Example sentences of "[pron] is [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Alcohol did me the greatest favour , which is that it brought me down to earth . |
| 2 | There is , however , a problem with this theoretical account , which is that it depends , as mentioned , on the validity of the efficient market hypothesis , that is , it assumes that the underlying value of the company 's business is accurately reflected in the market price of its shares . |
| 3 | This conception of services has its attractions , not least of which is that it appears to distinguish the output of services from that of manufacturing . |
| 4 | An analysis of the artefact must begin with its most obvious characteristic , which is that it exists as a physically concrete form independent of any individual 's mental image of it . |
| 5 | This is the great hall which is which is although it looks finished is actually by no means finished , I was just explaining to Mike we still need a go there , we still need a table there , we need all the windows to be done and we need three thousand pounds for that window . |
| 6 | The essential feature of the life which Eliot had constructed for himself is that it contained as few surprises as possible : it has been said that , for over thirty years , he patronized the same tailor , the same tobacconist and the same wine merchant . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The only maxim that connects it all formulated in California , now available near you is if it feels good , believe it . |
| 9 | The real value of this book to you is if it helps you live more confidently as a Christian in school . |
| 10 | Everything is as it has been and will be . ’ |
| 11 | One is that it displaces wage costs out of the more expensive core to the somewhat cheaper periphery ; another is that it leads to stable long-term relations with suppliers which open up multi-directional flows of information between the partners in the subcontracting network . |
| 12 | I think one thing that we 've got to do is Dave 's post one is that it 's got to be eye levelled and C P O's right ? |
| 13 | One is that it has lapsed into chaos . |
| 14 | One is that it provides scope for corruption ; e.g. , in the placing of government purchases , the allocation of commodities in excess demand , and in regulatory activities . |
| 15 | One is that it applies to both molars and incisors ; secondly , a check of the pellet debris failed to reveal any additional isolated teeth ; and thirdly , the teeth that are present show an advanced state of degradation due to digestive corrosion ( see below ) . |
| 16 | One is that it makes people er it gives people experience of participation which is itself an improving matter . |
| 17 | There is as it happens an Anglo-Saxon proverb analogous to Lord Acton 's , but still significantly different . |
| 18 | What makes it attractive to him is that it seems to fascinate his parents . |
| 19 | But that 's how it is but it says frere in n it ? |
| 20 | ‘ They say that Birmingham is a sleeping giant and it is but it needs a massive injection of money . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's too dark now to see exactly what it is but it looks rather sweet . ’ |
| 22 | While the merits and demerits of this argument have been explored extensively , one major objection to it is that it begs the question of who identifies and defines the ‘ need ’ for an expansion in public intervention , and how a perceived need results in specific policies that produce an expanded state sector . |
| 23 | It is so very much what it is that it becomes something else . |
| 24 | If the glass has any virtue at all , he wrote , it is that it refuses to pretend . |
| 25 | There seems to be no particular difficulty with exigo , unless it is that it takes the form not of a request ( like the wordings in Gaius ) but of an instruction . |
| 26 | In short , it is that it offers a way of by-passing ‘ the awkward corner ’ , Nearly twenty years ago Professor Joan Robinson observed that the predictable consequences of the attainment of near-full employment must , if institutions and attitudes did not accommodate themselves to the new circumstances , be so far to strengthen the power of the trade unions as to prompt a vicious spiral of wages and prices ; and that it would become chronic . |
| 27 | I do n't know whose idea it is that it goes on and on . |
| 28 | erm This is quite an interesting cartoon , and really has no connection with either St Aldate 's or Oxford , erm but it was actually published in 1642 , and it shows the two sides , the Roundheads and the Cavaliers , and what I think is interesting about it is that it does seem to be quite objective , it does n't seem to be particularly getting at one side or the other , which is very rare for the kind of erm cartoons that were later issued during the war . |
| 29 | If I have any criticisms of this section it is that it underestimates the difficulties of writing software and ignores the influence the historical development of computing has on the acceptance of new ideas ( what Seymour Papert calls the QWERTY phenomenon ) . |
| 30 | If the encyclopaedia has a weakness it is that it sits on the fence on controversial issues . |