Example sentences of "of it is [conj] " in BNC.
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1 | The beauty of it is that you can easily move them around on the wood . |
2 | The worst of it is that one can not yet express a proper anger about the state of things , since it is just about possible that the Frauleins Krabbe , Breuer and Moller are innocent of any serious wrongdoing ( if that 's the right term ) in the affair of the Uniform Urine . |
3 | ‘ So , the fact of it is that you last went down that stretch of lane at four o'clock . ’ |
4 | The long and the short of it is that he came in to replace Andy … |
5 | The pity of it is that this happens to be as beautiful a cat as the Sphynx is ugly . |
6 | Anyway , the upshot of it is that he 's written a song , for his daughter , based on the Basil Brush thing . |
7 | With Elton , the joy of it is that at least you 're quite familiar with a lot of the stuff , and even if you have n't actually sat down and worked through it you know how the songs go . |
8 | The old tricks should be left alone , because the reality of it is that when I go on tour in a couple of months , I 'm going to be playing all these songs and I 've been careful never to repeat past compositional techniques . |
9 | And the worst of it is that this disturbing new trend has extended beyond the mall and into the magazine . |
10 | And the worst of it is that , unlike the small child , they have learnt so many of the tricks of the adult world : How to play on parental guilt , how to manipulate , how to hide their real feelings and how to convince those that love them most that they are ‘ OK , honestly , mum ’ when actually they are consumed with anxiety and doubt . |
11 | The most you may be able to say at the end of it is that you ‘ gained understanding ’ ; to some of us that may be unsatisfactorily intangible , while to others it may be of profound significance . |
12 | The Air Force will write to his mother if there 's anything to tell , and the awful part of it is that I do n't know where she lives . |
13 | The whole thing takes around 12 days to complete and takes in all the best Lakeland peaks , but the beauty of it is that it can be divided into any number of day sections and there 's always a lowland alternative route in case the weather is really awful on the tops . |
14 | They 'd sooner take a job eight to five in a factory , if they can get it , and the worst of it is that the ones who do take it on ca n't find a wife . |
15 | The beauty of it is that while nut everyone can become Black or become a woman , anyone can join the ‘ real people ’ . |
16 | And the beauty of it is that she embodies this core value of intimacy in her music better than anyone else who 's arrived on the scene in years . |
17 | The upshot of it is that the appellate court , where the matter is one of discretion , as this is of course , will not interfere with the discretion of the court below unless it considers that the court was plainly wrong or it has erred in principle , that it has taken into account something it should not have done or has failed to take into account something it should have done , and on that narrow basis I must proceed with this appeal . |
18 | So can you give me a use of cast iron which ha one of the effects of it is that it relies on the occasional lubricating properties of the graphite in the iron ? |
19 | The fact of it is that my five years are now up and hence my retirement is over . |
20 | Erm the gist of it is that the money from the A B C er i you 're not allowed to go over your forty eightieths of your pension with it . |
21 | But the main thing that came out of it is that they need from us er the client reports . |
22 | How different it was all to be , and the marvel of it is that the plans prepared in the period after 1945 proved as robust as they did for so long . |
23 | The only pity of it is that they 're running out of Forster novels to film . |
24 | And the maddening part of it is that it 's my own fault . |
25 | Yeah , I think , I think really the er the er overall view of it is that it 's not serious investment , I mean it is just pure flutter . |
26 | The simplest way to choose is to think of it is that God is the incarnation Christ is the incarnation of God . |
27 | And the worst of it is that you do n't even see those people you knock over as you charge along . ’ |
28 | The nub of it is that since this is a double room Rachel is therefore cohabiting , and she is not entitled to state help to pay for the rent . |
29 | The crucially important aspect of it is that changes in the level of prices which are foreseen , or are expected , have no effect on the level of output . |
30 | The essence of it is that if expectations of a variable are rational they will be determined by the process governing that variable . |