Example sentences of "[pers pn] [is] [conj] it [vb -s] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The only maxim that connects it all formulated in California , now available near you is if it feels good , believe it . |
| 3 | The real value of this book to you is if it helps you live more confidently as a Christian in school . |
| 4 | What makes it attractive to him is that it seems to fascinate his parents . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's that it does n't suit you . |
| 6 | Not you , it 's that it 's , it 's been on show . |
| 7 | It 's cos it records . |
| 8 | It 's cos it 's written on blue paper in tiny print . |
| 9 | Of course , that 's right it 's cos it 's got it on the . |
| 10 | It 's if it goes where you want it to that 's hard . |
| 11 | If it 's if it seems solid |
| 12 | Funnily enough , it 's an album that hardly anyone seems to have heard of , apart from the real Fleetwood Mac enthusiasts — perhaps it 's because it does n't have any of the famous tracks on it . |
| 13 | Do you think it 's because it does n't look domestic enough maybe it looks a bit industrial or |
| 14 | It 's because it locks better at that groove . |
| 15 | ‘ If I smile at him , it 's because it means nothing to me . |
| 16 | He says it 's because it makes him look naff , but it 's more than that . |
| 17 | think probably it 's because it needs painting cos it 's a horrible colour is n't it ? |
| 18 | No no , there are natural , we always have a strong preference for something but we can actually develop them , just like management style we have a strong preference for , for one style but it is something that we can learn can get more and try and rationale sort of like theoretical we can try and rationalize what 's perhaps happening is that in situations when we 're not gaining a lot and it could be that it 's because it 's had a lot of activity and we can actually gain more from it we can rationalize it and analyze it . |
| 19 | I thought then I 'd be able to use it as an airing cupboard but it still did n't work but it 's like you said it 's because it 's got such a good |
| 20 | I du n no if it 's because it 's melted a bit but when I tried it before |
| 21 | But that 's how it is but it says frere in n it ? |
| 22 | ‘ They say that Birmingham is a sleeping giant and it is but it needs a massive injection of money . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's too dark now to see exactly what it is but it looks rather sweet . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It is so very much what it is that it becomes something else . |
| 26 | If the glass has any virtue at all , he wrote , it is that it refuses to pretend . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I do n't know whose idea it is that it goes on and on . |
| 30 | 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 . |