Example sentences of "[is] [conj] [no cls] it " in BNC.

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1 And so this poor woman who was supposed to be asleep , And the problem is that er it 's very difficult to decide whether somebody 's actually unconscious or not if they ca n't move .
2 Which perhaps not revolutionary but to me it was er it was but of all these things that er we 've done lots of things you know , but the thing that I , that stands out in my memory is is that er it 'd be about nineteen forty eight , there was a a one of the old members who I worked with was , lived alone and he was very ill .
3 Er the only thing is that er it was the people on the workshop floor that were paid from it er rather than the er planning er personnel or indeed the drawing office .
4 Do you think the danger in positive discrimination is that er it 's implying that women ca n't compete on equal terms with the men in the first place ?
5 One of the virtues of parental investment er theory I would say is that er it 's particularly sensitive to female interests in , in in sexuality and nobody who knows me or has read er my works would , could possibly suspect me here of fashionable feminist prejudices er so I do n't say this because I think this is what people like to hear , but because I happen to think it 's true , I 'm afraid I 'm one of these old-fashioned and you may think stupid people who believe that you should er say things cos you think they 're true , not because you think er it 's what you think want w want to hear or if you say it , you 'll be accused of sexual harassment by a lecturer as I was last year .
6 Now , erm , what 's wrong with this if you think about it , is that er it 's hard to know what fitness and fittest means and although I 'm now gon na spend about ten minutes talking about it , this will be the last time you 'll hear me mention the word fitness , and I strongly advise you to do the same , for reasons which I will now n now explain .
7 The County Council 's position is that er it has taken on board , environmental considerations .
8 I would say that the five advantages of our alternative draft is that er it makes it clear that the policy applies to land outside the national parks and so forth but with less repetition than the proposal put forward by the county council .
9 That 's not the point the point is that er it does n't matter which agency it goes through it , their multi-locational site , so that 's why it 's a national account .
10 Another objection is that jobs will be lost and certainly that would be a serious objection but it 's a speechless one , of course , people who can afford it will still ride and will still employ the same people who are now hunt servants er to look after their horses and themselves and those who ca n't afford horses will continue no doubt to enjoy the spectacle er , that argument does n't hold water and the other objection of course er is that er it would mean the hounds were killed , but since I understand er hunting people kill their hounds anyway when they get too old to keep up , er I think er we can dismiss that argument and leave it to them er to see that the hounds are decently dealt with .
11 She got injured in her back somewhere , but er it was national news , I mean it was in The Mirror and all the papers and it became a , for a day or two it was er it was in everywhere , and the theory is that er it was this erm very very dry summer and a very very wet autumn and a bit of dry rot in the timbers somewhere , but it was it was another
12 Er we would say that as , that as far as pension funds are concerned , stock lending in that way should be prohibited and the puerilely ca carrying on that er is that er it should be any account for a pension fund should carry the names of pension funds and any transactions involved with pension fund money whether it should be a duty of financial institutions to make sure that any account they were paying money into was a pension fund account .
13 Now the way it 's sorted out in this competition is that er it 's points first , if two teams are level on points then it 's the number of goals scored , then it 's goal difference and if they 're all level after that then it 's drawing lots and the top team in the group have a home game in round two and the team that finishes runners up are away in round two .
14 yo you 're suggesting is what is happening now and so many of us he no he not just here but in population generally belong to all sorts of pressure groups erm whatever they may be like Greenpeace and many others erm really it 's , it 's a jolly hard slog , the point is that erm it the lid is on the kettle the whole time and it 's only , the only way that people can get anything done is by joining these organizations erm but it 's a very slow business erm but there 's no other way of doing anything because you ca n't change what happens at the top .
15 So the lesson to be learnt from that is that erm it 's not always possible to keep yourself out of trouble , but you can do what you have to do to keep yourself safe by maintaining a proper separation distance .
16 Well it 's not impossible that er that that developments er can take place erm without erm without having some effects , but what what I 'm basically saying is that erm it it er it would n't be a serious effect acceptable in normal planning terms .
17 But it 's on a hill in the , in the , in the , it 's a long way down from there to walk and , and if I remember rightly it was on the outside of the hotel , on a bank and that to me means that erm if we had had some weather , which we had at that time , then the roots could have suffered but the other clue I think is that erm it comes into leaf first and it drops its leaves first in the autumn so maybe it 's a different tree than the other , different variety , because there are several horse chestnuts are n't there ?
18 The point about the shop is that erm it sells things on a medieval theme and more specifically it has we have this undertaking that if you see it in the house , you can buy it in the shop .
19 Yeah , erm , I was going to is that erm it was always the same , two jobs down so it was due to go his boss would have then I 've been there as well cos he 's caused such a stink
20 The point I 'm trying to get at sir is that erm it is none of it is in none of our interests , either the planning authorities or even of the developers , that if we were to erm find a strategic sites policy appropriate for this alteration , it 's in none of our interests that it should be confusing to the public or to the development industry as to how rare a thing this should be and how tightly directed it should be in geographical terms .
21 Erm the difference is that erm it A Magna Park is specifically an exclusively rather , exclusively geared to B eight and is absolutely slap bang in the middle of the country on the conjunction of the M six M one and the A one M link route and everything else .
22 And just to remind you what I was saying , if you 've just switched on , what I was just confirming with Colin er earlier , is that erm it 's slightly different in this competition to what we 've been accustomed to in the football league er this and last season , in as far as it 's not goals scored that 's important when you have the same number of points , it is goal difference .
23 I think that the computer presents exactly that challenge and amongst the sorts of things I 'm thinking of is that erm it 's one thing to play with a computer toy , a game of some sort — we 've all seen them in the bar and elsewhere — it 's another thing entirely to devise your own game , to program your own rules in and then to bring your friend along and have them challenge it .
24 Erm the assurance from the Environment Trust is that i it need not happen erm , it may not hold things up
25 I would s I would , I would say it is that i it is the theory and the practise of international working class revolution .
26 one is that i it may be that the old moral economy worked because the peasants recognized that , in a sense , that was the way they w well they , they could not stand up and criticize the landlord th the , the most they could do was to try and get the landlord to behave in a reasonable way , and that within that there would then be the sub-culture , the counter-culture of , of beginnings of mutual aid and what is happening in is in part that the communists are making them think the old moral economy work , but in part they are picking up on those sub- culture bits because the , the , the whole of mutual aid idea is , is coming from existing peasant cooperations .
27 The , the problem is if it it 's alright to out-price and then reducing your service , but that soon switches the client off .
28 And that 's And er it was the railway men not coming out on strike that caused the collapse of the strike .
29 erm you end up with four different er types of er reproductive strategies which are of monogamy , polygyny , polygamy and polyandry and the first one monogamy is when you have one male and female and er this minimizes the differences in reproductive success and the way it does that is because erm it , it minimizes the difference between the sexes because monogamy takes the limitations of the male erm to reproduce only with the one female so the male to female ratio of reproductive success the same in monogamy , and er what happens to that is this little in er more equal towards their parental investment .
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