Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [conj] it [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the encyclopaedia has a weakness it is that it sits on the fence on controversial issues . |
| 2 | The only interesting thing about it is that it happened at all . |
| 3 | So can you give me a use of cast iron which ha one of the effects of it is that it relies on the occasional lubricating properties of the graphite in the iron ? |
| 4 | The only good thing about it is that it lasts for six months , then immunity is acquired . ’ |
| 5 | But of course the thing about it is that it works for any shape . |
| 6 | It is an imaginative use of the word , but what is significant about it is that it reappears in that sense in only one other place in the Old Testament , in the passage immediately preceding God 's appearance on Sinai . |
| 7 | If Bloom is every kind of Dubliner it is because it falls to him to transact the unfinished business , to enact it and to get beyond it without dazzling gifts . |