Example sentences of "and it is [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it is Scotland 's opening World Cup qualifier — there 's no room for senti-ment . |
| 2 | The international landscape with which we began 1989 — the old , familiar structures of the two alliances , the Anglo-American special relationship , the European Community 's halting progress toward greater unity , and the newer but also beginning to be familiar element of reform in the Soviet Union — is being transformed , and it is Germany which is leading that transformation . |
| 3 | It is Artegall 's required attendance at the Faerie Court which prevents him from completing the renewal of justice in Eirena 's kingdom , and it is Elizabeth , A View of the Present State of Ireland makes clear , who halted the necessary civilising action undertaken by the New English there : |
| 4 | To pillory a car like the Escort — and it is Britain 's single most important model — is plainly asking for trouble . |
| 5 | And it is Britain she thanks for the startling transformation and thinks will keep her at the top . |
| 6 | but , then the next morning of course when Wendy got home she 'd been down my nephew 's looking after the kids for them and erm , and said we 've come to arrest you , and no , oh Rachael said oh mum there 's a police car pulled up outside , so she said , oh my god do n't tell me they 're wrong and it is Tracey , cos Tracey 's left home , she 's gone to live with her friend and erm , anyway , when Wendy got to the stairs she could n't go in , she could n't go any further and she said erm , when , when the policeman said Mrs I 've come to arrest you , she just about said Christ she said what have I done ? |
| 7 | The narrator ( of the Morgans ) is called Arthur and it is Arthur who survives the death of Philip and goes on to become a writer of some undefined kind on the model of David Copperfield and Great Expectations . |
| 8 | As she insists on dabbling in nuggets of ‘ culture ’ , I must remark that there is only one swan in her chosen Sibelius tone poem , and it is Dr Jekyll who turns into Mr Hyde . |
| 9 | And it is Strauss ! |
| 10 | But at root the attack is on God ( 11 ) , and it is God who puts the rebellion down . |
| 11 | ‘ Security ’ solutions — or rather , non-solutions , will continue to be uppermost , and it is Clarke , not Mayhew , whom we will see on television . |
| 12 | For in the main it is our own parishioners who donate the goods ; it is residents within the area who benefit from the high quality and the low prices ; and it is Charlie and May who have found a vocation in later life serving both community and parish with their gifts of energy and time . |
| 13 | And it is Hsiao Chieh Enge , not Fu Jen . |
| 14 | And it is HarperCollins which is publishing the Collins Cobuild Concordance Samplers . |
| 15 | Could I also say that erm again going back to Strathclyde that there is a , a social , there is a subsidy for those services erm where there is a social need up to a certain point and that is governed by the finance available , but its not as though , this is just the commercial network , in fact , er I think its erm something in the order of ninety two per cent of services in Strathclyde are commercially operated and it is Strathclyde region that fills the gaps . |
| 16 | FISA has been invited to design its F1 circuit within the complex and it is Pook 's belief that it will provide a permanent home ‘ for one of the grands prix in the US ’ . |
| 17 | Art is at least as important as Politics , whether in Peace or war , and it is Pound 's intransigent conviction of this that brings out the philistine in others beside Peter Robinson . |
| 18 | Even the Virtual Processor translator is retrieved only when needed , and it is Hinsley 's boast that no piece of code is ever loaded onto the processor that is n't about to be run . |
| 19 | Even the Virtual Processor translator is retrieved only when needed , and it is Hinsley 's boast that no piece of code is ever loaded onto the processor that is n't about to be run . |
| 20 | History has brought them together as a phenomenon without compare , and it is Pakistan 's good fortune that they are surviving fitness scares long enough to bring many honours to their country . |
| 21 | The days of the aristocracy are past , and it is Sir Leicester 's middle-class enemy , Lawrence Boythorn , who enjoys within the orderly limits of his modest neighbouring house a true ‘ stillness and composure ’ . |