Example sentences of "[conj] it is [det] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If it is such a failure , why have we committed £183 million ? |
| 5 | When they er put the new pump in , but it is such a nuisance . |
| 6 | Sometimes you are fierce and angry but it is all a cover for the soft innocence inside you . |
| 7 | But it is all a matter of language . |
| 8 | Fields get smaller and birch tree scrub predominates but it is all a Garden of Eden by Lewis standards . |
| 9 | I love it because it means I get to lots of other countries and see different people and different cultures , and I hate it because it is such a hassle and keeps me away from my family and friends . |
| 10 | ‘ Children sweeten labours , ’ he wrote ; and I suppose that is true , when it is all a labour of love . |