Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] it [be] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or perhaps it is that life is simply not fair , and that skill and cunning are what we should be using to navigate its choppy waters , rather than making open displays of bravado against the odds . |
| 2 | Or perhaps it was that recollection , however poignant , was better than emptiness . |
| 3 | And thus it was that glamour had arrived for our heroine . |
| 4 | You 've not talked to me all day and then it 's that sort of thing . |
| 5 | The book represents an attempt to explain the series of unexpected corporate failures over the past few years and why it was that company accounts do not appear to have given adequate warning of what was to happen . |
| 6 | We 'll have more news and features later , but now it 's that time again : weather ; Lloyd . |