Example sentences of "[be] it [det] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And is it that sublime confidence in yourself that prevents you from marrying her ? |
| 2 | Is it that silly cow in the office ? |
| 3 | Why is it that clinical usefulness of colonic pressure measurements remains elusive ? |
| 4 | Is this approach justified on the available evidence , or is it another premature presupposition without a true basis ? |
| 5 | How was it that secondary education for all , the organising impulse behind the 1944 Act , should have been interpreted in so restricted a way ? |
| 6 | Item — Did Alexander III die on Kinghorn Ness or was it some cunning stratagem of the King ? |
| 7 | Was it some supernatural sentinel of the Scarabae ? |
| 8 | A man of immense physical vigour , intellectual confidence and moral force , as naturally extrovert as was Paul painfully introvert , his decisive experience was not that of the Council ( which he did attend ) , nor of the Western Christian 's attempt to reshape the gospel when faced with the blandishments of agnostic affluence , still less was it any deep experience of the struggles of the third world ; instead , it was that of the Church 's singularly successful , no-nonsense resistance to communism in Poland : a combination of old-fashioned pieties , unquestioned doctrinal certainties , down-to-earth preoccupation with basic human rights , and a dose of sheer populism . |