Example sentences of "it [art] [adj] [noun] that " in BNC.

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1 Nor is it the first time that Rupert 's good name has been besmirched .
2 And with it the unbelievable fact that she had survived .
3 so I actually took it the other way that , you know , do you just want a cup of tea .
4 Graham calling from in Sussex , is it the economic aspects that concern you most ?
5 The definition also removes the present reference to expectation and with it the possible argument that goods which are generally of low quality generate low expectations .
6 Or is it the merest coincidence that Kyle is sitting back in his chair , with the receiver to his ear , stroking the bald patch on the back of his head as I explain my business ?
7 ‘ Is it the papist meat that gets you going , Breakspear , is that it ? ’
8 The prominent white clasts are fragments of anorthosites — calcium and aluminium-rich rocks that make up the bulk of the lunar highlands crust and give it the light colour that is visible from Earth .
9 This is partly as a means of enhancing control , permitting the field man to transmit his concern about the effluent to the discharger , the props of sampling conferring a certain sense of gravity and the act of sampling carrying with it the clear implication that the discharger is under scrutiny .
10 Nor was it the disturbing rumours that by December 26 the country could be in the grip of a new and particularly alien ‘ Made in Taiwan ’ midwinter flu .
11 But when asked by the coroner is it the obvious conclusion that the damage was done by the forceps … he answered probably yes .
12 I really I really do wish it was that simple and I wish that when I pick up The Star on a Thursday or one of the other local papers that I did n't read in it the twenty cars that 's broken into and and all the other problems and I say to myself now why did that happen .
13 The head of the figure at the extreme left , for instance , is different in colour from those of the central figures , and even different from the body to which it is attached ; in it the pale pinks that had characterized so much of the work of 1906 have been mixed with black to produce a much more sombre effect .
14 The arts minister , Jordi Sole Tura , wants to give it the ornate edifice that currently houses the ministry of agriculture .
15 Of all the ways to commit a murder , is n't it a strange coincidence that Angy was stabbed in the throat , just like she was in the portrait ? ’
16 This fact , together with the facts mentioned above , that Fahreddin Acemi appears to have been the first to hold the office of Mufti without an accompanying kadilik and to have been the first to receive a salary specifically in respect of the Muftilik , makes it a reasonable assumption that he was the first Mufti in the sense commonly understood in later times .
17 Is it a useful mutation that helps the race survive ?
18 Is it a confident future that you 're looking at ?
19 Hilton sees this destruction as a continual process , but he also recognises in it a major stage that other mystics call the " dark night of the senses " a particularly sharp period of suffering during which the will is firmly dislodged from false values and reoriented towards God .
20 is it a blue book that 's the white one .
21 Many thought it a cruel injustice that Julian should have to go to prison at all .
22 Thanks to deft chairmanship and bluntness , he drew from it a respectable report that won praise for its forthrightness .
23 You 'd recognize this if you are a driver and especially a driver who maybe has the opportunity of travelling long distance , now years ago when I was younger and perhaps some of you in the audience when you were younger , you could go from here to the South of England with no trouble , without a break and you 'd head on down the motorway and you , you 'd be alert and alive and er ready to meet up with all sorts of emergencies and you 'd drive quite well all the way down , non stop down the South of England , but if you 're like me now , when I get to Stafford on the motorway you 're beginning to feel as if you 've had enough and it 's difficult to try and keep your concentration as you used to years ago , and that 's how it can be in the truth sometimes , when we 've been with it a long time that , we grow older not only physically , but spiritually too we become very experienced in the truth and we become very sort of fat spiritually , we can live off of that fat ca n't we ?
24 He thought it a great feat that she had got in from the Point in an hour and a quarter .
25 Dathan and Abiram for their part reject Moses ' leadership and reproach him with these words : ‘ Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey , to kill us in the wilderness , that you must also make yourself a prince over us ? ’
26 When the Equal Opportunities Commission , in its equality agenda , describes child care facilities as meagre in the extreme compared with the facilities that are available in the rest of Europe , when we know that the women in work to whom the Minister has referred are often forced into part-time work because of inadequate child care arrangements and when we bear in mind his entirely complacent answer , is not it a good thing that a Labour Government are coming who will ensure that child care provision is expanded ?
27 Geoff Geoffrey Hoskins is it a good thing that we no longer we have too super pow powers viewing for authority and all the rest of it or are you as worried as ?
28 Is it a modern myth that workers have rights — a wicked concoction of trade unions ?
29 Then she held out her hand to Eileen and gave it a strong clasp that made her wince .
30 Or was it a surgical implant that enabled him to endure more terror than ordinary men , a supplementary hypothalamus ?
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