Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] it [be] [adv] that " in BNC.

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1 The first problem here is that the brevity of Scaevola 's response ( even by his standards three words is modest ) leaves it unclear whether he means that the debtors are not freed from any liability , or whether it is just that they are not freed from liabilities contracted after the first will was made .
2 or , or whether it 's just that this is the best case that I can promote .
3 Having said that , it is entirely possible that one is being hopelessly naïve and that it is simply that the AIDS test has replaced the screen test as the sine qua non for any ambitious ingénue .
4 Afterwards Jared Tunstall had said to her mama , ‘ It was a question of a little hustler meeting a big one , and if it were n't that he has hurt Sally-Anne so badly I could almost admire the swine for his gall .
5 In my village there had been historic upheaval over such questions as whether it was right that hymns should be sung in the House of God .
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