Example sentences of "[is] [conj] it [is] " in BNC.

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1 disputing if it whether it is or it is n't , but how can we show that it is ?
2 Whether it is or it is n't does n't matter what does matter is its ' performance and to test this you have to fit the device .
3 Chairman I , I , I am and some of my colleagues a little confused on this paper , erm and I really ask that I , I understood that when we discussed this last , erm that the , the minor work which was one , one debated , erm was going to be increased to two million and that two million er , two million spend was going to come out of the existing budget , I 'm not quite sure from this whether it is or it is n't , could you explain ?
4 It takes so long for another type to convince the B t 's that it is z = 0 , that any long run benefit from this is outweighed by the cost , of acquiring such a reputation .
5 told me that it 's that it 's Sacred Heart .
6 And course we 're doing a lot of counting today this wrist is a you know I do n't mind that you see what did that wrist was that elbow I had to have a second operation on it , in the arm up here because er I had to have some bone taken away in the elbow course it stretched guiders but they also erm disturbed the wrist joint because it was in plaster like that stretched round and disturbed the wrist joint and I ke it 's it weakened it and it 's only just it 's only just this what last nine months that it 's that it 's really started to effect this but I know what it is that 's because I keep going out doing the odd jobs
7 A brick , it 's that it 's wood , it 's wood wood , would like to sort of feel it ?
8 No , but she has got like , it 's that it 's dark ginger .
9 because the obviously danger 's that it 's snapping the dowels and it 's which , it what happened on , on the case of the two dowels in n it ?
10 That 's 'cause it 's only light !
11 One view of the art market is that it is like a staircase with several landings .
12 Although it is obviously accurate to call an incipient spin a stall with a wing-drop , I think that this is trying to avoid the issue , which is that it is really the beginning of a spin and at least a potential spin .
13 The final point , which is related to the previous point , is that it is a mystery to some people why , despite the fact they do well in the squad , they still do n't get selected .
14 The problem with any general behaviouristic account of knowledge is that it is impossible to make sense of any behavioural description without being able to make sense independently of statements about how the world is .
15 The problem is that it is highly improbable that a group of patients with brain injury constitute a natural kind , even when they display similar symptoms on some test or other .
16 Their argument is that it is good for the tournament , a s well as the players concerned , if as many as possible of the higher ranked competitors survive the early rounds .
17 One final point to remember is that it is very easy to overtrain the arms .
18 All they are giving away about the composition is that it is a water based polymer .
19 Perhaps a more important advantage of Solvent Free Varnish is that it is touch dry in 20 minutes , and ready for a further coat in two hours .
20 His belief is that it is preferable if the RF tuner and RDS processing stages of the receiver are continuously active whenever the vehicle ignition is switched on .
21 A further consideration about feminist criticism , is that it is more practical than theoretical , in a familiar English way , and that unlike other schools in the rainbow coalition , it is actively concerned in producing readings of particular texts .
22 The reason for concentrating on poetry is that it is the most visibly ‘ literary ’ , formal , and conventional of the major genres , and would provide the best scope for study within an aesthetic frame of reference .
23 ‘ What people never take into account about the M25 is that it is also designed as a defence barrier against an invading force .
24 THE commonly-cited reason for opposing a charge for driving on particular urban roads is that it is a further restriction on those who have sufficient constraints already , what with parking meters , wheel-clamping and towing-away .
25 What I do know is that it is disgraceful and defamatory to label as stooges the people from the Borough Community Relations Council who gave up a day 's work to act as observers , and who have made it clear that they would have reported whatever they had seen , good or bad for police .
26 ‘ But the irony of a mould-breaking programme like Python is that it is a dead-end , a spoiler for the rest of us .
27 In fact , thanks largely to Sir Robin Day — ‘ the Grand Inquisitor ’ , as he calls himself in the title of his new book — the impression that the average viewer probably has of politics on television is that it is predominantly adversarial .
28 Basically our belief is that it is not possible to make a profit .
29 To speculate about possible good communists in the GDR is also to ignore the central fact about the country , which is that it is not one .
30 The first reason for the meeting is that it is 21 years ago since the last title was won .
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