Example sentences of "it is [adv] that [pron] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is rather that he realigns fantasy and fact by using a set of ready-made and entirely artificial rules governing talking animals to explore the workings of a no less unnatural , controlled and rigidly inhuman system . |
| 2 | For me , at least — and I think for most people who travel around this country for pleasure , that is , to see things — it is simply that one gets a greater depth of pleasure out of knowing the anatomy of a town and why it takes that particular form and not just its superficial features , however attractive they may be individually . |
| 3 | If this book has a significant weakness , it is simply that it takes three chapters to get into its stride . |
| 4 | It is thus that he declares himself for Dunning 's sapphics , flashing out at ‘ any one who can not feel the beauty of their melody ’ ( my italics ) . |
| 5 | Although Anderson does not demonstrate a similar degree of pomposity when interrupted by the chairman , in scene eleven , it is here that he shows the most glaring disdain of politeness moves . |
| 6 | Significantly , it is here that he locates ‘ mirth ’ . |
| 7 | It is here that it seems to me that there are basic problems which are not thought through , and moreover that moves are made which are deceptive , in that they give the impression that a solution has been found where in fact the main issue has not been tackled . |
| 8 | It is also that it has failed to regain the support of the working class — old and new — that it lost in 1979 . |
| 9 | It is just that one learns to be careful , particularly if one is a writer . |
| 10 | It is just that one needs to be careful to interpret the segments according to the product strategy being employed . |
| 11 | This was the language of the Conservative Right , and it is seldom that it synchronizes with the tenets of the reformist Left . |
| 12 | The case against it is precisely that it purports to explain the whole of history and , for that matter , of pre-history , by reference to a total system , and so denies to any of its implicated parts ( social , economic , racial , geographical , religious and so on ) as well as to the actions of its great or good men any separate authenticity . |
| 13 | This position is not heterodox so far as relinquo ( or , as it is here expressed , dimitto ) is concerned : Section i argued that the problem with it is precisely that it attributes property directly to a beneficiary rather than vesting it in a trustee . |
| 14 | Whenever in relation to a loved person , idealized place or personal indulgence I find myself pushing out of mind some disagreeable thought , its relevance ( as distinct from its importance ) is not in doubt ; it is enough that it does spontaneously move me against what I have decided for . |
| 15 | It does not matter whether the party accepting the consideration has any apparent benefit thereby or not : it is enough that he accepts it , and that the party giving it does thereby undertake some burden , or lose something which in contemplation of law may be of value . |
| 16 | After the initial impetus has run out , he wrote , and before one has got in so far that it is easier to finish than to go back , it is then that it becomes hard to be sure of your footing , hard to know why you are doing what you are doing , hard to know if you are doing correctly what you are doing . |
| 17 | It is then that it becomes a natural magnetic recorder . |