Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [adv] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is simply that it left us stranded . |
| 2 | If this book has a significant weakness , it is simply that it takes three chapters to get into its stride . |
| 3 | It is past before it has scarce begun . |
| 4 | It is not that it has a design stamped on it , since once again it is not difficult to find other examples of metalwork decorated in a similar way . |
| 5 | If ‘ the Court ’ is an expression scarcely ever heard in everyday conversation , it is not because it has ceased to exist but because it no longer wields overt influence . |
| 6 | It is here that it seems to me that there are basic problems which are not thought through , and moreover that moves are made which are deceptive , in that they give the impression that a solution has been found where in fact the main issue has not been tackled . |
| 7 | It is also that it has failed to regain the support of the working class — old and new — that it lost in 1979 . |
| 8 | This was the language of the Conservative Right , and it is seldom that it synchronizes with the tenets of the reformist Left . |
| 9 | The case against it is precisely that it purports to explain the whole of history and , for that matter , of pre-history , by reference to a total system , and so denies to any of its implicated parts ( social , economic , racial , geographical , religious and so on ) as well as to the actions of its great or good men any separate authenticity . |
| 10 | This position is not heterodox so far as relinquo ( or , as it is here expressed , dimitto ) is concerned : Section i argued that the problem with it is precisely that it attributes property directly to a beneficiary rather than vesting it in a trustee . |
| 11 | Whenever in relation to a loved person , idealized place or personal indulgence I find myself pushing out of mind some disagreeable thought , its relevance ( as distinct from its importance ) is not in doubt ; it is enough that it does spontaneously move me against what I have decided for . |
| 12 | A festoon blind , on the other hand , hangs like a curtain when it is down but it has vertical rows of rings on the back through which cord is threaded . |
| 13 | After the initial impetus has run out , he wrote , and before one has got in so far that it is easier to finish than to go back , it is then that it becomes hard to be sure of your footing , hard to know why you are doing what you are doing , hard to know if you are doing correctly what you are doing . |
| 14 | It is then that it becomes a natural magnetic recorder . |