Example sentences of "is what it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | The novel ( or so I hope ) signals a separation between author and narrator with its very first sentence : ‘ The World is what it is ; men who are nothing , who allow themselves to become nothing , have no place in it . ’ |
| 2 | But what if the motorless machine is what it is all about ? |
| 3 | It was , he decided , Emersonianism — a disease ( if that is what it is ) which is certainly no less rife now than it was when Winters made his diagnosis fifty years ago . |
| 4 | Which is what it is . |
| 5 | And although his glitzy Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove , California , is not everybody 's idea of a parish church , in its own way that is what it is . |
| 6 | The third Marquis of Salisbury was a devout Christian , but his daughter Gwendolen once heard him say , ‘ God is all-powerful , and God is all-loving- and the world is what it is ! |
| 7 | In other respects , however , the new beginning , the new creation , for that is what it is , seems bright enough . |
| 8 | Thus to a large extent a horse is what it is through the formation of many habits . |
| 9 | At the time of the cash call the group promised shareholders unchanged dividends totalling 6p for the year , and that is what it is they are getting , the final of 3¾p payable on July 1 . |
| 10 | Moderation is fine , if that is what it is and what It remains . |
| 11 | ‘ This is what it is all about really ’ , said one of the clowns , handing me a bun just before he dashed across to the pub car park where they all lined up in order to be judged which of them was the best-dressed ( he was , incidentally ) . |
| 12 | This is what we are seeking to do , taking our place in that gap , introducing folk to Jesus , because at the end of the day , this is what it is all about . |
| 13 | In reality Cardiff Arms Park is one of the top three sporting venues in the UK — a super place to watch sport — and sport is what it is . |
| 14 | The nuclear arms race , and East-West conflict , is seen as inevitable given that human nature is what it is ( namely competitive , aggressive , and combative ) and the consequent pessimism shared by a large proportion of Western Europe 's population concerning the possibility of nuclear war is again expressed in such terms . |
| 15 | It is what it is , it 's just another record that happens to have the same people on it as ‘ Harvest ’ … |
| 16 | In a way , that is what it is . |
| 17 | On October 4th this year this little railway , for that is what it is being only two foot wide and 500 yards long , carried no fewer than 800 people in five hours . |
| 18 | An escapade or two can help to teach what the world is like , and even why it is what it is ; but novels in this age-old tradition of English fiction , though often radical , are in no way revolutionary . |
| 19 | The world is what it is , and will remain so ; and you learn to live within it by adjusting yourself rather than it . |
| 20 | If WEU has a role to play in integration , that kind of defence collaboration is what it is peculiarly able to do . |
| 21 | The study of human nature is , in good part , the study of human conventions , and that is what it is from the strictest ethological point of view . |
| 22 | However , Marx might argue that because the character of societies is what it is , the demand is not superfluous in the case of social theory , but is a particularly pertinent one . |
| 23 | It 's a total balls-up is what it is . ’ |
| 24 | Rather it is a spiritual ( as well as physical ) unity which simply is what it is , and in which human beings exist as what they are , without itself having a point beyond itself or the things within it having a point beyond themselves . |
| 25 | It 's trendy 'n' neat and comes complete with the bestest games that you 'll ever meet ; A stylish cassette box is what it is , and it 's yours for nuffin when you subscribe to this ! |
| 26 | As the Home Secretary Ritchie put it in 1901 , ‘ To get rid of prostitution by legal enactment or by official interposition is out of the question — so long as human nature is what it is you will never entirely get rid of it … ’ , and measures such as the Vagrancy Act , 1824 , and the Metropolitan Police Act of 1839 were designed to regulate public nuisance rather than prostitution itself . |
| 27 | Clarified in fact is what it is , or should be , that butter . |
| 28 | Be tolerant , therefore , of learners who spell in non-standard ways because the local pronunciation is what it is . |
| 29 | The consciousness of a bat is what it is like to be a bat , that way of being . |
| 30 | There is the dispositional fact that I believe my name is what it is , which is a fact about me when I am not thinking of my name . |