Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] it is " in BNC.
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1 | The trick is to give away what you reasonably can , to put straight into the waste-paper basket everything which it is not absolutely necessary to do anything about , or which it is now too late to do anything about , and then to begin to nibble away at the rest . |
2 | Or who it is really . |
3 | Yeah but it 's only Littlewood 's or something it is . |
4 | And entertainment as fantasy is not acceptable , though I do n't think everyone has to go to the extremes of U2 or Jimmy Somerville , or whoever it is or whatever their politics . |
5 | Now a compression is , pressure on the brain , caused by fracture , bleed or blood clot now if a person has been suffering from concussion and it 's gone unnoticed , that bleed could be just carrying on and on and on and it could take up to four to five days before the compression shows itself so perhaps a week later they 're sitting down to breakfast saying ooh my head hurts , now the poor wife or husband , or whoever it is does n't know about that knock on the head that they had previously , unless somebody 's told them about it mm , so your casualty now is going to have this headache and a beauty , they 're going to be confused their levels of consciousness it will deteriorate face is very hot , dry flushed the pupils will become unequal and because of the pressure breathing becomes noisy if you feel the pulse , it 's going to be slow and strong and you will get paralysis on the opposite side to the compression , what are , what are the signs and symptoms of ? |
6 | and the head or whoever it is is committed at that time to be taking the rest of the year so they can profile . |
7 | but yeah , but the thing is you 're gon na get someone saying Mickey , Mickey Mouse or whoever it is , so , you know someone who does n't wan na stand someone who has n't been asked . |
8 | Excuses not to do the work we think we might or should do , excuses not to be kind or considerate or whatever it is we feel we should be ? |
9 | 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 ) . |
10 | ‘ I suppose she ca n't help it , ’ Alan , Jane 's neighbour , philosophised , ‘ it 's all a matter of how the genes , or the DNA or whatever it is , falls . |
11 | This Pool who is not Poole can not be worse than the last idiot I saw from the same backward profession : he was extremely fortunate that I did not send the details of his impertinences to the Medical Association or whatever it is called . |
12 | ‘ Get hold of this wall or whatever it is , ’ Maggie instructed . |
13 | The paradox about all this information explosion or whatever it is called is that the speed of its distribution is so high and the actual receiving of it by a human being is so necessarily slow and far more inefficient than it is achieved by other methods , such as reading printed marks on paper . |
14 | These grow and mature until it becomes a flower , a tree , a tiger or a human being — or whatever it is destined to become — depending on the characteristics transmitted to it through its inherited material , the genes , which are grouped together in its chromosomes . |
15 | All over the world , standards of beauty vary ; fat women can become the ideal , or those with small feet , or tall women , or those with blue eyes , or whatever it is that seems to capture the spirit of beauty for a particular time and place . |
16 | Or compute , or whatever it is you do . ’ |
17 | PERESTROIKA and Glasnost have been the buzzwords coming out of the USSR ( or whatever it is now going to be called ) in recent years and the aviation world too , has been buzzing with exciting words like Fw 190 , Hampden , Hurricane , and Yak-1 . |
18 | Many people find that they drop their meditation practice or whatever it is at precisely the time when they think they need it most — i.e. when they are feeling most stressed . |
19 | Accell/OO — or whatever it is called by the time it comes to market — will have full graphical and object-oriented functions , Unify says . |
20 | Accell/OO — or whatever it is known as by the time it comes to market — will have full graphical and object-oriented functions , Unify says . |
21 | Go and buy some curtains or whatever it is you want . " |
22 | from tapes or whatever it is you hold on . |
23 | Either those of the market place or of those of funders or of your own cultural aims or equal opportunities or whatever it is . |
24 | 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 . ’ |
25 | Come on , Doctor : have n't you short-circuited the mad scientist 's gizmo yet , or bamboozled the megalomaniac survivor of an ancient race of warrior wizards , or whatever it is this time ? |
26 | But having done it , having completed the half a day or whatever it is we have , you know it 's not really a case of saying Right well that 's it . |
27 | Like getting a wage packet again , instead of voting myself a salary as my own director or whatever it is they make me do . ’ |
28 | " Well , I 'd have thought you 'd know that , working next door but four or five or whatever it is . |
29 | The substance whether it be hairspray or whatever it is , is put in under pressure . |
30 | That you 've got to get on with your thing and get your shopping or whatever it is , done quick to get home to do whatever they do at home . |