Example sentences of "and it is [det] " in BNC.

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1 In fact , the United Kingdom has never had , in the course of this century , a simple two-party system and it is many years since the party eventually forming government secured a majority of primary votes cast , let alone the votes of a majority of electors .
2 Doubt is a state of mind in suspension between faith and unbelief so that it is neither of them wholly and it is each only partly .
3 How good of you to do all that work — and it is such hard work !
4 But this does not diminish the British obligation to our co-signatories , and it is such states as Brazil and Venezuela which are pressing Britain to renegotiate over the Falklands , before more bloodshed occurs .
5 Within such an institutional arrangement there is , by implication , little room for alternative practices , including those possibilities opened up by the women 's and gay liberation movements of the period , and it is such an arrangement that constituted , for Gummer , the previously existing moral consensus .
6 Representations of system-sentences may of course be used in metalinguistic discussion of the structure and functions of language : and it is such representations that are customarily cited in grammatical descriptions of particular languages .
7 But there is no doubt that the court has an inherent jurisdiction to strike out any proceeding which is an abuse of its process ; and it is such an abuse to commence and maintain a proceeding which has no prospect whatever of success .
8 It is one of the most ancient of dye plants , its use being recorded 2,500 years ago , and it is such a strong dye that it will produce a deep pink-brown without a mordant — with alum and tin it supplies red and red-brown .
9 Only a conception of the novel as an evolving genre will be able to take the potential of this development into account , and it is such a conception which the Quartet adumbrates .
10 and you find erm people like Lynn you know , bless her , who now , who is n't too bad when she 's not too bad and is n't too good when she 's not too good , you know , and it is such a very very Not only can you not put anything visibly in in common with everyone that 's got it , even the people that have got it ca n't say I can not do this period , they say oh well I 'm not too good now but maybe last week or maybe next week
11 All those wins , plus being top of the US Money List for 133 days — it was a fabulous run and it is all faithfully recorded , providing on second reading a clue as to why Lyle is now having trouble hitting his hat .
12 But he has seen him now — when we did a concert together — and it is all much better . ’
13 ‘ I am afraid to tell you who I am , because if I tell you who I am you may not like who I am and it is all that I have . ’
14 ‘ She came over to America to promote her book pretending to be royal and it is all rubbish .
15 He will be out for three games and it is all so unnecessary , ’ said McCarthy .
16 And it is all bends .
17 Tell people that you are going to meet Linford Christie , and women go coy and men go bawdy , and it is all because of the shorts , the blatant visual précis of the image .
18 I was just going to say that being a photographer , we find that more and more people come with their mothers instead of the fiance whenever they 're going to get married , and it is all the time , the mother has a big say in it you know , instead of the couple .
19 Listen folks , tickets are on sale from ‘ 93 ’ and it is all for 6 quid .
20 For a short time at least you should be able to trace some of his life and it is all there in the Dordogne .
21 It will give Belfast one of the best road and rail infrastructure in Europe — and it is all being done by local know-how .
22 There is a serious question as to how reasonably you should fund the deficit and it is all very well to criticise this suggestion as to how the a gap should filled without making any sensible suggestions of your own and Mr Brown , nice Mr Brown so far
23 Youngsters do wheelies in bikes and cars and it is all very frightening for people in the area . ’
24 INFANTS at Harrowgate Hill School in Darlington are adopting a uniform of hard hats , overalls and wellingtons and it is all because of the pantomime , Peter Pan .
25 There was nothing inevitable or god given about this unequal distribution , and it is that which produced the impersonal free labour market and the exploitation .
26 And it is that uncertainty which limits the value the City can put on Sir Ernest 's other risky ventures , and explains why the share prices do not add up .
27 ‘ Isa has not seen me since the happy news and it is that which restores me to near my old self . ’
28 Kevin Gallacher , Coventry 's leading scorer , could return after a four match absence through injury and it is that department which , according to manager Don Howe , has dragged Coventry into the relegation fray .
29 The individual in whom that spirit lives will be faced with the opportunity to do such wrong and it is that individual who makes the choice and decides which path to follow .
30 Most important is the district council ; for nearly all purposes they are the planning authority and it is that council which issues planning consent .
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