Example sentences of "[Wh det] [noun sg] it is [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In these instances it is not uncommon to find a government 's revenue ( as in Lesotho ) almost totally committed to paying its teacher force — hence nothing left over to equip the schools ; in which case it is worth asking whether the whole costly mechanism of providing school education has not come to an unprofitable full-stop just before the only point where it can be productive — enabling children to learn . |
| 2 | However , it is possible that a bright flash observed on the Moon by five English monks in the summer of 1178 was the formation of Bruno , in which case it is about the only lunar crater that has ever been observed to form . |
| 3 | No but I mean I know which house it is with that one , and you do do n't you ? |
| 4 | Complaint may be made to the local authority environmental health department whose responsibility it is under s.91 of the Public Health Act 1936 to inspect their areas for the detection of nuisance and institute formal proceedings either summarily or in the High Court , where , in their opinion , the odour complained of amounts to a statutory nuisance within s.92 of that Act . |
| 5 | Antonio Gramsci , who spent most of his adult life in one of Mussolini 's prisons , elaborated on Marx 's insight that the ruling ideas of an epoch are the ideas of its ruling class , to create a theory of hegemony and a theory of classes of intellectuals whose function it is in any literate society to propagate or to challenge these leading ideas . |
| 6 | For Locke , then , personal identity consists in an identity of consciousness , and not in the identity of some substance whose essence it is to be conscious . |
| 7 | The 10,300 parish priests whose job it is to man these churches are thus a rather scant resource . |
| 8 | Meanwhile the owner the person who lived a small terraced property , whose garden backs onto the fields tried to get the hounds several dozen hounds off these two dogs who were being savaged to death and he had a heart attack in the process , Chairman and was hospitalized for several weeks That Chairman is the effect of the hunt on one of my constituents whose job it is for me to defend the rights that I was elected here to defend the rights of my constituents , not to be harassed in this manner . |
| 9 | Lyte — whose bicentenary it is on 1st June , this year — was also a fanatical bookman . |
| 10 | Those whose calling it is to be God 's agents of reconciliation are vulnerable to the ordinary wear and tear of any who seek to serve among the wayward and weak , the blocked and blighted among beautiful people unable to realise their potential . |
| 11 | The case and conversation details will all be completely anonymous , so no one will know who has used the words or whose voice it is on the tape , but together they will provide a permanent record of how the English language was spoken in the nineteen nineties . |
| 12 | The user of the vehicle is the owner of the vehicle or the person in whose possession it is under some hiring or leasing agreement ; this is often not the driver himself but the driver 's employer or principal . |
| 13 | We ca n't really see , for instance , what help it is to the driver to know how much time he spent with wheelslip above the preset 18% limit . |
| 14 | Although what business it is of yours … ! ’ |
| 15 | What humbug it is for some Opposition Members to say that one should buy British and then travel around in foreign cars . |
| 16 | They delivered their derogatory cards in turn to NatWest , Midlands , Lloyds and Barclays , and then let their feelings known with specially adapted carols such as : ‘ Jingle tills , jingle tills , jingle all the way/Oh what fun it is to be a High Street bank these days , /Pulling money out , putting receivers in/ Winding business up , with an evil grin . ’ |
| 17 | I never remember what day it is on nights . ’ |
| 18 | If all this is true , it is quite unclear to me in what the ‘ slim margin ’ consists , and what price it is worth paying for the war we should , on balance , want . |
| 19 | In whatever sense it is to be recognized as an objective fact that I am now responding in awareness of more factors than before , my reaction will likewise be objectively better than before . |
| 20 | They can go into whatever activity it is in your life that is to do with handling unruly forces : animals , problem children , emergency work , or sports that have an edge of danger to them , such as rock-climbing or hang-gliding . |
| 21 | And what about that dance class Jackie , did you find out what time it is on Sunday ? |
| 22 | Apart from perhaps being of interest to people who make a lot of overseas telephone calls , and need to know what time it is in New York when its ' 11am in London , for example , this program would seem to be very limited in its usefulness . |
| 23 | Apart from perhaps being of interest to people who make a lot of overseas telephone calls , and need to know what time it is in New York when its ' 11am in London , for example , this program would seem to be very limited in its usefulness . |