Example sentences of "it is [noun] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ If it is defenders we need , who will lead until we can join them ? ’
2 ‘ Liam Devlin , if it is Devlin they choose , is hardly going to parachute into the courtyard at St Mary 's Priory tomorrow night , Jack , and if he did , so what ?
3 Or perhaps it is Claudine you do not like ? ’
4 What happened here was apparently an attempt to change strokes into dots ; and it is dots he wrote for the immediate repeat of the theme .
5 But because it is Kiev it looks as if many truths , many pasts , will continue to co-exist there side by side .
6 It is Burun I do not trust . ’
7 And it is Britain she thanks for the startling transformation and thinks will keep her at the top .
8 Yes , but it is God we obey , not nature !
9 Perhaps it is time we had a choice between parties which agree that liberal free-market economics are here to stay .
10 It is time we had our own national identity , ’ he said in Sydney .
11 Does he agree that it is time we had a real clampdown on the possession of firearms throughout society , remembering that the problem will not be cured unless the Home Office takes strenuous action in relation to the legal as well as the illegal holding of firearms ?
12 It is time we looked at her in more detail .
13 It is time we took up the second of my headings , language as screen .
14 It is time we utilised all these advantages to far better economic effect .
15 It is time we put our minds to redressing the balance , to putting pedestrians back where they belong , at the centre of the transport system ’ .
16 I think it is time we listened to our new brother .
17 It is time we take an honest look at what we do , how we do it and who we do it with , and learn to minimise the risks we take .
18 It is time we applied the same reasoning to all .
19 It is time we moved for concerted action to liberate the press from these laws . ’
20 I do that it is time we updated the white paper .
21 Piecemeal solutions are not enough in education , and it is time we recognized this .
22 It is time we voted for ourselves for a change .
23 It is time we acted , not on the basis of hysteria , but on the basis of these and other related findings .
24 Perhaps it is time we placed less emphasis on our role as individual therapists teaching specialist skills , and moved towards the position of educators and organizers of self-help services .
25 It is time we gave up these reservations in work organizations .
26 ‘ Perhaps it is time we discussed the rules that will govern the unfortunate time we spend together until I return you to Milano tomorrow . ’
27 It is time we rejoin Iain and get going .
28 It is time we invested seriously in education and training and stopped letting this misery grow worse and worse . ’
29 ‘ I seriously consider it is time we undertook a job inspection of Her Majesty as an employer , ’ he added .
30 Surely it is time we stopped talking of elephants as if they were a commodity to be traded , like so many cans of paint , and accept them for what they are , ancient and splendid fellow inhabitants of the earth who share with us the joys of close kinship bonds and grieve when they are severed .
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