Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] is [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everybody has read about out of body experiences and I do n't know if that is what it was , but I was not frightened by the person who was looking at me and the image that I had and that I still have in my mind is that it looked like me |
| 2 | Everybody has read about out of body experiences and I do n't know if that is what it was , but I was not frightened by the person who was looking at me and the image that I had and that I still have in my mind is that it looked like me . |
| 3 | One of the interesting things about my reminiscing is that it stirred up memories for a lot of other people , too . |
| 4 | The significance of My Lai is that it threatened the American national myth — that of moral superiority . |
| 5 | My claim is that it functions regularly whenever an adult or older child is in contact with a younger child . |
| 6 | I would be interested to know whether this has been successful in reducing speed and accidents , but my impression is that it has worked very well . |
| 7 | Its advantage is that it allows a far deeper and richer assessment to be made than the pen and paper exercise . |
| 8 | Although methadone can be given in police custody only under supervision , its advantage is that it needs to be given only once daily . |
| 9 | Any initial work in multicultural mathematics may be seen to be tokenistic , especially if the only obvious reason for its inclusion is that it represents other cultures . |
| 10 | Its importance is that it provides a potential link from Heriot-Watt University campus to the residential areas of Currie and Juniper Green . |
| 11 | One of the reasons it thinks that COSE is interested in its participation is that it has some key technology that in typical DEC fashion , it has failed to trumpet . |
| 12 | Although he suggests he is not wholly against the permissive society , all that he can find to say in its favour is that it points to the continual necessity to make traditional values relevant to contemporary society , to the fact that the importance of the family , ‘ the very principles of order itself … are not … accepted by all ’ . |
| 13 | The only point in its favour is that it contains nothing that is toxic . |
| 14 | Indeed , its strength is that it casts a caustic eye over the club scene , dealing with familiar situations with enough self-deprecation and sarcasm to stem any pretension . |
| 15 | The point of this fracture between regulation broken and its consequences is that it facilitates corporate crime ; executives need only concern themselves with the likelihood of being leniently punished for breaking regulations , whilst ignoring its consequences for the law does not concern itself with the consequences either . |
| 16 | But for our present purposes , its interest is that it locates stylistic significance in the ideational function of language ; that is , in the cognitive meaning or sense which for the dualist is the invariant factor of content rather than the variable factor of style . |
| 17 | A valuable feature of our case is that it provides a detailed profile of the natural history of EATCL over a period of 12 months from initial presentation to the introduction of chemotherapy . |
| 18 | But Sir David said yesterday : ‘ We 've always had doubts about this policy , and the thing that now confirms our doubts is that it has n't worked . ’ |
| 19 | Our dilemma is that it speaks of a level of separation from the world , the flesh and human reality which has already proved far too harmful to the churches in general and for women in particular for us to consider returning to it . |
| 20 | BUYER : The problem with your tractor is that it costs more than your competition . |