Example sentences of "it is [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is dusk on a small cay in the Bahamas . |
| 2 | It is dusk by the time the wild elephants reach the funnel and now the noise of the beaters behind them is so loud that they simply keep going — into the khedda . |
| 3 | For the Wallabies it is case of ‘ two down and four to go ’ — three tests against New Zealand and one against South Africa . |
| 4 | But it is stars of the theatrical and cinematic world — or certainly the matinee idols of that world — who still regard the term with such anxiety . |
| 5 | It is literature within the last three centuries , then , that provides the main choices for a reader . |
| 6 | Its peculiar feature is that the main raw material , pig bristle , is bought from a monopoly supplier , China , and it is imports of Chinese paint brushes that have quadrupled within the last three years . |
| 7 | It is revolution like no other before . |
| 8 | ‘ The only way to deal with it is lie in the dark and stay absolutely quiet , ’ he said firmly . |
| 9 | The promotion race in the first division and coming up tomorrow at the County Ground , it is Swindon against Tranmere Rovers . |
| 10 | Tonight , it is Swindon against Southend . |
| 11 | Tonight it is Swindon against Bristol City at the County Ground . |
| 12 | For a single claimant in the age bracket 18 to 24 , it is £1,619.80 in income support per year , plus £1,560 for full housing benefit . |
| 13 | I enjoyed ‘ Futility ’ very much as it is poem with a message for all people and like most of Wilfred Owen 's poems it is timeless and has a meaning not only for the first World War but for wars to come . |
| 14 | I have been acquainted somewhat with men and books , and have long experience in learning , and in the world : there is no book like the Bible for excellent learning , wisdom , and use ; and it is want of understanding in them that think or speak otherwise . |
| 15 | Poulantzas goes on to say that it is ignorance of these writers , and the provincialism of the French intellectual arena , ‘ which allows these most hackneyed of ideas to be presented as something new . ’ |
| 16 | After the cold wash , it is breakfast of gruel swill and a cup of hot water . |
| 17 | It is Maggie for Crilly . |
| 18 | It annoys old ladies in Brighton , but it is proof of their essential good sense … families are impoverished but the family system has not broken up . |
| 19 | Even if none of it is proof of anything , yet you may see something there that I have not seen . |
| 20 | But , having it , it is a fact of grammar ( in Wittgenstein 's sense ) that it is afternoon at a place on the Earth when at that place the Sun is past the zenith but not yet over the horizon . |
| 21 | " This is not , as Saddam Hussein would have it , the United States against Iraq , " said Bush , " it is Iraq against the world . " |
| 22 | The rest of it is cream on the cake . ’ |
| 23 | It is horses for courses . |
| 24 | Some argue that while this may be desirable , it is not possible ; it is pie in the sky , since it ignores reality . |
| 25 | Although modern haymaking involves expensive , sophisticated machinery , it is still possible for a smallholder to make and store excellent hay with very modest tackle , and it is hay on which he is most likely to depend for the bulk of his winter keep . |
| 26 | It is cases like Byrd , Utley and Toon which are the chief cause for concern . |
| 27 | But what is one to make of a solemn pronouncement in a Companies Act that ‘ an insurance company which contravenes a restriction to which it is subject by virtue of subsections ( 1 ) or ( 2 ) above shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years ’ ? |
| 28 | It is history from one point of view , history with an aim . |
| 29 | Barley is exceedingly delicate in his treatment of the great Bung Karno , the man who once stated , to wild applause from an audience of Indonesian economists , that ‘ Inflation can be good — as long as it is inflation for the Indonesian revolution ’ . |
| 30 | That I support the addition that that we that we should get on with it as quickly as possible and I suppose also that I regret the support that the request for an extra thirty seven thousand or whatever it is pounds in order to enable that to be carried out . |