Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] is [det] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am afraid to tell you who I am , because if I tell you who I am you may not like who I am and it is all that I have . ’ |
| 2 | Tell people that you are going to meet Linford Christie , and women go coy and men go bawdy , and it is all because of the shorts , the blatant visual précis of the image . |
| 3 | INFANTS at Harrowgate Hill School in Darlington are adopting a uniform of hard hats , overalls and wellingtons and it is all because of the pantomime , Peter Pan . |
| 4 | POP into the Putney Tandoori and it is more than likely you will bump into David Mellor , the local MP who is a regular there . |
| 5 | But if he suffers to this extent by comparison with Barth , he towers over most other theologians of his generation ; and it is more than a little sad that two men so gifted and with so much in common should not have managed to remain closer to each other . |
| 6 | And it is more than just a dictionary — the extensive cross-references lead the reader from one subject to another , and the thematic index provides a framework for studying topics . |
| 7 | Family planning as promoted in El Salvador has been characterized by very aggressive marketing and it is more than apparent that both the medical profession and women are subjected to unethical pressures . |
| 8 | Lavender 's use can be traced back to the Greeks and Romans and it is more than likely that it was used all round the Mediterranean by Egyptians , Arabs , and Sumerians for a variety of domestic , cosmetic and perfumery needs . |
| 9 | And it is more than good , you know — it is very , very fine indeed ! ’ |
| 10 | Life , of course , is far from ideal and it is more than likely that the training will take place in-house on the system once it has been installed . |
| 11 | This list of requirements is not exhaustive and it is more than likely that the executive committee in charge of the planning process would change its mind at least once during the selection procedure as enquiries proceeded . |
| 12 | Aerobic thermophyllic bacteria thrive between 41°C and 54° , and it is these that cause the rapid breakdown of cellulose . |
| 13 | From such things as mattresses , wash-basins and bath-tubs , she makes plaster casts and it is these that are presented to the public . |
| 14 | In other words , they are unified only through ideological constructs ( 'scripts ' in the terms of Gagnon and Simon ) , and it is these that constitute ‘ sexuality ’ . |
| 15 | It said ‘ Many of the smaller hard drives available , especially old ones , use Stepper Motor actuators and it is these that really require that a low level format be carried out on them at least once a year , as after a long period of heating and cooling it is more than possible that the heads are out of alignment with the tracks . |
| 16 | But to understand a language sequence it is not enough to recognize the relationships between the elements present in it ; we also have to refer to relationships of absence , and it is these that Saussure calls associative relationships . |
| 17 | During boiling , bubbles of vapour are formed inside the liquid and it is these that cause the turbulence . |
| 18 | It has been suggested that in their nest-building and brood-rearing habits , ants secrete large amounts of antibiotics , which check pathogens and it is these that affect pollen , while bees and wasps do not , so it is not surprising that ant pollination systems are rare . |
| 19 | In addition to these annual changes , there are daily ones and it is these and the responses of living organisms to them that are the subject of this book . |
| 20 | The violence of the eruption and the lightness of the pumice fragments means that they will go higher , and stay air-borne longer than any other kind of pyroclastic material , and it is this that gives pumice deposits their unique properties . |
| 21 | This has made it possible to keep much greater numbers of animals in much greater stocking densities in intensive housing , and it is this that has made factory-farming possible . |
| 22 | However , where the units are overlapping and non-hierarchical the problem is more complex and it is this that we investigate here . |
| 23 | Like all good recording artists , McGegan realises that to make a successful recording you must be prepared to exaggerate , and it is this that makes Floridante a success . |
| 24 | Dominant social attitudes towards retirement place the personal needs of older people in a subservient position to the perceived social and economic interests of the wider society , and it is this that causes many older people problems , bringing into question their personal value and worth , and placing them under considerable social stress . |
| 25 | If , for instance , the therapist believes that the client 's marital problems are undermining their confidence and feelings of security , and it is this that prevents the client from achieving other tasks , then the therapist 's endeavours should be aimed at this problem first . |
| 26 | In effect this has meant approximately 400,000 new and inexperienced customers coming on to the overseas market each year , and it is this that has kept the traditional inclusive tour package alive . |
| 27 | And it is this that also characterises the responses of most of the correspondents who covered either Vietnam or Cambodia or both . |
| 28 | It is in the Demoiselles that these two influences first appear together in the art of Picasso , and it is this that in part makes the picture a natural starting-point for the history of Cubism . |
| 29 | The tidal braking would therefore be greatest around perihelion , and it is this that has presumably led to the partial synchronization observed . |
| 30 | In the age of Winkelmann and Weimar , therefore , the sense of purpose depends on there being a common cause to guide the nation 's culture ; and it is this that wanes . |