Example sentences of "it [is] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean we 'll move any day , but it 's whether Miss will you see |
| 2 | If the kitchen climate is changing , it 's because working conditions have lost the barrack room brutality which once characterised what was a pretty sordid job in all but a handful of restaurants and hotels . |
| 3 | It 's because manufacturing production erm , or this great scope in manufacturing production for economies of scale . |
| 4 | Or maybe it 's because golf is n't the be-all and end-all to him . |
| 5 | What one knows is that , when a film works , it 's because writer , director and producer were working in harmony and could inspire everybody else on the project with their joint vision . |
| 6 | Well I 'd say it 's because whatsername I do n't know what who I 'm going to come next to . |
| 7 | Well , it 's because protectionism has meant , has led to self sufficiency in the main , er , in the main consuming countries . |
| 8 | Why I do n't know , whether it 's because street lighting is less , or geographically lends itself . |
| 9 | And this is why , one of the reasons why we 've seen , we 've witnessed increased price volatility over the last forty years right , it 's because world markets have tended to become much more residual , much less world , much less worldly . |
| 10 | Right , it 's , it 's because world markets are residual markets because there 's so much agricultural protectionism . |
| 11 | If it does n't mean so much today as it did , it 's because rock is n't as strong as it was , it does n't matter so much anymore . ’ |
| 12 | Instead it is because success has been dependent on the ability to win the argument on each individual placement with each head teacher that this investment , as part of the in-service programme , is worthwhile . |
| 13 | It is because trust has been eroded by the long running conflict between central Government and the teaching unions that as a nation we are far from realising the ideal of having our schools staffed by the true professionals that children deserve . |
| 14 | If the husbands ask why there should be such a penalty , then I can only answer that it is because Parliament has enacted as it did . ’ |
| 15 | If British managers prefer manpower to machines it is because manpower is easily adjusted to the rapid changes in demand , which are common in this country . |
| 16 | that 's what it is because purl is . |
| 17 | It is because grammar has the effect of refining the relatively raw conceptual material of lexis by systematizing it in this way that it is considered as the primary determinant . |
| 18 | It is because pleasure-seeking is a bottomless pit , never satisfied . |
| 19 | In part it is because training is in-service and little emphasized and also because so much of government is secret , information being deliberately kept from Parliament and the public . |
| 20 | Erm yes it is yes it is because language language languages if you actually write down real language that people say it 's gibberish . |
| 21 | George was also on the board of the Scottish Orchestra ( currently the Royal Scottish National Orchestra ) but it is as creator of the much-loved Cosmo cinema in Glasgow in the 1930s that he will always be remembered . |
| 22 | For it is as publisher , not as chief executive , that Mr Sulzberger decides whom the newspaper will endorse in an election . |
| 23 | I mean that it is if size of Geoff and he 's , he hears a little noise |