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

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1 The reason as we have seen is that it succeeds in employing more information than any alternative system .
2 Erm in t the second most important criterion I would have thought is that it needs to be on a public transport corridor .
3 ‘ The thing about directing is that it depends on how you read a play .
4 There 's a lot of conservatism in the vocal world here , and they sometimes come to performances to compare if it 's louder or softer ; I like big voices and I 'm trying to collect every rich voice I can , does n't matter if it 's in Novosibirsk where we heard Gorchakova , but what I 'm saying is that it has to be a complex , not just a voice and something else , or not just actor and a bit of voice . ’
5 The reason this one survived is because it travelled on the tour bus and not on the chartered plane , which crashed after take-off from Mason City airport in Iowa , while taking Holly , the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens to a gig in Moorhead , Minnesota .
6 It consists of three parallel cylinders of spongy tissue enclosed in an outer sheath of elastic skin and all we ask is that it stiffens on demand and performs its time-honoured functions without complaint .
7 The only way that 's going to happen is if it looks like a professional West End production .
8 Yeah but but the point I 'm trying to make is that it seems to me that if we 're continually spending money on advertising , we 're creating another problem elsewhere .
9 Erm the fourth advantage I would say is that it focuses on the balance between the need to promote rural enterprise and the need to protect the countryside .
10 One question that immediately arises is whether it refers to the content of speech or to the form — the sequencing of utterances , for instance .
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