Example sentences of "it is [adv] [noun] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps … yes , it is most kind of you . ’ |
| 2 | Interviewed on BBC Radio Four 's Today programme , Swales said : ‘ I would love to keep going , but I realise it is probably time for someone else to have a go . |
| 3 | When the Greeks begin to use it , it is also part of their interest in mastering the appearance of nature , and leads on to perspective and chiaroscuro , to European painting . |
| 4 | I do n't think it has anything to do with her age , for I think it is just part of her personality . |
| 5 | ‘ And the lady , it is especially kind of her to allow me to stay . ’ |
| 6 | This may not be all there is to the concept of pain , but it is certainly part of it . |
| 7 | It is only morons like you who , after listening to some crazed lunatic spouting his thoughts , would follow such thoughts . |
| 8 | It also makes clear that sentences in the abstract do not in general express definite propositions at all ; it is only utterances of them in specific contexts that express specific states of affairs , where the contexts achieve this by filling in the pragmatic parameters that indexicals are variables for . |
| 9 | Collins only wants a wife because he feels that in the eyes of society it is about time for him to be married and to have settled down in life . |