Example sentences of "[adv] it is [conj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it is because Sri Lanka 's politicians have , in the past , been people of some stature , and the army used to be kept small . |
| 2 | If I am particularly hard on Chailly here it is because Schoenberg suffers so often from performances of this kind , and he so needs interpreters who understand the spirit behind the notes . |
| 3 | This to-one-side posture of novelist and novel explains how it is that Raskolnikov and Marmeladov are pointedly at a loose end while Crime and Punishment is anything but pointedly sociological . |
| 4 | When Svidrigailov and Porfiry , who never meet — bold again — and who have nothing to do with each other , both tell Raskolnikov that a man needs air , my business is to try and suggest how it is that Dostoevsky 's reader finds himself in immediate dual touch with a Petersburg july day and a universal truth . |
| 5 | There it is that Morag lives . |
| 6 | The recovery is slow and patchy , but the policy is sound — Labour Members who laugh and snigger at such remarks ought to ask themselves why it is that Britain of all the countries in Europe has the most inward investment from overseas investors . |
| 7 | They 'll want to know why it is that Britain 's second busiest airport has once again come perilously close to disaster . |
| 8 | One wonders why it is that Lewis could see the reality of this divine drama dancing throughout the pages of the scriptures even though many notable theologians could not . |
| 9 | Do you know why it is that Jean-Paul 's Algerian estates are so prosperous ? |