Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [conj] it [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the major criticisms of the battery cage has been that it is so small that the hens have no room to move or to perform their natural behaviour patterns . |
| 2 | Throughout , our view has been that it is teachers who are closest to children , and together with parents they are responsible for deciding how to use the tools at hand . |
| 3 | But my argument has been that it is not difficult to defend something roughly resembling the status quo rather than being bludgeoned into a guilty conscience by accepting that one is a covert elitist or racist . |
| 4 | Working within this international world it is , of course , a great help if one speaks several languages , but my own experience has been that it is not the ability to speak another language , rare enough this essential tool of international business is amongst British people , but the experience of having lived and worked with people in another country which is the decisive factor . |
| 5 | The reason that a widening direction is included is because it is very easy for a narrowing to occur while the lengthening process is taking place . |
| 6 | What is often forgotten is that it is us who have to pay to have it cleared up . |
| 7 | ‘ My dear Wilson , ’ he said , ‘ all you need to know is that it is not yet come . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | What we do know is that it is impossible to write any human being off as permanently damaged . |
| 10 | The second question about the WGMS that must be addressed is whether it is technically sound . |
| 11 | Another point worth remembering is that it is important to make sure that your parent 's larder is well stocked with the right kind of non-perishable foods to deal with any emergency such as extreme weather conditions , or times when you may be unable to visit her because of illness or holidays , unless a neighbour is doing her shopping for her . |
| 12 | The reason for keeping women and men separated is that it is felt that a man can not concentrate on prayer when women are in close proximity . |
| 13 | One final point to remember is that it is very easy to overtrain the arms . |
| 14 | The most important fact to remember is that it is highly contagious and one case can very easily develop into a large outbreak unless prompt and very strict isolation of any case is done . |
| 15 | An important thing to remember is that it is very hard to get HIV . |
| 16 | Alice is told that the reason it is grinning is because it is a Cheshire Cat . |
| 17 | ‘ One of the things that has been said is that it 's actually very difficult to get a purchaser for your shares on the USM even though in theory it 's an open market . |
| 18 | What is being said is that it 's intended to keep what 's regarded as a highly successful regime going on existing lines . |
| 19 | A particular characteristic of a state in which extensive social policies have been adopted is that it is a bureaucratic state . |
| 20 | ‘ All I hope is that it is an excellent game which my Rovers lads win 8-0 . ’ |
| 21 | My attitude to ageing is that it 's inevitable so there 's very little you can do about it . |
| 22 | Yeah , because the point that 's being made is that it 's only the flower of the rose which has all these properties , it 's not the whole bush itself , presumably . |
| 23 | I did actually quote about one of the youngsters yesterday making the point about you know , it 's all on television , there 's too much of it , I mean it was n't actually quite as blatant a comment as that , the point is made was while it 's on every channel , all the time |
| 24 | ‘ What Governor Clinton does n't understand is that it 's the people in the voting booths that matter . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ But what you do n't understand is that it 's Leo I 'm doing it for . ’ |
| 26 | But the critical thing with I twelve as the policy 's currently drafted is that it is location specific . |
| 27 | The answer we readily give is that it is significant because it sums up the gospel . |
| 28 | There are many arguments as to which strategy is best ( de Nevers et al. , 1977 ; Wall , 1976b ) but increasingly the conclusion being reached is that it is possible to make use of the advantages of two or more strategies . |
| 29 | I 've never used a yardage in my life ; all I know is that it 's a 7-iron to the middle of the green . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I may not like London over much but I do know a bit about the place and one thing I know is that it 's big , bloody big . |