Example sentences of "it is [adv] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is rather Britain that has chosen the Italian road and opted for a one-party state that may soon have more difficulty in government than it imagines . |
| 2 | But it is rather Sartre 's own text that seems to be caught between these two dialectical possibilities of expansion and compression in a double logic . |
| 3 | It is strictly PPR , and a long study of Pooley 's is recommended before starting your flight plan . |
| 4 | It Not so much move around , er some people , the age group you 're talking about going to the blues , because do n't just think that it 's it is prominently West Indians or blacks , that go , but there 's white people go as well . |
| 5 | ‘ It is surely Mahler 's best known music — especially since its use in Luchino Visconti 's 1971 Death in Venice — and it is also the only movement from the composer 's symphonies often performed independently . |
| 6 | Captain Richard Pearson , of the Serapis , on first sighting his opponent , remarked , ‘ It is probably Paul Jones . |
| 7 | Of all of Stamford 's curious people it is probably Stukeley who fully deserves the tide of ‘ Stamford legend ’ , and in spite of his attitude to the town , his work on Stamford has contributed significantly to its rich mythology . |
| 8 | IF MARTIN Pipe has a Gold Cup horse in his yard this season it is probably Rusch de Farges and there will be plenty of interest in this exciting young horse when he reappears in tomorrow 's A.F. Budge Gold Cup at Cheltenham . |
| 9 | IF MARTIN Pipe has a Gold Cup horse in his yard this season it is probably Rusch de Farges and there will be plenty of interest in this exciting young horse when he reappears in tomorrow 's A.F. Budge Gold Cup at Cheltenham . |
| 10 | As for his favourite grape variety , I think it is probably Tokay-Pinot Gris ; the wines from this subtle variety , less perfumed than Gewurztraminer , less grapey than Riesling or Muscat , can be heavy and overblown . |
| 11 | But as it is , it is primarily Prussia that 's er involved . |
| 12 | It is also Abacus ' 21st Birthday month . |
| 13 | It is also Berkeley Software Distribution 4.3-compliant . |
| 14 | It is just Cork 's luck that the main championship is already over , Bertie Fisher having retained the title on the Ulster International at the end of July . |
| 15 | For my tastes , watching the boats go by is one of life 's happiest pleasures , and the best place in the world to do it is undoubtedly Venice , the supreme and eternal sea-city . |
| 16 | Already , and it is hardly May , I have wandered down to the County Ground at Taunton to see old chums , and some not so old , and to see if I any longer belong . |
| 17 | It is certainly Leapor 's most angry description of a father figure , and must owe something to her disagreements with her own father . |
| 18 | It is indeed Mr . |
| 19 | But he will probably avoid restating Britain 's position that it is mainly China 's responsibility to restore Hong Kong 's confidence , and will instead urge locals to build the territory as a separate but valuable part of the ‘ one country , two systems ’ model under which it is to return to China . |
| 20 | At present it is mainly Ariens born between March 21 and 26 who have the best of this good luck , but those of you born in April will experience a surge of good fortune from June 1993 onwards . |
| 21 | It is mainly Joanna 's story , set in Ireland , written by an Irish woman and published by an Irish press — but it could be anywhere . |
| 22 | Touring Northumberland we visited the site of the battle of Flodden in 1513 , but it is really Branxton Ridge and the monument is near Branxton village Flodden Edge is about a mile away . |
| 23 | But it is so vindictively cold in this ill-lit room , and my alabaster hand aches so much from the thousands of words I have put down on this unhappy day , and my head still throbs , and my stomach is so empty , and my grief is so heavy , that I think it would be wise of me to break off at this point , this hinge , blow out the once again guttering candle and for the third time today go down the stone stairs to streets where it is always February . |
| 24 | It is , in particulars the unnerving intellectuality of the life around him that Hölderlin attacks , the overvaluation of philosophizing and the promise of action that never comes , the substitution of books and words for deeds , the excessive introspection and lack of worldly competence ( the criticism has a special poignancy in that these are character traits he is intimately familiar with , which at times become part of his self-criticism ) When he speaks of Greece , it is not always clear whether he has in mind the fifth century or the timeless present in which Hyperion lives , but it is always Greece that provides the contrast . |
| 25 | ‘ When we falter , ’ said Bec , peering into a huge simmering cauldron of something that smelled savoury and good , ‘ it is always Raynor who helps us . |
| 26 | It is therefore CPRW 's long term hope that aesthetically unacceptable sites , such as that at Meadow House , will eventually be removed . |
| 27 | It is therefore Christ who presents us to the Father , and our salvation derives from him . |
| 28 | It is therefore Mary the political animal , not Mary the female of the species , which has to be assessed . |
| 29 | It is therefore Mitchell 's study which best fits the general argument being developed here . |
| 30 | There 's nothing to it is there Sid ? |