that the details are correct .
29 If a message has to be taken , be certain to record the date , time of message , who it is for , and who it is from , and always repeat the message back to the caller to ensure that the details are correct .
30 In other words one of the traditional defences of private property which states that an optimal allocation of resources results from owners ( who it is assumed control their property ) pursuing their own self-interest could be invoked to justify insisting that the company was run in the interests of the shareholders alone .
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