Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] it [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems to be commonly supposed that it is description rather than theory as such which makes the most direct contribution to language teaching . |
| 2 | Advance tapes suggest that it 's leagues ahead of the rather dull ‘ Thaw ’ Housefrau superstar LYDIA LUNCH meanwhile has been recording with pathological monsters OXBOW for their LP ‘ King Of The Jews ’ , which should be out in January when they 're set to return to the UK for another series of dates . |
| 3 | Advance tapes suggest that it 's leagues ahead of the rather dull ‘ Thaw ’ Housefrau superstar LYDIA LUNCH meanwhile has been recording with pathological monsters OXBOW for their LP ‘ King Of The Jews ’ , which should be out in January when they 're set to return to the UK for another series of dates . |
| 4 | I suggest that it is humanism — both religious and secular — that is the dominant philosophical adversary . |
| 5 | In a truly patronising vein , you suggest that it was technology , the offer of a shiny card with their photo , that attracted Cambodians to register as voters . |
| 6 | He adds that it is nature 's intention , for the purposes of generation , that some foetuses should turn out female . |
| 7 | " And you might as well know that it was Paul who shot the fawn last night too , not me . " |
| 8 | ‘ How did you know that it was Matthew and not your son ? ’ |
| 9 | It occurred to her that she did n't even know that it was Veronica 's house ; why on earth had n't she checked Directory Enquiries to make sure she was still living there ? |
| 10 | Morpurgo — Harry did not doubt that it was Morpurgo — was a tall , awkward-looking figure in beret , muddied boiler suit and galoshes , feeding the incinerator with needless energy , forcing the rake-held bundles down into its smoking contents with disquieting relish , with an intensity , indeed , which warned Harry from the first that something was amiss . |
| 11 | Yet years on how come that it is Cecil who is regarded mostly as a flawed but well meaning sweety-pie and Miss Keays as someone who has all the charisma of an old battleaxe ? |
| 12 | ‘ You say that it 's July , nineteen forty . |
| 13 | Did not you hear Miss Rhymer say that it was poems , my dear ? ’ |
| 14 | When I came out on top I immediately looked to starboard for the Pole Star and was rather shocked to find that it was oil the portside and we were obviously heading east , but by careful use of the engines was able to turn through 180° and the navigator gave me a heading after taking a sight from the astro compass . |
| 15 | And the apologist who might wish to make Huxley the aggressor should know that one observer , the zoologist Alfred Newton , clearly reported that it was Huxley who had first been chaffed by the bishop . |
| 16 | Joshi and Owen ( 1981 , pp. 106–7 ) studied the labour force participation of successive cohorts of women in Britain from 1950 to 1974 and found that it was motherhood , rather than marriage , which determined the length of women 's lives in paid work with Ms Average withdrawing from the labour market for seven years . |
| 17 | They analysed it and found that it was mud , a piece of clay , y'know , but them not being all-forgiving , they suspected that I was using drugs , y'know , so they kicked me out of home and I went to live with my grandmother and then I had more freedom there to do as I pleased and hence started going to pop festivals and things and enjoying them and getting off on them and mixing with that whole subculture if you like . |
| 18 | Cassie picked it up and found that it was silk , with a bodice of handmade lace ; beautiful and expensive . |
| 19 | And as we look over these next few minutes , we 'll consider that it was Pilate who rejected and who crucified the Lord Jesus . |
| 20 | Forget that it 's land where wild life roams , |
| 21 | Through using eye contact and body language to indicate that it 's time to move on . |
| 22 | Oh , looks like it 's coffee break time — again . |
| 23 | My desk now looks like it 's Christmas . |
| 24 | I do n't know if it is coincidence that I own a red Escort van , have canoed the Fairy Glen on numerous occasions and have had words with the café owner about car parking . |
| 25 | I do n't know if it is mate cos I , I do it all the time cos yo ya , a lot of it is jumping to intimidate . |
| 26 | I do n't know if it 's Gary 's son Mark , he 's about sixteen |
| 27 | Do n't know if it 's cartilage or not ? |
| 28 | I do n't know if it 's sex , or fear that I 'm up to some trick . |
| 29 | You do n't know if it 's immigration . |
| 30 | Well he , he said if they , if , if , some , get a visitor in and I give them a cup of coffee well that 's all right , but I do n't know if it 's money or , or like maybe , maybe . |