Example sentences of "[Wh det] it is [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After which it is something of a disappointment to see that Olivetti or the firm 's advertising agents have not applied the spelling disk to the advertisement . |
| 2 | The implications of this change in tone emerged explicitly in Grenville 's setting aside of ‘ the effusions of a blind and generous passion ’ in favour of ‘ cool judgement ’ since the issue involved ‘ a large portion of the interests of the British empire of which it is your Lordships ’ duty , as an House of parliament , to take care ’ . |
| 3 | This insistence , however , does not mesh well with an attempted evolutionary account of language , which it is my concern to sketch . |
| 4 | If a man shoots his dog because the animal is no longer capable of service , he does not fail in his duty to the dog , for the dog can not judge , but his act is inhuman and damages in himself that humanity which it is his duty to show towards mankind … . |
| 5 | Every teacher who makes excessive sacrifices in the time and attention needed for his own personal growth to the demands of the organisation within which he works or to its students is ultimately denying to that organisation and those students the very knowledge , understanding and skill which it is his professional responsibility to offer . |
| 6 | ‘ I never remember which it is you American girls prefer , my dear , coffee or tea — or is it chocolate ? |
| 7 | Which it is I would assume anywhere . |
| 8 | The more History attempts to transcend its own rootedness in historicity , and the greater the efforts it makes to attain , beyond the historical relativity of its origin and its choices , the sphere of universality , the more clearly it bears the marks of its historical birth , and the more evidently there appears through it the history of which it is itself a part … inversely , the more it accepts its relativity , and the more deeply it sinks into the movement it shares with what it is recounting , then the more it tends to the slenderness of the narrative , and all the positive content it obtained for itself through the human sciences is dissipated . |
| 9 | In retrospect , the techniques that have given molecular biology its pace have hung on the principle that life , which has evolved the manipulative techniques by which it is itself sustained , must also embody the techniques for which laboratories cry out . |
| 10 | While Between explores the discursive role of women from a semiotic perspective and isolates characteristically female forms of language use which hold the potential for critical examination of our contemporary cultural ‘ mythologies ’ , the object-discourses on which Thru works are those of which it is itself an object . |
| 11 | Well whatever it is no-one do n't seem to want it . |
| 12 | That is why , wrote Harsnet , I have been preparing myself for that moment for a long time , that is why I have cleared the decks and prepared the ground , because unless the decks are cleared and the g round prepared there is little hope of succeeding in what one has planned to do , little hope of achieving anything of lasting value , though lasting is a relative term and so is value and whatever it is one has planned to do is certain to be altered in the process , which does not of course mean , he wrote , that one can start anywhere at any time . |
| 13 | INVESTORS , traders , bankers and managers often operate with only a partial model in mind about why they are doing whatever it is they are doing , and what principles lie behind it . |
| 14 | Gradually , each successive shot brings us closer to the action and eventually to the actions of individuals , allowing us to see their expressions and hear whatever it is they are saying to each other . |
| 15 | Never would I wish to do whatever it is they do — nobody would ! |
| 16 | Commander Adam Dalgliesh is coming to see me as soon as they 've finished with whatever it is they 're doing at the church . |
| 17 | He 's going to resist and negotiate them down to whatever it is they really want . |
| 18 | I was just going to eat whatever it is they have and then go to sleep . |
| 19 | It seems that this Andrée woman was the star turn there , won all the prizes , played all the parts , set the fashion or whatever it is they look up to at those girl schools , you should know . ’ |
| 20 | Like getting a wage packet again , instead of voting myself a salary as my own director or whatever it is they make me do . ’ |
| 21 | But whatever it is , whatever it is they 're saying or trying to say , it never cramps Tod 's style . |
| 22 | ‘ My lord sheriff , reverend gentlemen , ’ said the earl , ‘ you come very aptly , if Robin has reported your errand rightly , for I confess I 've been tempted to lift the lid on whatever it is they 've brought me from Ullesthorpe . |
| 23 | He used it as a chemical store once it had been deconsecrated or whatever it is they do to unused churches . |
| 24 | There 's no reason why they should n't carry on with whatever it is they 're doing . |
| 25 | ‘ Maybe next time Ellis will find me an undercover job that takes me to opium dens in Hong Kong , dusky maidens in Peru and shark-fishing amongst the coral reefs , or whatever it is they do there . ’ |
| 26 | Humans 'll come back and mend the wheels or whatever it is they do . ’ |
| 27 | So the builders have gone , and all the old biddies turn up in their Sunday best to say their Hail Marys , or whatever it is they do . |
| 28 | Erm , I think many of the young people especially go through , never seem to have an interlock er , together to create er , whatever it is they want to . |
| 29 | er it 's always been er guaranteed i.e. if a customer was not satisfied , then one hundred percent we will rectify whatever it is they 're not satisfied with . |
| 30 | Yes , it 's open Mondays to Fridays , from quarter to nine through to quarter to five , and anyone can just walk in and we 'll do our best to help them produce whatever it is they want to see , providing we 've got it and we can find it . |