Example sentences of "it is [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | that 's what it is because purl is . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It is because pleasure-seeking is a bottomless pit , never satisfied . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Erm yes it is yes it is because language language languages if you actually write down real language that people say it 's gibberish . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | For it is as publisher , not as chief executive , that Mr Sulzberger decides whom the newspaper will endorse in an election . |
| 12 | I mean that it is if size of Geoff and he 's , he hears a little noise |