Example sentences of "it is [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Well actually it , it is down this quarter , it is down this quarter , because our erm , our total last , last quarter , the balance brought forward was seventeen pounds fifty five and this time it 's six pounds seventy six , so we 've reduced the erm the deficit so it is down
2 Well actually it , it is down this quarter , it is down this quarter , because our erm , our total last , last quarter , the balance brought forward was seventeen pounds fifty five and this time it 's six pounds seventy six , so we 've reduced the erm the deficit so it is down
3 It is past nine by the time we start to harness the dogs , and the sky is a little clearer , the temperature a little cooler .
4 It is past midnight in down town Tegucigalpa , and it 's time to go home .
5 It is past midnight in Tegucigalpa , and it 's time to go home .
6 It is past midnight in Tegucigalpa , and it 's time to go home .
7 It comes in the evening after a busy day and tells me that it is past my bed-time .
8 Now it is past midnight .
9 It is past eleven .
10 The infra-red remote control is unique to this machine , and the only other way to get into it is via a master key held by the system supervisor .
11 It is via these windows that the system informs the Offline Operator what is happening and requests a media item to be physically mounted or dismounted on the appropriate media unit ; in this case mounting refers only to the action of placing a media item onto a media unit .
12 Er it is er significantly further er via a southern bypass and an inner relief road than it is via a western relief road .
13 It is since the 1950s that the expansion in education has really accelerated , with a resulting boost to literacy rates .
14 Since art critics have these working assumptions in mind , and it is with their writing we shall be mainly concerned , we need to proceed without being distracted .
15 Gentlemen : It is with great regret that I see so many students labouring day after day in the Academy , as if they imagined that a liberal art , such as ours , was to be acquired like a mechanical trade , by dint of labour , or I may add the absurdity of supposing that it could be acquired by any means whatever .
16 ‘ It 's always ‘ I wonder if you 'd mind ’ with him — never ‘ do this , do that ’ like it is with the Heptonstalls .
17 Throughout the philosophy of mind and certainly amongst both lay and professional psychologists there is the view that basically two kinds of fact exist : physical facts about the brain and the external world , on the one hand , and facts ‘ about how it is with us ’ , on the other .
18 But it is with psychoanalysis that the more obvious affinities of symptomatic reading lie .
19 It is with regard to this principle , but more importantly to the actual facts of persecution , that we urge the support of Labour 's leaders and membership by restoring , this week , a policy commitment to full equality for lesbians and gay men .
20 However , I should add , it is with regret that we have to take such drastic intervention , a course which could so easily be avoided through co-ordination and commitment by other agencies close at hand .
21 The key to it is with Simon Makallah , who lied to us on three occasions . ’
22 You know how it is with these developments .
23 It is with this savage , primitive element that the poem begins :
24 But even as men enter into relations of honourable alliance with each other , it is with an unspoken but ever-present understanding : ‘ I do n't desire you , I desire to be like you ’ .
25 This property is , however , not conceptualized as something in itself ( a kind of mystical link between people and things as it is with fully developed private property ) because it remains only an aspect of the social relations of which the tribe consists .
26 The depraved state of women in monogamy , associated as it is with private property and capitalism , will according to him , be replaced when capitalism is overthrown .
27 It is with these criticisms that we shall deal now .
28 From afar it looks like the classical volcanic cone and it is with a mounting sense of excitement that I climb the last section of loose lava gravel and sharp , welded lava rock .
29 The real interest of the past , he wrote , ‘ lies in the answer to the question , How did the ordinary undistinguished man live ? … and it is with a view to providing posterity with an addition to such all too scanty materials that the papers … have been embodied in permanent form . ’
30 During the past week there have been several occasions where people have been meddling with candles and other things in the church , including the money boxes yet again , and so it is with some sadness that I have decided to keep the church locked during the holiday period .
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