Example sentences of "it [is] [conj] [art] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ What angers me about the system goes beyond the unreliability of ‘ proof ’ … it 's that the way criminals are dealt with has nothing to do with rehabilitation and readjusting people who 've stepped outside society 's norms .
2 It 's that the class antipathies of black American culture the ‘ rap gap ’ have grown too wide for any one person , star or politician , to bridge .
3 If I have a gripe with Hartke , it 's that the reproduction is just a little too clear ; missed , fluffed and dissonant notes are all too easily discernible .
4 These days the deal is often struck at the time of divorce ; and usually it 's that the house goes to your wife , for good .
5 People walking in but we need to need to clearly define the areas and if it 's that the national account department at has this list of corporate clients then maybe it makes sense that the national account manager responsible for deals with those also
6 I think I 'll have to get a new curtain rail it 's that the plastic snapped been on the curtain ring
7 I 've heard you selling the guy that showed you these two manifestos one by the Tories and one by the Labour and the one that stuck in my mind it 's that the Labour Party will have a minimum wage to comply with the rest of Europe .
8 If you 're at all interested in that area then I have got you a reference I can give you to hand but it 's but a great deal of er architecture , certainly the thirties , forties , fifties reflected corporate status , corporate identity .
9 It 's after the consultation has taken place that we will make a decision , and we will be listening during that consultation to what all the people of Chipping Norton say .
10 It 's whether the opportunity arises .
11 It 's it 's not the boundary that is important to look at , it 's whether the land is open land , is n't it ?
12 It 's whether the land fulfils a greenbelt function .
13 So they wo n't do that , and of course it 's and the main thing that costs is the transport is every time you go on a bus you 're down to whatever it is two hundred pounds , and because of the two areas that we use , I mean we 're not gon na , I mean I do n't really know
14 it 's it 's till a pentagon is n't it ?
15 Well it 's cos the lady owner cos they keep ja , jamming the gears and everything !
16 Whether it 's cos the wind was blowing that way I du n no .
17 And we went all round the bed and we went all round outside , we went all through the back smelt outside Jane 's door in case she 'd she were on fire could n't find nothing , sat down and read , he said it 's cos the telly 's on and I expect it 's damp and it 's you know
18 It 's cos the volume 's up on ten .
19 It 's as the sun hits it this side .
20 I mean , nobody 's there to back you up , if you need a , if you need any assistance , or it 's or the company 's not really bona fide then you 've got no comeback .
21 Well it 's If the police are doing the prosecuting then you may
22 of course that is a point that we 've made all the way through , it 's not if nobody would bid , it 's if the franchising director was not satisfied with the quality or the long term viability of the bids he 'd received
23 Well if it 's , if it 's if the weather 's not very good I 'll meet you in the car , but if it 's a nice day I , I 'd much rather walk to meet you .
24 If I again mention Mason 's Lighthouses — in its way a score of not dissimilar scope and fascination , written only a year later by a composer a generation younger — it 's because a comparison ( which Collins Classics has now made possible ) of these two pieces helps to highlight the individual nature of Birtwistle 's achievement .
25 Maybe he 's annoyed because he ca n't quite figure what all this has to do with what the programme describes as ‘ the cyberspace experience ’ , maybe it 's because a minute ago he was nearly run over by a 30-foot-high mutoid metal minotaur , but he looks about ready to chin someone .
26 It 's because a there 's summat .
27 But it is n't because of some secret triumph of racism it 's because the claim he 's making has been emptied of meaning .
28 ACCORDING to one customer of Barclays Bank in Guildford , managers have been following freezing clients around with fan heaters , explaining : ‘ It 's because the heating is controlled by a central computer . ’
29 And they reckon it 's because the train drivers are in league with the robbers .
30 Perhaps it 's because the sport seems ironically so urban that I find it less than thrilling .
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