Example sentences of "[conj] it [be] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it is his statutory duty to protect the Welsh environment , he simply referred the matter to the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 2 | They call it survival of the fittest , although it 's their own survival they are now worried about . |
| 3 | They call it survival of the fittest , although it 's their own survival they are now worried about . |
| 4 | Eager to see Bella , she had got up as soon as she was awake , although it was her usual habit to lie , for twenty minutes or so , drowsy , cocooned in her warm bed , entertaining herself with fantasies . |
| 5 | Although it was her first furlough she was using it to study for her Master 's Degree at Sidney University . |
| 6 | We then voted on a lengthy Liberal resolution er , it was amended by Labour we voted on all of the separate points in the resolution , all were agreed and then Professor decided that he wanted to move a further amendment which after some consultation , some discussion with the legal people about it 's validity , he did which wiped out all of the things that we 'd just agreed and we turned to the original Conservative motion minus the beginning phrase and with a couple of things stuck on at the end and we thought well that 's it the Conservatives will vote for that , but no although it was their own motion in all but name , the Conservatives would n't vote for that unless Mr was allowed to move it . |
| 7 | Now the poor are made to feel ashamed , that it 's their own fault , some shortcoming which they have . |
| 8 | And the maddening part of it is that it 's my own fault . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , ’ argues Paul , ‘ you have to remember that it 's our first album and it 's , like , our album for the world . |
| 10 | Because I do n't mind if Karen writes and bloody blames us that it 's our bloody fault , I 'm not bothered . |
| 11 | Feminists argue that it 's our male-dominated society that requires women to lose weight . |
| 12 | In this country , it is often assumed that teachers are a law unto themselves once they are inside the classroom and that it is their professional training and sense of professional responsibility that are the chief influences on their practice . |
| 13 | The girls insist that it is their fundamental right to wear their scarves at all times , just as some of their fellow students wear skullcaps or the cross . |
| 14 | They will inevitably feel that it is their own fault — that they are in some way ‘ bad ’ or deserving of such treatment . |
| 15 | I shall argue that it is their particular use of rhetoric that permits this . |
| 16 | Nevertheless we shall see that it is even more obviously true of Attica than of Sparta that it is her physical environment which determines her history . |
| 17 | She is the daughter of an English mother and a Pakistani father , who says that it is her Asian looks which are her greatest asset . |
| 18 | I doubt that it is his real name . ’ |
| 19 | But when he finds there the charming young cabaret singer , Lola , he decides that it is his moral duty to save her … by marriage ! |
| 20 | Of course the sceptics and the doubters will sneer at the influence on the affair exercised by Dicky saying that the former route was unsuitable and geographically unstable , and they will point out that such conditions have been overcome in other parts , for example , the West Highland , the Liverpool and Manchester and the Settle and Carlisle , but then those conversant with Dicky o' Tunstead will continue to believe that it is his malign influence which kept the rails away from Tunstead Farm . |
| 21 | For a split second , I have sometimes failed to recognize that it is my own face that is being reflected back at me . |
| 22 | Will he confirm that it is our top priority to get back to the basics in education and to sweep away the leftist progressive teaching methods that , having been put to the test , have failed ? |
| 23 | The incarnational model of Mary and Jesus stresses that it is our very weakness which may become a tool for the Kingdom . |
| 24 | I agree with the statement but I am not sure that it is our particular job to convey this message . |
| 25 | A second difficulty with this most obvious method of testing is that , even if a preponderance of Protestants were to emerge , it would not follow that it was their religious convictions that supplied the motivation for their science . |
| 26 | Would the rest of Britain simply accept that it was their democratic right to self-determination that was being exercised ? |
| 27 | While Billy was at the bar ordering another round , Yanto told the girls about the motorbike and explained that it was their first outing on the machine . |
| 28 | I used to tell trainees that it was their first aptitude test to see if they could make it over Stamford Street ! ’ was not too upset to find that she will have to devise a new aptitude test from the summer . |
| 29 | The Times recorded that this was their sixth partnership of over 150 ; the Telegraph that it was their seventh century stand ; while the Guardian made it the eighth . |
| 30 | The children learned from the example of adults that it was their supreme duty to protect the Royal Family from the degradation of other people 's curiosity . |