Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [conj] it [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The reason people have been concerned about this case for so long is that it is about far bigger issues . |
| 2 | Montaner is simple , just a huge keep and a walled enclosure ; this , in fact , is a regular polygon of twenty sides , though the angles are so gentle with that many sides that the feeling you have once you are inside is that it is circular . |
| 3 | oh it , it depends , I do n't think ours , we 've actually got twenty five pound at the moment , that 's , I du n no , that 's , that 's what it normally is and it 's twenty five P or thirty |
| 4 | yeah there 's a muse th th there 's a museum at Carne in Normandy , I do n't know if anyone 's been there , we went there last year , and it , it 's a new museum , a memorial museum and that 's the most moving place I 've ever been because it 's actually designed to show how awful war is and that it should n't happen again , it 's not a museum glorifying war , it 's a museum showing that , that it should n't happen , we should n't let it happen and there 's a erm there 's a great big case as you go in which has er a statement from every country that took part in the war , including Germany , and they 're all there , they 're all there together saying that you should n't you should n't let it happen and , and and I , I thought that was the sort o you know i i it was very impressive because i it was n't glorifying anybody , it was n't saying we won the war , you lost the war it was it was a , a coming together to say that it should n't happen . |
| 5 | The danger of adopting a systems approach uncritically is that it is assumed that it is sufficient to identify system structures and to portray the multitudinous variables involved in a particular system which then reinforces the first law of ecology as graphically described by Commoner ( 1972 ) that everything is connected to everything else . |
| 6 | Er again , it 's all down to where you 're going to stand to take the photograph , and I 'm not so sure that you I think you 've gone a little , no you know , I , I criticized the other one a bit , from the same person I think it possibly is because it 's the same style , the same sort of mounting . |
| 7 | As her best friend , Carolyn Bartholomew observes of the woman she has known since they were schoolgirls : ‘ She is not a happy person but she once was and it is my dearest hope that one day she will find the happiness she truly deserves . ’ |
| 8 | m my , m my explanation of that though is that it 's true , i it could just be a hormonal side effect . |
| 9 | The only problem with their copy now is that it 's far too long . ’ |
| 10 | And it became er I think more people 's perception of it now is that it 's like a bloke bonking birds on stage , it 's nothing like that . |
| 11 | structure , it may well be that it 's a structure structure is the other way round in which case |
| 12 | It may well be that it is the first of these , his work in children 's theatre , for which he will be most remembered , for he revolutionised the whole conception of what forms theatre for children might take . |
| 13 | That could have been done anyway if the disposition were in a will , but it may well be that it is in a codicil or other document to which the nuncupatio did not apply . |
| 14 | Now I du n no whether it is possible , it may well be that it is n't possible er my Right Honourable Friend has er certain views and er and er as my Noble Friend Lord erm Lord Rippon said , it 's very difficult to make erm major er very difficult to make radical alterations without actually causing some anxiety somewhere . |
| 15 | What , I believe , makes Lewis 's view of the Bible so important today is that it is very similar to the view of the fathers of the primitive church . |
| 16 | An objection frequently heard today is that it is being unduly literalistic to discuss whether or not the Bible history is true . |
| 17 | SCIENTISTS are still battling to discover the reasons for cot deaths and although numbers have been halved the message today is that it is not a simple problem with a single answer . |
| 18 | ‘ The nice thing about keeping it small and knowing each other well is that it 's very flexible ; if one of us has an emergency it does n't create problems or ill-feeling . ’ |
| 19 | In some early drafts Raskolnikov commits suicide , and the striking thing here is that it 's never suggested he does so out of remorse or because he thinks he 's going to get caught or even from some vaguer , larger self-loathing . |
| 20 | the problem with Jesus ' disciples and the point here is that it 's our problem as well , is not that we lack a big faith . |
| 21 | The difference here is that it 's a ribbed fabric . |
| 22 | The difference the benefit to this er the advertising here is that it 's going to be repeat . |
| 23 | One problem here is that it is cold comfort to an individual citizen that he can use the political process to air his grievances , for example by writing to his MP or councillor or to the press or voting for another party next time round . |
| 24 | Occasionally several males may form loose groups together , but whether they do this or not the essential point here is that it is the combined efforts of the females that control the herd , and rear and defend the young . |
| 25 | The point being emphasised here is that it is only possible to understand the suddenness of the onset of the downward spiral by keeping in view the production of fixed capital . |
| 26 | The view expressed here is that it is impossible to quantify either the costs or benefits of insider dealing in any meaningful sense . |
| 27 | The argument here is that it is tax schedules as shown in Table 16.6 , widely publicized in newspapers and annual tax returns , which form the basis for the ordinary citizen 's notion of tax burden . |
| 28 | The view that is propounded here is that it is more fruitful to conceptualize the global system in terms of transnational practices . |
| 29 | The point to note here is that it is the lower-wage countries for which this is the case and the crucial impact of the TNCs has been to create intense pressure to keep down labour costs in order to attract foreign investment . |
| 30 | The object then was as it is today , to get from one place to the next as swiftly as possible . |