Example sentences of "it [be] [verb] [prep] [pron] [art] " in BNC.

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1 If it were left to itself the House of Commons could produce independent members in a way that would make the King 's Government impossible since it could refuse to grant the money needed to carry out his will .
2 It 's getting to us a bit but it 's making us even more determined .
3 It 's built round itself an aura of godlike objectivity .
4 It 's carrying with it a lot of soil , bits of rock ,
5 It is based on what the speaker wants to announce as his/her starting point and what s/he goes on to say about it .
6 But calling something a science does not guarantee that its practitioners forthwith cease to be attracted to the same specious accounts of what it is to communicate to which the rest of us are attracted when we try to say what communicating is .
7 We may indeed find the great house still standing tidily in a timbered park : but it is occupied by what the villagers describe detachedly as ‘ the atom men ’ , something remote from the rest of us , though not remote in the sense they themselves like to think .
8 It was explained to her the day they moved in . ’
9 But that said , erm what what it what the position is , er i is that we have put into the model Well we have n't put it into the model because it was given to us a part of the model and possibly by now North Yorkshire may have the revised model , No they have n't yet .
10 On the other hand there was some investment in being able to assess performance such that it was possible to reward people for ‘ good ’ performance , and the group were not entirely able to sort this one out in that it was representing to them a dependent desire to be judged and be judged as good , and yet a refusal to accept the terms upon which judgement was being made in that they felt depersonalized by it ’
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