Example sentences of "[pron] it is [that] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , in the following , he can naturally be interpreted as referring to whoever it is that John refers to : ( 39 ) John came in and he lit a fire We will return to anaphora , but just note here that it is perfectly possible , as Lyons ( 1977a : 676 ) points out , for a deictic term to be used both anaphorically and deictically . |
| 2 | I shall begin , then , by trying to set out what it is that theists believe in and atheists do n't . |
| 3 | Some use will be made of notions of risk , danger and pollution to analyse what it is that people find attractive or unattractive about such different environments . |
| 4 | And Masklin … no one knows exactly what it is that Masklin wants , except that it s very big . |
| 5 | The first thing to notice about functionalism is that it does not fare any better than behaviourism in providing an account of what it is that V knows and BS does not , for BS could know all about V 's functional or covertly behavioural states ; so there is no lack of knowledge that his deficit could consist in . |
| 6 | God has made everybody good at different things , so try to discover what it is that God has given you the ability to do , and try to do it as well as possible . |