Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [conj] it [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They say that Birmingham is a sleeping giant and it is but it needs a massive injection of money . |
| 2 | While the merits and demerits of this argument have been explored extensively , one major objection to it is that it begs the question of who identifies and defines the ‘ need ’ for an expansion in public intervention , and how a perceived need results in specific policies that produce an expanded state sector . |
| 3 | There seems to be no particular difficulty with exigo , unless it is that it takes the form not of a request ( like the wordings in Gaius ) but of an instruction . |
| 4 | In short , it is that it offers a way of by-passing ‘ the awkward corner ’ , Nearly twenty years ago Professor Joan Robinson observed that the predictable consequences of the attainment of near-full employment must , if institutions and attitudes did not accommodate themselves to the new circumstances , be so far to strengthen the power of the trade unions as to prompt a vicious spiral of wages and prices ; and that it would become chronic . |
| 5 | If I have any criticisms of this section it is that it underestimates the difficulties of writing software and ignores the influence the historical development of computing has on the acceptance of new ideas ( what Seymour Papert calls the QWERTY phenomenon ) . |
| 6 | The complaint is really a litany of er a whole host of the old grievances there that we have heard several times er before and we will be dealing with the matter in the proper place through our U S council in the U S courts , in terms of er suggestions that it is that it surrounds the question er of monopoly we certainly er do not accept that thirty eight percent of slots at Heathrow in any way constitutes a monopoly it certainly does not . |
| 7 | The great difficulty with it is that it makes the assumption that there is a coincidence of interest between all of these actors which will lead them to reject the maximisation of their own special interests in the search for unified position against the rest of society . |
| 8 | It will be B format at £5.99 on 23rd September , and the main reason I believe it is that it has a new hardback ( Big Hole and Baby Universes ) simultaneously . |