Example sentences of "[noun] it [is] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 hit the head and , and my front wheel it 's always the front bumper !
2 Although identification of left or right hemisphere activity represents a fairly gross level of localisation it is sometimes possible to be more precise as to the area of brain that is active .
3 ‘ When we go in to write songs it 's not fun , ’ protests Paul , who promptly giggles hysterically as if to suggest that , actually , songwriting is about as much fun you can possibly have with your clothes on .
4 The total investment need is there from the beginning but it is split into two phases and in our thinking it is only too easy to look only at the first phase because this almost returns the organisation to profitability , and to ignore the second phase which may be essential .
5 You 're afraid of doing this and afraid of going into this and afraid of going into that thinking it 's not yours .
6 The normal bass roll-off of -6dB by 38Hz is low enough to lend a convincing weight to the majority of signals and if the bass seems initially a little ‘ polite ’ to some ears it is only because it is tight , with little or no hangover — the dual coupled-cavity technique really does give a positive ‘ start and stop ’ throughout its range .
7 … however worthy the original intention it is almost inevitable that one ends up with a pretty fair rag-bag and that a carefully drawn long title offers no real defence .
8 Although this amazing armour protects the soft body of the clam extremely well , the animal is not the killer it is so often made out to be .
9 I went to this gallery opening of my work and there was silence except for someone coming up and saying ‘ I like the green card it 's on ’ !
10 4.3 We would therefore submit that if anyone is getting a good deal it is most certainly not our members .
11 I mean , it 's stupid you wax your , why do you wax your legs it 's so stupid .
12 At that bulk it is also easier to divide into little bags .
13 A striking example of their dissociation is provided by the following exchange : on the one hand , Runciman takes it for granted that methodological individualism is ‘ now generally conceded to be almost trivially true ’ , while on the other Torrance asserts that ‘ In so far as methodological individualism is true it is trivial and irrelevant to sociology , while in so far as it is used to curb or dictate explanatory methods it is either incoherent or false ’ .
14 Of the two methods it is generally agreed that ‘ write black ’ is much better at fine lines and accurate reproduction of small typeface sizes while ‘ write white ’ is best for large areas of solid black .
15 Well , it 's it 's not exactly football it 's just like a tragic downful slide , is n't it .
16 I mean it 's same with Marks and Sparks , you buy owt at Marks and Sparks it 's only because when they have them packed , they 've got to put their name on it .
17 The latest attraction , Universal Studios Florida , opened last year to rave reviews , and although it 's popular with kids it 's really one of the few theme parks built for adults .
18 To its regular readers it is also renowned for its humorous In England Now column , introduced 50 years ago and now the subject of a new anthology .
19 She 'd got thing in her in her er yeah what 's what it is up she damaged it ooh some years ago and it 's been a bit weak since like , you know but sh it was only a few weeks ago we got some computer big computer , with big discs and she twisted her hand in in pulling one out , you know it 's I do n't how , the fell or something and she went to cash it or whatever and of course we 're riding the motorbike for the like you have to change gear it 's only a small seater , your bike 's open
20 With the diff lock in neutral and the main gearbox in any gear it is really bad .
21 In Lepidoptera and Orthoptera it is usually fat , though some insects use both carbohydrate and fat and Glossina employs the amino-acid proline as an energy-furnishing reserve .
22 Yeah , well , what but , but I 'm saying is it 's not the antibiotics it is n't the
23 In soil geography it is generally suggested that the systems approach was formally applied by Nikiforoff ( 1959 ) although earlier he had distinguished accumulative and non-accumulative soils and so implicitly involved an open system attitude ( Nikiforoff , 1949 ) .
24 In some organizations it is still seen as the junior partner to sales , in others it has an equal status , in yet others it has a superior status .
25 Answer guide : In manufacturing organizations it is extremely important that there is co-ordination between the sales and the production function .
26 Despite the British Council 's regional offices it is essentially London-based and urban-orientated .
27 As mentioned above , where a firm which wishes to retain its own identity has increased the number of its branch offices it is sometimes difficult to retain an acceptable degree of harmony between the component parts of the firm and the partners attached to each part .
28 Although the Code is the tool of the qualified practitioner it is still the model for all current nursing students in preparing for their roles as nurses and advocates of the patient .
29 However , for purely electromagnetic waves it is less clear .
30 If there 's a supply side shock , erm , if we take bad weather in say the northern hemisphere , that 's going to affect prices , but because there are some producers who sell on the world market who come from the southern hemisphere , right , perhaps , there 's good weather in the southern hemisphere , and that 's , because there 's a larger geographical area over which erm , production is spread , it 's less likely that we , we 're going to see major fluctuations in supply right , and as a result it 's less likely that we 're going to see major fluctuations in price .
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