Example sentences of "it is [adj] [noun sg] [vb -s] " in BNC.

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1 Speed really wants to play more centrally and lets face it is better making runs into the box , for crosses and knocks-down than he is at beating a full-back and crossing the ball .
2 In this and in future legislation , it seems that the public interest almost becomes whatever it is that competition promotes .
3 If there is a lesson to be learnt it is that success has been related to demonstrated achievement in a core of subjects … a qualification requiring a minimum level of achievement and minimum level of performance being set against specified standards .
4 With Kiesling he argues that it is that femininity signifies inferiority to Thomas , and not femininity as such , which makes a woman unsuitable .
5 ‘ I think you do not appreciate what it is that space contains . ’
6 It is that disablement means impairment and impairment means flaw .
7 This school of writing allows the pluralistic nature of polities and the control of the state by the representatives of the working class to be explained , while at the same time outlining why it is that capitalism persists .
8 1991 , 27 1148 ) , I at once came to appreciate why it is that chemistry has so largely lost its appeal to the young : it is because its teaching has lost all discipline , degrading the science from a pursuit of excellence to ‘ fiddling the results ’ .
9 Although it started as a mutation , it is one nature has favoured and which has become established .
10 As it is this confusion has seen many of Mann 's photographs censored across America .
11 it is clear justice has already been meted out to you .
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