Example sentences of "it is [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that 's how it is but it says frere in n it ? |
| 2 | ‘ They say that Birmingham is a sleeping giant and it is but it needs a massive injection of money . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's too dark now to see exactly what it is but it looks rather sweet . ’ |
| 4 | While the merits and demerits of this argument have been explored extensively , one major objection to it is that it begs the question of who identifies and defines the ‘ need ’ for an expansion in public intervention , and how a perceived need results in specific policies that produce an expanded state sector . |
| 5 | It is so very much what it is that it becomes something else . |
| 6 | If the glass has any virtue at all , he wrote , it is that it refuses to pretend . |
| 7 | There seems to be no particular difficulty with exigo , unless it is that it takes the form not of a request ( like the wordings in Gaius ) but of an instruction . |
| 8 | In short , it is that it offers a way of by-passing ‘ the awkward corner ’ , Nearly twenty years ago Professor Joan Robinson observed that the predictable consequences of the attainment of near-full employment must , if institutions and attitudes did not accommodate themselves to the new circumstances , be so far to strengthen the power of the trade unions as to prompt a vicious spiral of wages and prices ; and that it would become chronic . |
| 9 | I do n't know whose idea it is that it goes on and on . |
| 10 | erm This is quite an interesting cartoon , and really has no connection with either St Aldate 's or Oxford , erm but it was actually published in 1642 , and it shows the two sides , the Roundheads and the Cavaliers , and what I think is interesting about it is that it does seem to be quite objective , it does n't seem to be particularly getting at one side or the other , which is very rare for the kind of erm cartoons that were later issued during the war . |
| 11 | If I have any criticisms of this section it is that it underestimates the difficulties of writing software and ignores the influence the historical development of computing has on the acceptance of new ideas ( what Seymour Papert calls the QWERTY phenomenon ) . |
| 12 | If the encyclopaedia has a weakness it is that it sits on the fence on controversial issues . |
| 13 | The complaint is really a litany of er a whole host of the old grievances there that we have heard several times er before and we will be dealing with the matter in the proper place through our U S council in the U S courts , in terms of er suggestions that it is that it surrounds the question er of monopoly we certainly er do not accept that thirty eight percent of slots at Heathrow in any way constitutes a monopoly it certainly does not . |
| 14 | The only interesting thing about it is that it happened at all . |
| 15 | there 's no , there 's no need to sort of rush at the , I think we wait and see what they 're going to offer us in er whenever it is that it comes up for renewal . |
| 16 | The great difficulty with it is that it makes the assumption that there is a coincidence of interest between all of these actors which will lead them to reject the maximisation of their own special interests in the search for unified position against the rest of society . |
| 17 | So can you give me a use of cast iron which ha one of the effects of it is that it relies on the occasional lubricating properties of the graphite in the iron ? |
| 18 | And what 's nice about it is that it tracks better than most . |
| 19 | It will be B format at £5.99 on 23rd September , and the main reason I believe it is that it has a new hardback ( Big Hole and Baby Universes ) simultaneously . |
| 20 | It is that it has lost its nationhood . |
| 21 | The only good thing about it is that it lasts for six months , then immunity is acquired . ’ |
| 22 | But of course the thing about it is that it works for any shape . |
| 23 | It is an imaginative use of the word , but what is significant about it is that it reappears in that sense in only one other place in the Old Testament , in the passage immediately preceding God 's appearance on Sinai . |
| 24 | But it is although it does n't sound like her . |
| 25 | So it is and it goes . |
| 26 | ‘ No sort of future tense about it , it is and it has been for a long time . |
| 27 | ‘ No sort of future tense about it , it is and it has been for a long time . |
| 28 | A similar device can be used by the teacher out of role : " Something big is going to happen in the drama , I promise you , but I 'm not going to tell you what it is until it happens . " |
| 29 | If it asks confidently , it is because it assumes correctly . |
| 30 | If Bloom is every kind of Dubliner it is because it falls to him to transact the unfinished business , to enact it and to get beyond it without dazzling gifts . |