Example sentences of "it is [adv] [conj] [pers pn] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Clearly the reason they claim to have burnt it is simply that they realize it would be too risky to let us examine it . ’ |
| 2 | Yet , much that they wrote then resonates as much today : it is simply that we do not comprehend it . |
| 3 | Perhaps it is simply that you do not have the courage to do so . |
| 4 | ‘ It is simply that I have different ideas than the gentlemen who give places to men … . ’ . |
| 5 | Similarly , C. S. Lewis 's The Allegory of Love is praised by Kathleen Tillotson for charting the nature and evolution of two " principles " , or fundamental movements of the human mind — romantic love and allegory : " It is rarely that we meet with a work of literary criticism of such manifest and general importance as this . " |
| 6 | ‘ It is not that we do n't like banks , just , well , I 've never even had a personal overdraft . ’ |
| 7 | It is not that you have to be ‘ good ’ , just stop believing you are ‘ bad ’ . |
| 8 | When you have finished the novel it is not that you have really finished it , but that you have decided to do no more work on it . |
| 9 | I have been accused of favouring Transworld in the past , so I feel I must defend myself and say that it is not that I love Transworld so much as that I admire success . |
| 10 | ‘ It is not that I do n't long for my former mate , But because of you I wo n't reach my flock . ’ |
| 11 | It is not that I have no reason to submit to the moral law and can do as I please ; I am left with no reason even to do as I please . |
| 12 | ‘ It is not that I have n't got time for girls . |
| 13 | It is not that I have forgotten what other people are like . |
| 14 | She felt a frisson of gratitude at his thoughtfulness ; then , reminded absurdly of Ethel ( who had not so much wanted to be a bridesmaid , as to be asked ) : It is not that I look forward to it , she thought , if Frank was anything to go by , but at least I would expect to be , tonight , a little irresistible … |
| 15 | It is not until we broach such questions as , What is meant when a speaker sets an adjective in juxtaposition to its noun as opposed to linking it indirectly via a form of the verb to be ? that we can start to give a full and proper account of syntax . |
| 16 | It is not until they get accepted into the Project that we find the problem emerging that perhaps senior staff are not supportive . |
| 17 | But , crucially , and this reminds us of Genet , Bersani locates a challenge inseparable from a certain ambivalence : if gay males threaten male heterosexual identity , it is not because they offer a detached parody of that identity , but rather because ‘ from within their nearly mad identification with it , they never cease to feel the appeal of its being violated ’ ( ‘ Is the Rectum a Grave ? ’ , 208 — 9 , his emphasis ) . |
| 18 | If open hostilities have not commenced with the Nez Perce it is not because they have not been outraged to that degree when ‘ forbearance ceases to be a virtue . ’ |
| 19 | Even when they deal with upper/middle class offenders , as in Columbo , it is not because they have committed corporate crimes , but because they have committed the stereotypical conventional crime of murder . |
| 20 | The piles are driven down from above into the swamp , but not down to any natural or ‘ given ’ base ; and if we stop driving the piles deeper , it is not because we have reached firm ground . |
| 21 | As Wittgenstein observed : ‘ If however I doubt whether a spider feels pain , it is not because I do n't know what to expect ’ ( Z 564 ) . |
| 22 | SIR JACOB : It is right that she do n't seem desirous to drown the remembrance of her original in her education . |
| 23 | It is thus that we understand |
| 24 | It is thus that I arrive at my multiplier for the whole life of eighteen . |
| 25 | It is best if we have no dealings with Sir Richard and other members of his household . ’ |
| 26 | I think it is best if we leave as soon as we can . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ My Lady , ’ Athelstan said softly , it is best if you tell the truth . |
| 28 | It is best if you make each drawing to the same scale . |
| 29 | ‘ It is best if you keep the doors locked , ’ said Mr Thabane to me . |
| 30 | In order to disguise what you are doing from your spectators it is best if you stand with your left side to the audience as the crucial move occurs on the inside of the left hand . |