Example sentences of "it is [prep] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 It comes in the evening after a busy day and tells me that it is past my bed-time .
2 So it is with me , stuck with gloves and stick as soon as I step out of the front door .
3 At least that 's the way it is with me , if I can see something in operation I can understand it far more quickly than when someone tries to describe it ’
4 ‘ You know the way it is with me .
5 ‘ I do n't know what it is with me and my left foot …
6 I 've smoked for over fifteen years , and it has become , it 's something to do with my hands and I think that 's what it is with me .
7 I know it is with me , er , with Dad 's Army , so er , if they 're getting huge ratings with those repeats , well , they 're obviously gon na put them on are n't they ?
8 I fear much evil while it is with me .
9 all it is with me
10 Since art critics have these working assumptions in mind , and it is with their writing we shall be mainly concerned , we need to proceed without being distracted .
11 The obscure circumstances of the collapse of the old culture involved invasion , or infiltration , by further Greek-speaking tribes ; and it is with their assimilation that the new world begins .
12 The first is how much at variance it is with what actually a conservative government seems to expect .
13 It is with what is called new age travellers . ’
14 So it is with everyone who is born of the spirit .
15 He it is with whom his people will indeed wrestle .
16 When I hate doing it is with my own records ; I 've just heard it in my head for so long .
17 No , she said she gets arthritis in hers and I expect that 's what it is with mine .
18 All living beings are linked at a mind level and all behaviour is an utterance , an ‘ outer-ance ’ , an expression of the creature 's inner being , just as it is with ourselves .
19 And no doubt , the shape of a banana is linked in a chimp 's mind with its pleasurable flavour , as it is with ourselves .
20 Soft flabby growth in plants is as much at risk to disease attack and structural collapse as it is with ourselves and other animals .
21 Quirinus is lord there and he knows me , for it is with he and his Myrcans that I took up service over a year ago .
22 He was a renowned preacher , a pioneer critic of the New Testament , one of the founding fathers of the discipline of hermeneutics ( the philosophy or science of interpretation ) ; but it is with his fundamental work on the nature and basis of theology itself that we must deal .
23 Around 1204 , however , the two quarrelled and Eustace became a fugitive : it is with his adventures in the next year or so that the biography , composed between 1223 and 1284 by an unknown poet from Picardy , is principally concerned .
24 The preoccupation with the establishment and maintenance of civilisation and true religion is a central feature of Spenser 's poem as it is with his political tract .
25 it is with me spin dryer
26 Throughout the philosophy of mind and certainly amongst both lay and professional psychologists there is the view that basically two kinds of fact exist : physical facts about the brain and the external world , on the one hand , and facts ‘ about how it is with us ’ , on the other .
27 So it is with us , Master Corbett .
28 ‘ Because that 's the way it is with us , ’ he returned with the faintest of smiles .
29 he used an illustration of the pig , you know you can polish the pig up , you can clean it , you can scrub it , you can oh de cologne it , you can do all sorts of things with it , you can tie a nice pink ribbon around it and you can put it in a palace , but it 's still a pig and it lives like a pig and you can cl and no matter how clean you 've made it , it 'll soon find some dirt to wallow in and the ribbon might make it look nice in the show ground but it does n't make any difference to its nature and so it is with us and so Jesus did n't start on the outside , but he starts at the inside he deals with the route of the problem , in One Corinthians chapter fifteen and in verse three it says for I deliver to you as a first importance , this is the basic thing , he says to them this was the first thing that I said to you because it was the most important that Christ died for our sins , according to the scripture , what ever else Christ gives to us , what ever else he does for us , what ever else the gospel produces , the basic , the most important , the fundamental thing is that Christ died for our sins .
30 Actually , providing your timing is reasonable , this is not too dangerous , because you will be interrupting the attacking technique close to its source , when it is at its weakest .
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