Example sentences of "[coord] it is [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The game continues until one player has all 48 beads — or it is time for supper ! |
| 2 | god of war of Norway or somewhere or something like that , or it is sort of thunder |
| 3 | The Class runs for an hour and it is playtime for the 24 children . |
| 4 | Engineering employment in the first half of nineteen ninety three is estimated to be a hundred and twenty thousand fewer than twelve months earlier and it is forecast to fall another forty five thousand in the next twelve months . |
| 5 | George 's patience is probably what keeps Lennie from really getting himself into trouble , all the time and it is patience that has kept Lennie alive so long . |
| 6 | Herbal remedies therefore still remain very important and it is campesina women rather than men who know about the healing properties of local herbs and pass their knowledge down from one generation to the next . |
| 7 | And it is self defence . |
| 8 | Clinton comes from a place named Hope — and it is hope other leaders are placing on his shoulders . |
| 9 | And it is photography which Messager uses to divert our attention from the sweet nostalgia of an imagined past . |
| 10 | This qualitativeness — the ‘ manifest image of the world ’ — is irreducibly connected with what experience is subjectively like , and it is part of what is lost if consciousness is analysed away or otherwise abandoned . |
| 11 | In the 1850s , when there was still little pumping from the Chalk aquifer , water levels were nearly as low as they are now ; low rainfall was the cause then , and it is part of the cause of Europe 's recent droughts . |
| 12 | It is ‘ making allowances ’ that is difficult , but bear in mind that the doctor does see parents who are genuinely harming their children , either mentally or physically , and it is part of his or her job to consider all the possibilities in every case . |
| 13 | This is what is referred to when one speaks of the implementation of a program being machine-independent , and it is part of the conventional distinction between hardware ( i.e. machines ) and software ( i.e. Programs ) . |
| 14 | For him , even choices which are clearly dictated by subject matter are part of style : it is part of the style of a particular cookery book that it contains words like butter , flour , boil and bake ; and it is part of the style of Animal Farm that it contains many occurrences of pigs , farm , and Napoleon . |
| 15 | A certain proportion remains unaccounted for and it is part of this that is claimed to be the product of investment in education and health . |
| 16 | The view that state subsidies encourage strike activity in a variety of ways is strongly held in advanced industrial societies , and it is part of the Conservative Party folklore on industrial relations . |
| 17 | If you concentrate on punishing criminals , you 're still leaving most crimes unsolved , and it is prevention that people are concerned about . |
| 18 | This is one of the most cherished articles of the STV creed , and it is nonsense . |
| 19 | That is absolute nonsense and it is nonsense that is years out of date . |
| 20 | My Lord making my main submissions to your Lordship , erm I submitted and it is position that there is no distinction between public and private acts , the thicken in the board , both the act and the central fund by the law should be taken as valid in the interim if your Lordship is minded to make a reference unless strong evidence of invalidity is produced , so your Lordship if you make a reference it needs to form a view as to the strength of the |
| 21 | Alison Norman in her challenging discussion paper suggests very basic origins for ageism : ‘ We have , after all , an animal inheritance and it is animal instinct to challenge and destroy the leader of the herd when his strength begins to fail and to abandon to their fate animals which are too weak to keep up with the rest . ’ |
| 22 | Although modern haymaking involves expensive , sophisticated machinery , it is still possible for a smallholder to make and store excellent hay with very modest tackle , and it is hay on which he is most likely to depend for the bulk of his winter keep . |
| 23 | The record will help to measure your progress and to motivate you ; for it is motivation that will get you going , and it is motivation that will keep you going . |
| 24 | And it is Government miscalculations that are to blame . |
| 25 | I have been acquainted somewhat with men and books , and have long experience in learning , and in the world : there is no book like the Bible for excellent learning , wisdom , and use ; and it is want of understanding in them that think or speak otherwise . |
| 26 | It is multa and it is mortar and bullet proof . |
| 27 | But at its finest , it reaches heights of eloquence that can not have been most on the leaders of the next generation and it is music that ought to be heard in our halls . |
| 28 | He holds the romantic belief that only the wordless language of music is complete and it is music which has always helped him to live and to write . |
| 29 | China is using every negotiating device , and it is master of them all , to carve out as big a place for itself as it can in pre-1997 Hong Kong . |
| 30 | This takes me into another key word and it is education . |