Example sentences of "of [noun] [conj] it [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is called the Hall of Secrets but it is the wrong place to whisper them . |
| 2 | erm he would get , he would get a lot of support because it is , it can be read as r as being restorationist but |
| 3 | Now in her case we put her on two fifties but that i uses up an awful lot of skin and it 's a real hassle , so er |
| 4 | ‘ I 've got quite a lot of hair but it 's fine so , to make it look good , I need to spend a great deal of effort on it . |
| 5 | The Ober Gabelhorn-Wellenkuppe traverse , the most frequented route up the mountain , is a very traditional climb , the kind of route that it 's easy to imagine Victorians accompanied by their Swiss guides tackling : balancing along the snow arête , confronting the Grand Gendarme and cutting steps up the steep summit ridge . |
| 6 | There 's an element of hope but it 's hard to find . |
| 7 | There 's an element of hope but it 's hard to find . |
| 8 | The Northern Ireland Chamber of Commerce has stated that it ’ supports the privatisation of NIE because it is convinced that the introduction of private sector business disciplines will ultimately produce a more efficient industry . ’ |
| 9 | A great deal could be written on the contrast between Chaucer and Gower reflected here : one might note , for instance , that incest plays a relatively small part in the tale of Appollonius , and that it is hardly condoned in the Canace and Machaire story of Gower although it is romantically treated in a tragic and sympathetic manner . |
| 10 | And I said well you 'll have an interest to keep it clean I mean I 'm sure you just do it out of necessity when it 's not your furniture . |
| 11 | The remains of these edifices in Italy , France , Germany , Spain , Yugoslavia , Greece , Rumania and Asia Minor give us a clear idea of their way of life as well as their modes of building and it is a much more complete picture than that which we have from the Greek civilisation because of its very complexity and variety . |
| 12 | I know in advance that we 're not going to have that kind of luck but it 's worth a try . |
| 13 | I 've done some checking around and have found out that it is n't just pubescent , pizza-faced boys who have made the magazine the best-selling pile of shite that it is . |
| 14 | The staff who work in the reservation section have a great deal of responsibility and it is their task to see that all reservations are dealt with promptly and efficiently . |
| 15 | Clearly , we have plenty of powder and it 's dry . |
| 16 | At no time did the defendants tell the plaintiff of Mr. Perot 's proposed purchase of Vertigo and it is this fact which has given rise to the present litigation . |
| 17 | Erm , Chair , this is the Joint Staffing Watch for September ninety-three , and its mandatory on the County Council , that it 's presented to the committee , er , within a period of preparation as it is issued to the media . |
| 18 | The experience of faith as it is lived by another people , another culture ; the enjoyment of celebrating fiestas ( and that includes the liturgy and the party afterwards ) with the people ; the experience of living amongst a people who never give up the struggle whatever happens and so challenge my own pettiness ; the graciousness of so many of them and the great welcome they gave us . |
| 19 | People coming in from outside will bring in dirt and dust and damp as a matter of course so it 's advisable to have both an outer and inner door mat . |
| 20 | Erm and you realize of course that it 's self employed commission only hence the need for the car . |
| 21 | Boris Becker recently expressed the view that there was too much money in tennis and that it was ruining the game — a view of course that it is much easier to make objectively once you have £5m in the bank . |
| 22 | The reality of life is of course that it is the bad news man who should be the most prized . |
| 23 | In the example quoted , the first line leaves unstated the place to which Israel is to return ; the B-line specifies the full significance of " return " in A. It is true of course that it is not only that the B-line is more specific than the A-line but also that the A is more specific than the B. Such cases do not negate the parallelism of greater precision ; they are a subset of the examples of our feature . |
| 24 | ‘ The first sign of madness , ’ joke people who have been caught talking to themselves , confident of course that it is not . |
| 25 | But a lot of people would say of course that it is of such importance , that we really ought to be up to date with exactly what 's going on , after all this is happening on our behalf . |
| 26 | Erm there 'll be seven lectures on this subject and that 's a fair number of course but it 's not enough to cover the full range of things that I 'd want normally to talk to you about and so what I 'm going to do is to aim to introduce you to some of the central concepts of foreign policy , of ways of analysing it , of the models that are used , the ideas erm er surrounding foreign policy and also to illustrate these with examples . |
| 27 | erm and what makes me suspect not is that Chine Chinese record keeping for many many centuries had been very thorough of course because it 's the basis of the imperial taxation system , so my guess is that the figures are probably fairly reliable . |
| 28 | There are going to be one or two occasions of course when it is likely |
| 29 | Of course if it 's that modern , bright , electro-acoustic sound you 're after ( Extreme , Bon Jovi etc. ) , then this guitar is it . |
| 30 | And of course if it 's a husband and wife , the two of you together should be thinking of this sort of information because you can do something about it in your will . |