Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | in which he says that erm the more convinced that she is that it 's going to be fatal in its operation , the more determined apparently she is that Adam shall share . |
| 2 | Harriet 's sobbing and she herself is st ill cursing and her head 's spinning and spinning and they lurch into each other , and Harriet is n't Princess H any more , cool and cocky , she 's sad too , mysteriously , unglamorously , and she hugs her and feels how slight she is and it seems she 's luckier than Harriet , well , just now . |
| 3 | Matilda stays where she is and it is up to you to see that she behaves herself . ’ |
| 4 | The reason they recruit , or try to recruit , black policemen like you is that it 's supposed to make for better relationships between the black community and the police . |
| 5 | I I know that you 're going you that that that you may suggest that er my view it 's not capable of being assimilated but I think the the the basic view I have to put forward to you is that it is not necessary . |
| 6 | The only maxim that connects it all formulated in California , now available near you is if it feels good , believe it . |
| 7 | The real value of this book to you is if it helps you live more confidently as a Christian in school . |
| 8 | But the central irony about him is that it was not only the Norwegian people that rejected him : even the majority of Norwegian fascists did n't want him . |
| 9 | What makes it attractive to him is that it seems to fascinate his parents . |
| 10 | I love it just as it is but it can be sauced with burnt brandy . |
| 11 | ‘ They say that Birmingham is a sleeping giant and it is but it needs a massive injection of money . |
| 12 | ‘ It is but it 's not that sort of novel . ’ |
| 13 | I must point out about is n't just the Guild a lot of people think it is but it is a good focal point to find out what 's going on and meet people . |
| 14 | That 's down in er Kent somewhere , I 've forgotten where it is but it 's down in Kent . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's too dark now to see exactly what it is but it looks rather sweet . ’ |
| 16 | Possibly it is but it 's not a na proper signature , it 's a photocopied signature . |
| 17 | Guy lives on the sixth floor in let me see , it 's on the it 's if , if you 're going along the corridor it 's just past the final year notice boards , it does have a number , I 've forgotten which one it is but it 's on the right hand side . |
| 18 | Well it is but it |
| 19 | And er it 's summat sugar , I do n't know what it is but it 's electrician 's job and he asked me to post that , when did I post that ? |
| 20 | I do n't know what it were , it were like great big bits of gristle or whatever it is but it were hard . |
| 21 | I know which it is but it 's somewhere down in the corner where your brother used to live that corner down there Harry somewhere down there . |
| 22 | I do n't know what century it is but it 's it 's a crazy attitude ! |
| 23 | But that 's how it is but it says frere in n it ? |
| 24 | That 's our penny , yeah there 's two R I du n no what it is but it 's full |
| 25 | If the glass has any virtue at all , he wrote , it is that it refuses to pretend . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | One argument sometimes raised against it is that it would lead to plea-bargaining , and thus to offenders escaping with lesser convictions and lesser sentences . |
| 28 | Their justification for doing it is that it 's for this thing , this painting or whatever , and I always wonder if it could n't be more without all that . ’ |
| 29 | Whatever it 's called , though , one of the most gloomy facts about it is that it now spends more on weapons than on health and education put together |
| 30 | For our purposes , what matters about it is that it is an all-or-none signal , with an amplitude that does not attenuate as it travels along the axon . |