Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] it [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This connection between economic performance , marriage , and fertility , perhaps the best known empirical association in social science , then worked through the ‘ valve ’ of marriage : delaying marriage or avoiding it was the only practical way of controlling births . |
| 2 | Thirty minutes of oratory and twelve of applause ; or had it been the other way round ? |
| 3 | Nor has it been the result of government action and state control . |
| 4 | What matters most is that we should accept the peculiarity of the method rather than assume it is the natural and only way to behave . |
| 5 | The only thing that spoilt it was the absence of Robert . |
| 6 | That sound posher than saying it 's the phone-in number . |
| 7 | The birds that do it are the oilbirds of South America , and the cave swiftlets of the Far East , the ones whose nests are used for birds ' nest soup . |
| 8 | And in the middle there was an area open to space , just a circle of bare surface with a window all the way round it , and a sign on the window that said it was the site of the Capellan arrival in the solar system . |
| 9 | ‘ And all this from the party that said it was the party of low taxation . |
| 10 | It 's being held in the town that claims it 's the birthplace of British ballooning . |
| 11 | Not only , therefore , was William party to the decision to request continuation of the supervision order , but he now looks back and agrees it was the right decision . |
| 12 | He smelt the scent of the roses , and realised it was the first time he had walked here , the first time he had looked at them , in four years . |
| 13 | She regarded him suspiciously , and realised it was the best he was going to do for her . |
| 14 | In the case of both /Ε/; and /a/ it is the persons for whom the vowel has less significance as a network marker who seem to be leading the linguistic change . |
| 15 | Christians are supposed to forgive , but what if say it 's the mother of somebody who had a child that 's been murdered or if somebody has been raped you can not say that they should forgive you cos they were a Christian . |
| 16 | ‘ And you knew Feargal , knew his name , knew he came from Slane , and assumed it was the same family . ’ |
| 17 | No two days are the same for the Buildings Branch and says it 's the variety which makes his job so enjoyable . |
| 18 | Then he makes up this funny word and says it 's the name of a disease by which his brain is rotting away . |
| 19 | Her sister thinks of this pain all day and night and says it is the worst part and I think it is , worse even than how it is to end . |
| 20 | Candle says it has successfully tested key DCE components within its Distributed Computing Server component in an MVS-OS/2 client-server environment and says it is the first implementation of DCE on an MVS system . |
| 21 | ‘ The chairman of the bench denies falling asleep and says it was the way he was sitting in his chair , ’ he said . |
| 22 | When all 's said and done it 's the character that counts . ’ |
| 23 | He ate pork chops in tomato sauce with us that evening , and claimed it was the first good meal he had had in six months . |
| 24 | He reaches into his bag , brings out a sandwich , then stands up and inspects it is the projector beam to see what it contains . |
| 25 | Providing something that is high on most corporate users ' wish lists , Hewlett-Packard Co has come up with an SQL-based interface that can read and update data in a non-relational network database , and reckons it is the first vendor to do so . |
| 26 | I measured it when it died and confirmed it was the correct species by carrying out various ichthyological classification data , such as scale counts and rin ray counts . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm so sorry — I saw the fire , and thought it was the dining-room . |
| 28 | I 'd already been to the forest couple of times as a student and thought it was the most wonderful place . |
| 29 | him a wee note , and tell him that you , that you , you know , you can feel this er I 'll tell him I 've had a look at it , and think it 's the rib that 's showing through . |
| 30 | You could live your whole life in some tiny place and think it was the whole world . |