Example sentences of "it [is] [adv] [vb base] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Down here it 's strictly hardcore and , as EPMD say , you can keep the crossover : local heroes Das EFX have , along with dancehall reggae , done much to take hip hop back underground . |
| 2 | For me it 's just feel and the longer I stay out on the range , the more damage I do ! |
| 3 | It 's also proof that quality attracts loyalty , said a spokesman . |
| 4 | It 's little wonder that the naturally shy Morrissey often seeks to retreat . |
| 5 | Gerald has been known to coin such memorable one-liners as the following : ‘ If the joy of the Lord is our strength , it 's little wonder that the church in Britain has been so weak and ineffective ’ ; ‘ There 's no virtue in being ten or twenty years behind the times ’ ; ‘ Most Christians are nicer than God himself ’ ; ‘ It is the unshared areas of our lives where Jesus is not Lord ’ ; ‘ One of the reasons the church in Britain has failed to grow is quite simply because it is full of people who are extremely rude ’ ; ‘ Putting the life of God into institutional Christianity is rather like putting the life of a human being into a kangaroo … . ’ 'You are only a leader if someone 's following you' ( Gerald Quotes ) . |
| 6 | It 's little wonder that this month Patrick Eggle guitars occupy two of the top ten slots in the British guitar sales league . |
| 7 | Add to that the dreadfully long hours that doctors and nurses have to work — sometimes 16-18 hour shifts — and it 's little wonder that mistakes are made . |
| 8 | It 's little wonder that the fax machine is so popular and that dial-up E-mail is such a rare species . |
| 9 | But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it 's no go if your personality is n't worth translating . |
| 10 | It 's like try and sit down and work out |
| 11 | See so it 's just by learning the pattern it 's like say if you were you were playing football every time somebody every time the ball came towards you you had to learn all about the way the ball goes Oh it 's you know it 's slowing down cos the grass is wet and it 's curling and things like that . |
| 12 | and things like that and it only , it 's only become and really it 's only actually set up as a business school quite recently as well , I mean what in the past ten years or something |
| 13 | It is optimistically forecast that women will become freer from household burdens as a result of these technological innovations . |
| 14 | It is simply demand and supply pressures which determine the appropriate exchange rate for each currency . |
| 15 | It is either pride or obstinacy , but she is determined to pay her way and I 'm not allowed to help her out . |
| 16 | In Green terms , it is neither use nor ornament . |
| 17 | it is neither comfort nor vicissitude . ’ |
| 18 | Given the prevalence of graphical presentation , it is surely time that the ASB addressed this issue . |
| 19 | And it is surely time that the relatively under-resourced areas of England had a fairer allocation of resources to help fight their manifestly worse health and survival chances . |
| 20 | It is surely time that the old style of letter , ‘ Your patient is doing well and should continue on the same treatment , ’ was consigned to the history books . |
| 21 | It is surely time that students , as adults in part responsible for their own higher education , were formally accorded the rights and academic respect they deserve , and the social relations between teacher and taught were made more equal . |
| 22 | It is surely time that this process was reversed : cheap capital should be allowed to lead to higher productivity , which in its turn should push a liberated sterling upwards . |
| 23 | It is probably time that this was reconsidered ; in secondary schools it has led to absurdities like the daily dose , the thirty-five minute lesson , and the conviction that , though all subjects are theoretically equal ( hence the standard four period per week allocation ) some ( English and maths ) are more equal than others , and need a longer allocation . |
| 24 | ‘ It is not just statistics that are involved , it is also research and information generally , ’ he said . |
| 25 | It is indeed time that the functions of both English and American literature were taken over by younger and better men . |
| 26 | It is mainly rot or insect attack which affects the serviceability of timber structures . |
| 27 | Now Charles , the 9th Earl , inherits a sound historic property — some would say it is too spick and span with Raine 's bright colour schemes and shining new curtains — at the top of the stately home league with between 40,000 and 50,000 visitors a year . |