Example sentences of "it is [noun] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 It annoys old ladies in Brighton , but it is proof of their essential good sense … families are impoverished but the family system has not broken up .
2 Even if none of it is proof of anything , yet you may see something there that I have not seen .
3 Although modern haymaking involves expensive , sophisticated machinery , it is still possible for a smallholder to make and store excellent hay with very modest tackle , and it is hay on which he is most likely to depend for the bulk of his winter keep .
4 It is riches beyond my wildest dreams and well worth fighting the Second World War for .
5 Most of their neighbours have children , and because all the space around them is spare , it is space over which they have no control , and therefore ca n't use .
6 But well heeled Frenchmen often wear political allegiances like fragrant button holes : it is part of their personal decoration rather than a constraint on their way of life .
7 So some horses are unfriendly because it is part of their genetic makeup , and other horses are unfriendly due to lack of proper handling when they are young .
8 It is part of their folklore that the men go out to the pub or club at Sunday dinner time and there is n't a woman to be seen .
9 It is part of their purpose to open the eyes of their readership to the true conditions of working-class life , and many scenes are set in impoverished interiors .
10 It is part of their religion , a religion I do not scoff at as it holds many elements which match our own even though it lacks the truth of ours .
11 All headmasters know this : it is part of their race memory .
12 It is part of their attempt to take some of the mystique out of scientific knowledge that ’ can be used , either intentionally or unintentionally , to prevent the public from questioning ’ ( The Sanitary Protection Scandal ) .
13 But in a sense it is part of their responsibility .
14 There can be no Christian blueprint for the ‘ final ’ form of society , since it is part of its perception of the human condition that all forms of society are provisional , reflecting human sinfulness , though not always to an equal degree .
15 Even if the horse was not hurt , it is part of its biological heritage to remember the fear , and avoid being in that situation again at all costs .
16 This qualitativeness — the ‘ manifest image of the world ’ — is irreducibly connected with what experience is subjectively like , and it is part of what is lost if consciousness is analysed away or otherwise abandoned .
17 Putting an element in rheme position means that it is part of what the speaker has to say , and that is the very core of any message .
18 It is part of me — ‘
19 It is part of my argument that this notion of service is still a fundamental part of the actor 's conception of professionalism , constrains professional behaviour and is built in to the ‘ contract ’ between profession and public .
20 In the uncomfortable interview he said : ‘ I think it is part of my job to stir controversy , as long as it is not party political controversy .
21 I can not change my feeling because it is part of my upbringing — I feel that the English culture is being swamped .
22 But since it is part of my intention to suggest how and why the work of Joyce provokes exceptional division among its readers , I shall , for that reason and for others which will emerge , keep the notion of screen in front of you .
23 A graphic artists ' cutting board will cost a lot for the large size required so , unless it is part of your daily function , forget it .
24 It is part of your professional responsibility to ensure that the teaching of your subject is enhanced by the use of these resources .
25 And you ar , it is part of your obligations when you take the house on .
26 It is part of your professional obligations to ensure that the full price is properly recorded on the conveyancing documentation , and if any part of it is to remain outstanding , it could always be secured by a loan agreement or indeed by a mortgage back to the seller .
27 For creativity is of the peak experience and the imagery in it is part of our own substance and it is in sympathy with our very being — so it is incomparable .
28 It is part of our thesis that sexual and political revolution go hand in hand and that indeed the first is prerequisite of the second .
29 It is part of our tradition
30 Erm it is part of our strategy of course erm that we are not er pursuing a hundred percent migration .
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