Example sentences of "it [is] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's certain it 's caused by sewage pollution . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's caused by water retention , not by what you ate . |
| 3 | Somewhere in the depths of Bell Atlantic Corp , Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , Very Long Instruction Word technology is making a resurgence , and this time around it 's destined for use with Sun Microsystems Inc 's Sparc RISC chip . |
| 4 | As has been pointed out many times in the past , sport is n't played on paper , it 's played on grass . |
| 5 | Holyfield speaks in a deep bass voice which makes everything he says sound as though it 's carved in stone . |
| 6 | It 's carved in stone , it 's written in the sky . |
| 7 | I think this year speaking from memory it was something like fifteen , sixteen percent er , increase this year erm , but er , we 're getting to the stage now where it 's , it 's getting into profit and so we 're quite pleased with the growth there . |
| 8 | Speaking brightly to close the gaps , as if at a party ) : So it 's getting near Christmas . |
| 9 | you 're coming near to the end of your shift you 're not waking up because it 's getting near morning whereas everybody else is , you 're finding it much more difficult to carry on because you 've gone through the whole night working , the night is well along and it becomes increasingly more difficult to stay awake so physically , spiritually , whatever way you look at it , it is certainly very difficult to stay awake in the truth today , but it is n't that difficult and it is n't er a hurdle that none of us can overcome , Jehovah says that his load is light , Jesus echoed that did n't he and it is true that if we do Jehovah 's will , Jehovah 's way , then it will be made light for us , he will help us to stay awake , but he 's not going to allow us to slumber and drift off into obscurity , but it all comes back in hinges upon us and that 's why the counsel is in verse thirteen as a day , as in a day time look , let us walk decently so we have to do something do n't we ? |
| 10 | So it 's getting in control of this you can only control it if you understand it . |
| 11 | It 's , it 's living in harmony I suppose will be the word you know the , the environment sort of moves in to the power station and does n't get attacked , everywhere else gets attacked you know , people scrub up the weeds in the garden and things like that , here they 're allowed to grow , the butterflies come in , insects , great you know just , just love it . |
| 12 | When Riddler says that the tea they drink is called that ‘ even if it 's made of privet … a sort of memory , ’ she is harsh and spiteful as she is about everything else instead of evincing any rue or regret . |
| 13 | It 's only metal-lined on this side , it 's made of wood , but it 's very heavy . |
| 14 | It 's made of plastic and it 's all pink and shiny . |
| 15 | It 's made from carbon fibre like new expensive tennis rackets . |
| 16 | It 's made from walnut , matching the fingerboard and headstock veneer , and is glued and bolted to the top of the body so there should be no danger of it ever lifting . |
| 17 | MYSELF : It may have been the isolated act of a madman , but that does n't mean it 's isolated in history . |
| 18 | It may look like just a muddy old pond , but as Sir David Attenborough explains to these schoolchildren , it 's teeming with life . |
| 19 | S. H. The worst part of the job is when you had to go round that beat at four o'clock in the morning and it 's teeming with rain . |
| 20 | She does n't use the top one it 's jammed with paint and I loosened the saddle on the other when I was pretending to have a piss . |
| 21 | I suppose it 's striving for immortality , just being different , making your mark . |
| 22 | In other words it 's , it 's sticking from east to west , people will know of all the thing , it 's er tell you that many from eastern parts and western parts were called and reclined at the table , in other words this , well this good news that Jesus was sticking on this |
| 23 | The Drowning Pool , that 's Paul Newman and , and Janet erm , Joanne Woodward , that 's the one where you get trapped in this place and it 's filling with water . |
| 24 | They get trapped in a place and there , it 's filling with water and they , they 've got ta get them , they got ta , they gon na drown because it 's filling with water and they got ta get out , get out before the room fills with water completely . |
| 25 | They get trapped in a place and there , it 's filling with water and they , they 've got ta get them , they got ta , they gon na drown because it 's filling with water and they got ta get out , get out before the room fills with water completely . |
| 26 | Unless it 's raining of course … |
| 27 | it 's raining in time for us to go to school , come on |
| 28 | It 's covered with dust and the road 's dry underneath , although we 've had a lot of rain . ’ |
| 29 | It 's covered with blood ! " |
| 30 | There 's no point in cleaning that carpet , it 's covered in coffee stains — nobody minds it . |