Example sentences of "[be] [verb] is [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | A particular characteristic of a state in which extensive social policies have been adopted is that it is a bureaucratic state . |
| 3 | He added : ‘ The picture we are getting is that it is spreading nationally . |
| 4 | What I am saying is that it is never too late to reformulate your goals : do n't give up and just accept your lot as if it were a sentence handed out by life . |
| 5 | All I am saying is that it was n't possible for me . |
| 6 | What I 'm suggesting is that it ought to be possible to design an inner northern relief road with an appropriate junction and with appropriate traffic managements in the centre of Harrogate so that you can encourage a significant proportion of the traffic that would otherwise have used the western relief road to divert to the southern bypass and inner relief road . |
| 7 | A good application form can be helpful but what has to be considered is whether it stops the candidate from expressing him/herself . |
| 8 | The second question about the WGMS that must be addressed is whether it is technically sound . |
| 9 | The only sense in which the legislature can be properly said to have authorised these things to be done is that it has enabled the Poor Law Board to order , and the managers to do them , if , and when , and where , they can obtain by free bargain and contract the means of doing so . |
| 10 | Yes , the chicken and egg syndrome is interesting because and I agree it is a viscious circle , but in fact you do n't make new omelettes unless you do break some eggs , and I think the time has come to break some eggs and I think that 's what I 'm advocating is that it will come from the teacher because the teacher is the guiding light of what happens in the classroom , and if the teacher has it in the back of their mind there will be no science , then there will be no science . |
| 11 | Yes , the chicken and egg syndrome is interesting because and I agree it is a vicious circle , but in fact you do n't make new omelettes unless you do break some eggs , and I think the time has come to break some eggs and I think that 's what I 'm advocating is that it will come from the teacher because the teacher is the guiding light of what happens in the classroom , and if the teacher has it in the back of their mind there will be no science , then there will be no science . |
| 12 | A third objection which could be raised is that it would be undesirable if the suggested approach were to be applied to certain types of jurisdictional error . |
| 13 | The third feature of English discovery to be noted is that it is limited to the discovery of documents . |
| 14 | A second objection that will be brought is that it is odd to treat another as a rational being , in the Kantian sense , in erotic relations , of all places . |
| 15 | There 's a lot of conservatism in the vocal world here , and they sometimes come to performances to compare if it 's louder or softer ; I like big voices and I 'm trying to collect every rich voice I can , does n't matter if it 's in Novosibirsk where we heard Gorchakova , but what I 'm saying is that it has to be a complex , not just a voice and something else , or not just actor and a bit of voice . ’ |
| 16 | . So really what I 'm saying is that it h would have an undue impact on highway network and in particular on that particular erm strand of it . |
| 17 | but what I 'm saying is if it happens , |
| 18 | But erm , the , so although he , he , the point I 'm making is although it was who says he mentioned symbolism , or became aware of it , it 's er , it does n't conflict with the point th that , that we were making earlier , that the only person who can interpret their dreams is the dreamer ultimately . |
| 19 | The view that will be taken is that it does matter very much , although not quite in the way in which previous writers about environmental doom have envisaged . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | What is being said is that it 's intended to keep what 's regarded as a highly successful regime going on existing lines . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | And the five main points that are covered is whether it 's organized for the benefit of its members , which partly comes into that , but it goes a bit beyond that I think . |
| 24 | All I am hoping is that it was n't the boy friend you 're meeting tomorrow evening . ’ |
| 25 | An interesting additional finding which is stressed is that it appears that such people are more rather than less likely to exhibit qualities of psychological balance and social responsibility . |
| 26 | So you might find that if you do a thing on the H P you may find that what is being what 's happening is that it it it 's creating the wrong size addressings in the look up table because either it 's using you know , er signed and it 's su assuming unsigned byte or something . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Alice is told that the reason it is grinning is because it is a Cheshire Cat . |
| 29 | The trouble with talking about yourself the way Stuart is doing is that it makes people jump to conclusions . |
| 30 | What that exhibition in fact is doing is that it 's not saying here 's a new spirit in painting , it 's saying that we the organizers , having not bothered to show you these things in the sixties and seventies , will now allow you to see them in the eighties , and we will pretend there 's a new spirit because we think it 's good for the art world to have new fashions , new movements , or at least something new going on that will produce some kind of emotional pressure . |