Example sentences of "[noun] of [pers pn] is [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the other side of it is that obviously you , you do n't want to be going to the D S S and asking for erm State benefits either |
| 2 | The principle is commonly known as proprietary estoppel , and since the effect of it is that B is prevented from asserting his strict legal rights it has something in common with estoppel . |
| 3 | The essence of it is that if expectations of a variable are rational they will be determined by the process governing that variable . |
| 4 | How different it was all to be , and the marvel of it is that the plans prepared in the period after 1945 proved as robust as they did for so long . |
| 5 | The Air Force will write to his mother if there 's anything to tell , and the awful part of it is that I do n't know where she lives . |
| 6 | And the maddening part of it is that it 's my own fault . |
| 7 | Part of it is that interests . |
| 8 | I mean part of it is what I think and part of it is that I think that I like it because it works , that these things — I basically am unconvinced much of the modern tradition . |
| 9 | The long and the short of it is that he came in to replace Andy … |
| 10 | So can you give me a use of cast iron which ha one of the effects of it is that it relies on the occasional lubricating properties of the graphite in the iron ? |
| 11 | The pity of it is that this happens to be as beautiful a cat as the Sphynx is ugly . |
| 12 | The only pity of it is that they 're running out of Forster novels to film . |
| 13 | ‘ The pity of it is that Araminta will get the Lodge after all . |
| 14 | The pity of it is that the Prime Minister , who said that he wanted to be at the heart of the process , has instead condemned this country to be semi-detached from it . |
| 15 | The basic thrust of it is that it should be looked at only exceptionally : Lloyd . |
| 16 | The basis of it is that the landlord , by letting the premises , confers on the tenant the right of possession during the term and impliedly promises not to interfere with the tenant 's exercise and use of the right of possession during the term . |
| 17 | Yeah well it 's no well that sort of it is that pho that sort of phone call really have waited . |
| 18 | Anyway , the upshot of it is that he 's written a song , for his daughter , based on the Basil Brush thing . |
| 19 | The upshot of it is that the appellate court , where the matter is one of discretion , as this is of course , will not interfere with the discretion of the court below unless it considers that the court was plainly wrong or it has erred in principle , that it has taken into account something it should not have done or has failed to take into account something it should have done , and on that narrow basis I must proceed with this appeal . |
| 20 | And the upshot of it is that he has taken the custody of the de Breos lands from the Earl of Cornwall , and bestowed it upon his beloved justiciar . |
| 21 | With Elton , the joy of it is that at least you 're quite familiar with a lot of the stuff , and even if you have n't actually sat down and worked through it you know how the songs go . |
| 22 | I would n't call last season debacle making the right decisions , my own personal opinion of him is that he was the right manager to get us out of the second divsion , but I feel that given the players and money avail able to him he maybe could have done better . |
| 23 | The the the buggeration of it is that the next time round that something goes wrong , it 'll be again something that you 've encountered before ! |
| 24 | This might lead her to change her expectation of the average level of prices ; after all , if she is rational she must know that unpredictable movements in aggregate demand can occur and that one symptom of them is that the price in her island is higher than she was expecting the average to be . |
| 25 | But the sharpest criticism of him is that while appearing to be a chip off the old block , he was in fact something else , representative of the politicization of public appointments . |
| 26 | The nub of it is that since this is a double room Rachel is therefore cohabiting , and she is not entitled to state help to pay for the rent . |
| 27 | One pet theory of mine is that the decline in the study of Latin has accentuated this interest . |
| 28 | The only way you can make sense of it is that it 's it 's design to get a competitor out of the market . |
| 29 | The crucially important aspect of it is that changes in the level of prices which are foreseen , or are expected , have no effect on the level of output . |
| 30 | The old tricks should be left alone , because the reality of it is that when I go on tour in a couple of months , I 'm going to be playing all these songs and I 've been careful never to repeat past compositional techniques . |