Example sentences of "it is [det] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.

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1 It is such a group of specialists that has helped us write technical briefs on the Food Hygiene ( Amendment ) Regulations , microwave ovens , BS 5750 , accessible accommodation for the disabled and cook-chill catering .
2 It is all a part of life relating to life , mind relating to mind .
3 It is all a question of mind over matter , ’ Davies says — ‘ just like Last Suspect .
4 It is all a question of time .
5 Perhaps it is all a question of timing , and that summer afternoon in 1921 was the moment when the linear impulse started its break through to public awareness .
6 It is all a question of being organised and having a plan ; after all , it takes a minute to tell the gardeners to spray this or frame that … ’
7 Well , maybe it is all a question of time .
8 It is all a question of respect and reputation — not just of the plaintiff as a human being , but as a worker — a public official , business executive , professional or performer .
9 I have friends who worry that I do n't eat well and regularly enough but I suppose it is all a continuation of the habits formed when I was a one-woman farmer .
10 It is all a matter of acclimatisation ... and practice .
11 So far as the Grand Junction Canal company itself is concerned , it is all a matter of inference and speculation .
12 As you can see , it is all a matter of common sense yet hundreds of windsurfers are rescued off the British coastline each year .
13 It is all a matter of taste , and more importantly , a matter of how an aroma makes you feel .
14 It is all a matter of degree .
15 It is all a matter of degree .
16 There is no sharp dividing-line between academic or professional courses on the one hand and general ones on the other ; indeed some of the broader courses involving several disciplines which have been mentioned already may well be thought of as general — it is all a matter of degree .
17 You think it is all a matter of love and loving , of care and caring …
18 But it is all a matter of language .
19 It is all a matter of cultural focusing .
20 It is all a matter of degree , of course , and much may depend on what communications have in fact passed between the persons concerned .
21 Fields get smaller and birch tree scrub predominates but it is all a Garden of Eden by Lewis standards .
22 ‘ Children sweeten labours , ’ he wrote ; and I suppose that is true , when it is all a labour of love .
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