Example sentences of "it is [noun sg] [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 | It is literature within the last three centuries , then , that provides the main choices for a reader . |
| 5 | It is revolution like no other before . |
| 6 | ‘ The only way to deal with it is lie in the dark and stay absolutely quiet , ’ he said firmly . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | After the cold wash , it is breakfast of gruel swill and a cup of hot water . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Even if none of it is proof of anything , yet you may see something there that I have not seen . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The rest of it is cream on the cake . ’ |
| 15 | Some argue that while this may be desirable , it is not possible ; it is pie in the sky , since it ignores reality . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ’ ? |
| 18 | It is history from one point of view , history with an aim . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | So it is bread on both rods , except that I make a paste for the free-line rod so that I am still offering a bait on a weightless rig . |
| 21 | " It is harde to be expected " , wrote one newsletter writer , " with what great joy and satisfaction his majesties have been proclaimed in most of the Citties " , whilst the Earl of Peterborough thought that never had a King been " proclaimed with more applause than he that raignes under the name of James the Second " . |
| 22 | We promised you more of that Hudson Hawk map , and here it is courtesy of David Pitchforth . |
| 23 | Indeed , in some local areas , hospital provision was so low that ‘ it is doubtful whether some … can be considered to be offering a comprehensive service , ’ and for most people , most of the time , it is provision at the local rather than the regional level which really matters . |
| 24 | Having turned towards your track at a certain angle , you now wait for your RC to move to a bearing where it is displace from 0° ( station ahead ) or from 180° ( station astern ) the same number of degrees that you are using for your interception angle . |
| 25 | They went for him then , Alexander and Donald McLaggan , the Duke 's two sons , dragged him from his father 's side so that his head bounced on the steps , lifted him bleeding , like foresters keeping a dying deer clear of the hounds , and started to carry him down to the river ‘ just to cool him off ’ but Cameron ran and gripped Donald 's shoulder and shouted , ‘ If you injure an officer it is treason on top of sedition , ’ so they carried him back and laid him carefully at his father 's feet . |
| 26 | It is algebra for today 's lesson , my worst topic in maths . |
| 27 | The bit where he like jumping on the lake they 've cut away a bit of the platform so the only way you can do it is jump onto this bit of wood then fly , and literally he was like that , just going in mid air and landed right in the water ! |
| 28 | ‘ I think it is discrimination against the Scots and should not be allowed in this day and age . ’ |
| 29 | But it is entertainment with a serious intent . |
| 30 | I should leave , but it is entertainment of sorts , and hugely funny . |