Example sentences of "[vb base] [conj] it [be] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The endoscopy results further suggest that it is the small bowel and not the stomach or duodenum that is the main site of chronic low grade blood loss in patients on long ter , NSAIDs .
2 6 One movement in a single section but in two different versions ( no. 5 ) has a timing , but it is not clear to which version this timing relates ; however , the composer 's autograph direction , ‘ Point viste , mais marque ’ and those given in the Cauvin MS ( Versailles , Bibl. mun. , Ms mus 226 ) and the 1729 edition ( ‘ Rondement et marque ’ ) , together with the stated desire on the first folio to shorten the work , strongly suggest that it is the shorter version of 60 bars to which this timing applies .
3 well , when I say that it 's the best opportunity for peace I 've seen in twenty years .
4 They say that it 's the poor that helps the poor and that 's how I 've found it goes quite honestly .
5 The winter of nineteen forty was extremely bad , in fact most people say that it was the worst winter of the war .
6 We pause on the stairs and although we left of our own accord , pulled our coat from under the couple entwined on the bed , we already sense that it was the wrong decision , that there was a hidden hand pushing us out , wanting to exclude us .
7 Well C's count but it 's the bottom pass .
8 To strengthen your hair prior to a perm and ensure that it is the best possible condition , apply a combination of protein and moisturising treatments .
9 Will my hon. Friend confirm that it was the last Labour Government who introduced a value added tax of 25 per cent .
10 I read — I do not know whether it came from the Department of Energy or from Conservative central office ; I suspect that it was the latter — that privatisation of the coal industry will drive a stake through the heart of Dracula , the leader of the NUM .
11 ‘ Durham County Council and Labour know that it is the best way for children to start their educational life . ’
12 ‘ Durham County Council and Labour know that it is the best way for children to start their educational life , ’ he said .
13 We shall assume not only that the IS-LM model is the correct model but also that agents know that it is the correct model .
14 ‘ I only know that it 's the green stuff that comes from China . ’
15 Recent results indicate that it is the basic domains of NC protein which are important for its nucleic acid annealing activities ( 6 , De Rocquigny et al.
16 Although the deposed Communist Party leader , Mr Egon Krenz , has been credited with countermanding orders to issue live ammunition to troops standing by to deal with the Leipzig demonstrations , other sources indicate that it was the military district commander who stepped in to avoid bloodshed .
17 In cases like that it 's the next of kin they want .
18 Remember that it is the cleared bank balance on which interest is payable and not the cash book balance .
19 It is difficult to deal sensibly with the craze unless we remember that it is the latest in a series of recognisably similar phenomena , which the law has had difficulty in regulating : the early ‘ happenings ’ , influenced by LSD ; the ‘ blues parties ’ , which were the last to hit the headlines ; the continuing ‘ northern soul ’ craze , and no doubt others which even the participants have long since forgotten .
20 Some have maintained that the Liberal Party was being rapidly undermined before the First World War and that its decline was almost inevitable , others , however , assume that it was the First World War which was responsible for the decline of a vapid Liberal Party — the divisions within Liberal ranks creating the political vacuum into which the Labour Party slipped .
21 ‘ People on the receiving end of a hoax bomb call never know if it is the real thing . ’
22 anymore , you know because it 's the nice ceremony and because it 's it 's a do .
23 I start counting from Wednesday which I know because it was the first day of term .
24 I have the feeling , too , that the great object of the recording engineers here has been to present the full sound-range from the faintest pianissimo to the most thunderous triple- forte , and to ensure also that we hear as it were the furthest tip of the singers ' sibilants and the deepest reverberation of the bass drum .
25 I note that it is the Liberal Democrats ' policy to take power away from parents and governors and to give it to centralised bureaucrats , and that is precisely like the Labour party policy as in so many things .
26 Many people believe that it is the careful controlled setting of a laboratory that makes experiments very powerful situations in which to draw causal inferences .
27 Said Prof Sunderland : ‘ We believe that it was the international reputation of these departments , together with the strength and imaginative nature of the particular proposals that ensured that Bangor did so well . ’
28 It is a practical objection not one of principle , and I believe that it was the fundamental reason that Lord Reid , for example , considered the general rule to be a good one as he said in the passage my noble and learned friend has cited from Beswick v. Beswick [ 1968 ] A.C. 58 , 74A .
29 There 's no other one like it in flying condition and I feel that it is the finest P-40 in the world today . ’
30 I love Moscow , and I think its beauties are many , but I think also that only the Van Cliburn coalition , casting its own magic so thick around itself that all the world becomes a glittering study in delight , could make one feel that it is the happiest and nicest and most cosy-comfortable spot on earth .
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