Example sentences of "it be [adv] the [noun pl] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not the tears that fall at the time , |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Maybe it 's not the milestones that matter but the road in between . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Oh of course yeah it 's just the figures that disappear . |
| 8 | It 's it 's just the strains that I 've had to go through , raising her up , and the time and the energy and just having myself to be sane , you know and and well ! |
| 9 | Not so much now because it 's mainly the youngsters that go there . |
| 10 | And it 's that , it 's maybe the conditions that we impose before we achieve an alliance or are able to enter into joint activity , that bothers me greatly . |
| 11 | Most of us do a full week 's work — it 's only the skivers that do n't . |
| 12 | It 's only the ones that have nobody living |
| 13 | and it 's , no but here it 's only the holidays that really matter , if it was n't for the holidays I really would n't bother because here it really is so plotted out is n't it ? |
| 14 | It 's only the kids that are gon na be able to have this you know |
| 15 | So that a little bit of simple planning is a way round inheritance for the benefit of the children and it 's usually the children that people in the end want to benefit . |
| 16 | It is not the streets that exist . |
| 17 | But it is not the tampons that cause the disease but the bacteria which develops when a tampon has been in too long . |
| 18 | It is not the designs that are important but their social impact ; and it is not the physical distance between new and old that is of concern , but the social distance . |
| 19 | Lady Luck seems to turn against him when the chips are down — and it is certainly the chips that have gone against him . |
| 20 | In practise admissions staff use A-levels as a rationing mechanism to allocate students to oversubscribed courses and this in turn explains why it is usually the institutions that are least in demand that have the most ‘ liberal ’ admissions policies . |
| 21 | It is only the females that sting , but it is not easy to tell the difference between the sexes . |
| 22 | It has been postulated that it was either the dinosaurs that opened up the way for the angiosperms , or instead it was the changing nature of the flora itself that was in some way the prime mover of evolutionary trends ; that , in spite of all the advances in jaw structure discussed above , they somehow speeded up trends towards extinction . |
| 23 | In other words , it was n't the spasms that had ended and with it the pain , but the muscle wastage itself . |
| 24 | Yeah It was n't that it was n't the lumps that bothered me it was the uhum , the fact that the edges just does n't stay down . |
| 25 | Several times in fact , once on the tube train , twice on the ordinary trains , so it was n't the pictures that upset me — Doc Keylock had explained all that years ago , it 's all to do with the panting , what they call hyperventilation , causing a temporary malfunction in the brain — but I 'd never had anything as vivid as the memory I 'd just been through . |
| 26 | ‘ It was n't the ribs that worried me , ’ Tweed replied , sitting in his swivel chair . |
| 27 | In North America 55 million years ago , it was not the mammals that ruled the roost , it seemed , but Diatryma gigantea . |
| 28 | At first it was just the bodies that had been left in the corridors . |
| 29 | It was probably the archosaurs that started the division between herbivores and carnivores , since all primitive animals were scavengers , or killed prey that killed other prey . |
| 30 | Erm er anyway , never mind , um so um also erm particularly from a feminist perspective this idea of of so-called faulty family dynamics has been called into question by people like for example Hall and Lloyd who were saying that um , something along the lines of if you if you blame the family as a whole then this draws attention away from the fact that it 's not the families who do the abusing , it 's often , from their point of view , it was often the men that do . |