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

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1 ‘ She came over to America to promote her book pretending to be royal and it is all rubbish .
2 And it is that grouping , the J R P , that have got agreement between the Ethiopian government and the Tigre People 's Liberation Front to move food for the first time from the Ethiopian government areas into the areas controlled by the Tigre People 's Liberation Front .
3 Most important is the district council ; for nearly all purposes they are the planning authority and it is that council which issues planning consent .
4 The individual in whom that spirit lives will be faced with the opportunity to do such wrong and it is that individual who makes the choice and decides which path to follow .
5 The other is the far gamier world of Defoe and Fielding , and it is that memory that Amis and Murdoch revived .
6 That is where our freedom lies and it is that freedom which the fatwa threatens , and which it can not be allowed to destroy . ’
7 Er and it is that minority of unscrupulous traders who make life very difficult for you and of course make life very difficult for Trading Standards .
8 And it is that uncertainty which limits the value the City can put on Sir Ernest 's other risky ventures , and explains why the share prices do not add up .
9 Kevin Gallacher , Coventry 's leading scorer , could return after a four match absence through injury and it is that department which , according to manager Don Howe , has dragged Coventry into the relegation fray .
10 Well erm the Greater York study area has been defined and it is that area erm on the front of the erm of the Greater York er study document .
11 The only difficulty is , is er the interpretation of of the words and er whether or not the the words er er er er in the vicinity of is more constricting than we anticipate and it is that point which will be needn which needs to be addressed , but I think I can assure the No Noble Lord that erm er they w w will have full jurisdiction on and in the vicinity of the stations which is the point which she which she is anxious about and that will continue just the same after April the first before .
12 And it is that point which has raised questions in the minds of some MPs who hitherto have been relatively happy with Clarke .
13 Whilst a patent will be refused for a computer program simpliciter ( or any of the other exceptions in section 1(2) for that matter ) it will be allowed if the purpose of the program is to bring about some practical effect and it is that effect which is the subject matter of the patent application .
14 In the Eighties , he made a remarkable body of neon art and it is that side of his activity which forms an exhibition at Anthony d'Offay ( to 16 May ) .
15 The reader can hope , all the same , that the writer will give an account of the special merits of key pictures , and it is these art critical passages which can be of most help in enjoying or appreciating the chosen artist 's achievement .
16 Most plants consist of a main rootstock from which several ‘ eyes ’ have grown to form sizeable ‘ branches ’ , and it is these side growths that should be retained , cutting them from the parent with as much healthy young rootstock as possible .
17 We have already seen how naturally the need to fit a certain number of half wavelengths into an interval leads to discreteness and it is some way of introducing a radical discreteness into mechanics which we are looking for .
18 New members , particularly , are always interested and it is some while since we had a ‘ Sales Boost ’ and we need the shelf space and the money !
19 Stead argues that only constant inquiry ( for which I could substitute ‘ inside ethnography ’ ) can prevent such an unacceptable trend , and it is some comfort to see a probationary policewoman , such as Cressida Dick ( 1985 ) , pointing out the political compromises such autocracy can produce , but which few of the chief officers seem willing to admit or even acknowledge .
20 Legislation has reduced the barons to serfdom , and it is some time since they seriously hampered leadership policy ( more often , lately , they have helped defeat constituency insurrection ) .
21 This is perhaps inevitable since deconstruction resists teleology , and it is this resistance that has enabled its enemies to call it nihilist .
22 The feature of human culture and human activities that gives rise to the representation problem is above all that human communities embody norms , and it is this notion that I shall principally discuss .
23 Today , gold is mixed with a variety of alloys to enhance these qualities , and it is this mixture which determines its value and purity .
24 The fourth type of love is what the New Testament calls agape and it is this kind of love to which Jesus refers in calling on us to love our neighbour as ourself .
25 A literally incalculable number of wives , ex-wives , widows and children were also engaged in casual work which is not recorded by the census , and it is this kind of employment , usually undertaken at the dictates of the family economy , that will be considered briefly here .
26 The school closed in 1987 and it is this part , together with the old playground and grassed area , which the RIBA have purchased and converted into offices .
27 Whilst the 60MHz iteration ca n't be clocked any faster , the 66MHz mask is designed to go to 100MHz and it is this part , touted as providing two-to-three times the performance of the 80486 , which Intel will use as a springboard for the launch of other Pentium family members — see back page .
28 This misrecognition later becomes the ‘ ego ideal ’ which affords identification with idealised others , and it is this possibility of identification which constitutes another aspect of pleasure in film-viewing , as well as the voyeuristic mode posited by Freud .
29 Instead it qualifies the property inherent in the noun used ( see Chapter 1 ) , thereby producing a complex property which is different both from the simplex properties and from their simple sum or union ; and it is this property-complex which is relevant to the relation of identification .
30 And it is this money which can be channelled , undetected , into the slush funds via foreign banks .
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