Example sentences of "[pers pn] that it is [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It comes in the evening after a busy day and tells me that it is past my bed-time . |
| 2 | One TDC guard remarked to me that it is like fibre in the diet . |
| 3 | Coffee will be served in the long drawing-room and , if you are to battle with me , may I remind you that it is to be in private . |
| 4 | I am sure I do not need to remind you that it is through incidents of this kind that Summerhill is judged and these thoughtless individuals have caused me considerable embarrassment . |
| 5 | The index to the Continuation Volume for 1975 ( or to the Cumulative Supplement ) will tell you that it is in the 1975 volume ( vol. 45 ) under the heading ‘ Infants , Children and Young Persons , ’ page 669 . |
| 6 | Had I had the receiver in my hand when some break in the conversation occurred at this point , I should have explained to you that it is in fact neither ; it is merely an examination of the various modes of thinking which the phrase implies — an examination which , in the tradition of British philosophical inquiry , seeks merely to study and perhaps oil the conceptual machinery and then to put it back more or less as it was . |
| 7 | Those more experienced than Marie in practising acts of intimidation and violence could have told her that it is of ten a mistake to delay , to let your victims talk to you . |
| 8 | Campbell is not saying that Christ takes our sin upon himself but he identifies so closely with us that it is as if he makes our confession and is thus separated from the presence of God for us . |
| 9 | Somehow , the châteaux owners have been able to persuade us that it is in our interest to pay for the wine before it has been bottled and to finance its cellar maturation , which in the case of the better wines takes from ten to fifteen or even twenty years . |