Example sentences of "it [is] that [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Today we were close enough to the front of the plane to have a newspaper in English , and not have to settle for one printed in a strange dialect of Latvian ( or whatever it is that they use for those that are always left at the end ) . |
2 | I mean we can Toyota can produce , you know , sufficient Corollas or whatever it is that they make at Derby erm , to sat to satisfy the whole of the world market for that particular car , just from one plant . |
3 | But the main thing that came out of it is that they need from us er the client reports . |
4 | Equally , the discomfort associated with gonorrhoea is usually of a greater order , and men who have suffered repeated attacks of both infections can usually tell which infection it is that they have on any given occasion . |
5 | Is it possible to define what it is that they have in common ? |
6 | It is that we tend to be left with an RE which effectively has lost its " R " . |
7 | Well , we do see a good deal of what is around us and not simply whatever it is that we happen to be staring at . |
8 | If the encyclopaedia has a weakness it is that it sits on the fence on controversial issues . |
9 | The only interesting thing about it is that it happened at all . |
10 | 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 ? |
11 | The only good thing about it is that it lasts for six months , then immunity is acquired . ’ |
12 | But of course the thing about it is that it works for any shape . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | I 'll ask Carolyn what it is that she uses on hers because hers gets rid of the weeds as well . |
15 | Could you now tell us what it is that you knew about Mr ? |
16 | ‘ I wonder why it is that you object to being laughed at by me , when you invite laughter in your stage show ? ’ |
17 | Thus an instantaneous influence propagates from A to B whose effect depends radically upon exactly what it is that I measure on A. |