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

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1 But Gale expects that to change.A key benefit for Hong Kong Telecom is that it already has a major Chinese investor in the shape of the Peking-owned China International Trust & Investment Corp , which bought a 20% stake in 1990 .
2 But for all the triumphs of the Socratic spirit , its true significance is that it repeatedly prompts a regeneration of art — art in the metaphysical sense which is its widest and deepest sense .
3 The argument is that it therefore provides a good basis for a fair and orderly grading structure .
4 The only problem is that it now takes a baffling turn .
5 The good thing about the president 's intervention is that it publicly recognised a problem that needed solution the very antithesis of WRU custom and practice for most of the past dozen or more ostrich era .
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