Example sentences of "is [adj] [coord] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right now the gossip in the town is that Ingrid is pregnant and it looks as though Olive King is about to become a star … about time too ! |
| 2 | It is eternal and it illuminates despair . |
| 3 | A copy of the 1991 Census datasets will be deposited at the ESRC Data Archive ( where it will join the data from previous Censuses ) when the data is complete and it appears that all corrections have been made . |
| 4 | Secondly , as mentioned before , Hindu society is patrilineal and it follows a rigid system of caste distinction . |
| 5 | If it is pushed at the wrong point of the swinging cycle , the motion is upset and it tends to stop . |
| 6 | His output is prodigious and it springs from the unbending control he exercises over every aspect of his life . |
| 7 | The Commission is multi-disciplinary and it exists to provide independent medical opinions to consent to treatment ; to keep the powers of detention under review ; to prepare a Code of Practice ; and to visit and interview detained patients and investigate individual complaints . |
| 8 | It has beautiful purple and green plumage , but its voice is strident and it threshes its wings frantically overhead when in the presence of any other murder victim , crying ‘ Ishkoonee ! ’ |
| 9 | The searcher may go astray because either some supposed fact is wrong or it applies modus ponens in an irrelevant way , but it will never arrive at any result which is not a strict consequence of its start state . |
| 10 | ‘ But the language of our Parliament is English and it seems only right that any hospitality I give should be in English too . ’ |
| 11 | The method is simple and it relies on the duck 's instinct to try to chase away a threatening fox . |
| 12 | The key issue is straightforward and it arises from a simple fact . |
| 13 | This cultivated form of love is universal and is magnanimous and it conquers all : ‘ If when another says , ‘ I can not love you any longer , ' ’ one proudly answers , ‘ Then I can also get along without loving you . ' ’ |
| 14 | The the fire service is separate but it reports to the public protection committee . |
| 15 | A geographical area to work in if that is appropriate and it does not interfere with existing house-to-house and street collections . |
| 16 | oh the cupboards are brilliant it 's just the fronts are so dated and the man in these reports in the house said erm , kitchen is satisfactory but it needs updating and it was only about seven years ago it was brand new , no , not seven , have we been in then , no eight , so nine or something , I know the fronts need sorting out . |
| 17 | Using a mouse is optional but it does make the game more playable . |
| 18 | Using a mouse is optional but it does make the game more playable . |
| 19 | ‘ It is fatuous but it sells , ’ he said and put it away . |
| 20 | In the eyes of the Department of Energy , wave power on a large scale is uneconomical and it ceased to fund such projects following reviews in 1983 and 1985 . |
| 21 | Competition is cut-throat and it seems some of the designers have been taking some dodgy tabs ( or suffering from over-worked stress syndrome ) , as the high-top becomes more and more ridiculous . |
| 22 | The neck is dirty and the thing is white and it looks , and it 's so , the neck is dirty of the top , of the |
| 23 | Much of this is welcome but it has to be looked at critically when public expenditure cuts dominate the policy discussions . |
| 24 | As the material is synthetic , use a matching thread — 50 denier is ideal and it comes in many colours , although strangely very few kite-makers seem to want other than black . |
| 25 | But you know it surprises me I mean I know the church is , is closed and it 's been closed for a couple of years now and it looks a sight because now I do n't know how many members they 've got , at least a couple of them could go in there and cut all the brambles down . |
| 26 | To have self-confidence is great and it helps when you apply for a new job , but to eat up your seed corn because you 're sure all will turn out for the best is foolhardy . |
| 27 | This is tedious but it does provide an absolute calibration on which other devices can be based . |
| 28 | The language of a classical play is challenging but it does give the student chance to see how early voice training can be used with a very demanding text . |
| 29 | It is useful but it invites scepticism . |
| 30 | Freezing , something when er a liquid is freezing and it changes when it is you know changes in the physical sense of the |