Example sentences of "it [is] [adv] the [noun] that " in BNC.

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1 Erm , and it 's probably the problem that a lot of you have with Hamlet , you see .
2 Well I think it 's either the experience that people have suffered or prejudice , but erm what really infuriates people I think is the fact that when you talk about gipsies you 're no longer talking about the romantic idea of a gipsy caravan , a red gipsy caravan with a horse and little children and dark-eyed girls , the erm conception is all wrong .
3 It 's it 's not the boundary that is important to look at , it 's whether the land is open land , is n't it ?
4 I says no I ca n't , he says it 's not very far , I said it 's not the distance that bothers me it 's the fact that you want us to sit there till eleven o'clock at night and not get paid for it , he says yeah but if you want to say something , I says I 'd say something if I thought we 'd be backed on it , but we 're not , oh I 'm not going anywhere to be if I 'm not being paid
5 Well it 's not , it 's not the government that 's doing it
6 But it 's a , yo , it 's not the council that 's er putting out to the people on the radio it 's yourself !
7 It 's not the tears that fall at the time ,
8 It 's not the money that makes me happy .
9 It 's not the money that 's holding things up , it 's that awful new kit — of course any fashion conscious young man like Raymond would n't be caught in that rig and there was me thinking he was just a low down money grabber .
10 But er it 's not the road that that that it used to be .
11 It 's not the road that worries me .
12 See it 's not the blues that bother me I do n't think it 's just the fact that there 's there might be trouble afterwards .
13 By the way , this was the period when I could to a milk shop for a hape'orth of milk , but it 's not the halfpenny that people think now , cos the currency 's been altered quite a lot , it was very trifling , but it 's true .
14 In grasses , for instance , it 's not the ovule that is dispersed by the billions on the wind , it is the pollen .
15 It 's not other people , it 's not the problems that surround us , it 's not the people that we have to work with or the conditions in work , it 's not the next door neighbours , terrible though they may be , the real answer , for you and for me , lies within ourselves .
16 Well that 's certainly one way of looking at it erm but it 's not the way that Eisenhower looked at it , and it 's not the way that many people looked at it erm tt afterwards .
17 Well that 's certainly one way of looking at it erm but it 's not the way that Eisenhower looked at it , and it 's not the way that many people looked at it erm tt afterwards .
18 because it 's not the way that er it was designed for it , it was designed for something in which men pressed forward
19 This is , it it 's not the attitude that we need to be taking , and there 's no where else we 'd be supporting in , in in this , er , opposition to this particular European Council of Directive .
20 ‘ Maybe it 's not the milestones that matter but the road in between .
21 In fact Barbara was saying to me er wh why do n't you er but it 's not the thing that I 'd want to do .
22 As with centesimal , if we see that the patient 's symptoms are relapsing frequently in spite of repetition , a deeper complementary remedy will be needed , because it 's not the potency that is at fault but the choice of remedy .
23 No I 'll tell you why it 's not the fact that they they fit but they 're too narrow if
24 It 's not the children that I get so annoyed on the the trick or treat and the previous running up to the bonfire night .
25 It 's not the wax that 's doing it .
26 It 's not other people , it 's not the problems that surround us , it 's not the people that we have to work with or the conditions in work , it 's not the next door neighbours , terrible though they may be , the real answer , for you and for me , lies within ourselves .
27 And I 'm sure that that 's part of why sounds pretty good when he 's saying that it 's not the body that makes us who we are , it 's not the body that matters .
28 And I 'm sure that that 's part of why sounds pretty good when he 's saying that it 's not the body that makes us who we are , it 's not the body that matters .
29 It 's not the appointments that matter , it 's the activity around the appointment , the fact that I 'm gon na get up on Monday morning , I 'm gon na go training , and once I 've done that , I 've got to nip down to the library , O K , and look up that electoral role , I 've got an appointment , and then I 'm gon na go back to the office , I 'm gon na to do my mail shots and then I 'm gon na to go home , mow the lawn , have a bit of tea , and then I 'm gon na to my approaching , and then I 'm gon na go , yes , on that appointment there .
30 It 's not the severity that worries him but his inability to universalize the verdict and therefore take it to himself as he can take ‘ Vous l'avez voulu , Georges Dandin , ’ the thing of Molière 's Dostoevsky liked to quote .
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