Example sentences of "[that] it is the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm feel that it is the remit of this council , or indeed other district councils to talk about the whole of the county of Cambridgeshire , particularly when they start mucking around with issues well outside their own geographical area . |
| 2 | ‘ I am glad to tell you , ’ said Napoleone Lomellini , ‘ that it is the Bastard 's intention to lift the siege of Famagusta . |
| 3 | Female frogs will readily approach loudspeakers broadcasting frog calls , demonstrating that it is the call alone that attracts them . |
| 4 | From the analysis of Section 6–4 we can deduce that it is the conjunction of the distortion with non-unitary income elasticities that is especially important . |
| 5 | The person who acts like a chicken or conducts an orchestra for the stage hypnotist may be play acting , or he may genuinely feel that it is the hypnotist , not himself , who is taking responsibility for his actions . |
| 6 | All those who argue that it is the medium not the message that characterizes this revolution are , in my view , entirely wrong . |
| 7 | The use of I in the paraphrase suggests moreover that it is the speaker who somehow sees himself before the infinitive event because it implies that he has not yet realized his desire . |
| 8 | It is clear that it is the presence of imperfect information transmission that smooths the abrupt deterioration in reputation . |
| 9 | This elite , otherwise referred to by Mrs Whitehouse as the ‘ humanist lobby ’ , is left in no doubt by her that it is the influence of their humanism to which she most vociferously objects : |
| 10 | Even when parents strongly disapprove of the way their teenager is behaving , it is still important to make it clear that it is the behaviour and not the person that is being rejected . |
| 11 | We all believe that it is the faculty of language which has enabled the human race to develop diverse cultures , each with its distinctive social customs , religious observances , laws , oral traditions , patterns of trading , and so on . |
| 12 | Just because it is so common that it is regarded as ‘ normal ’ to expect chronic ill health with advancing years does that mean that it is the way things have to be or , indeed , should be ? |
| 13 | This bottom-up approach may well be a very fruitful way of trying to understand what language is and how it works , but that does not mean that it is the best way to teach a language , or that it is the way we use a language when we do know it . |
| 14 | This suggests feminism is crucial to attain women 's real and recognised participation in development , and that it is the way forward for women 's development . |
| 15 | After all , the median voter rule suggests that it is the way in which the middle two voters in the income distribution vote that determines the outcome of a rich or poor majority . |
| 16 | According to the hylemorphic theory of the scholastics , each individual thing or substance is a combination of ‘ matter ’ ( hyle ) and ‘ form ’ ( morphe ) , and it is because something has the form it has , that it is the kind of thing it is . |
| 17 | Suppose we believe that the snow is what is muffling the sound of the traffic , or that flipping the switch made the windscreen wipers start to work , or that it is the position of the car 's heater that accounts for the driver 's left knee being warm . |
| 18 | To return to one of our initial examples , consider the belief that it is the position of the car 's heater that accounts for the driver 's left knee being warm . |
| 19 | It might be rash to conclude that all that represents a rejection of radicalism ; better , perhaps , to say that it is the sense of radicalism itself that changed . |
| 20 | The group formed by let and the following infinitive is so close in these uses that it is the equivalent of a single verb : let fall corresponds to drop , let know to inform , etc . |
| 21 | It is best collapsed sideways so that it is the shape of one airfoil end . |
| 22 | The absence of a retarded signal in lane 2 confirms that it is the cDNA which is bound to the NCp7 in lanes 4–5 . |
| 23 | Appendix 10.1 provides the analysis of the scores and it should be noticed that it is the ratio of A and B scores that is significant , not the absolute values . |
| 24 | It seems likely that it is the ratio of anaerobes to pathogenic aerobic bacteria that determines the magnitude of pathological change in the established reservoir . |
| 25 | The answer is that it is mundane , but that it is the addition to these tasks of fluctuations in the level of activity which causes the problem . |
| 26 | In this account , Lévi-Strauss uses the ‘ hero 's journey ’ to self-analysis in the field as a means of achieving or engendering knowledge ( see also Caplan 1988 ) ; emphasizing that it is the journey to self-awareness itself , and not the arrival , which is the most important aspect of the rite de passage . |
| 27 | Nuclear Metals says , however , that the behaviour of the alloys is ‘ controversial … we are not 100 per cent convinced that it is the titanium alloy itself which is at fault — it may be the environment , ’ Don King of Nuclear Metals told New Scientist . |
| 28 | Hilton calls this stage the ‘ reformation of faith ’ and declares that it is the bedrock and indispensable preparation for the mystical life . |
| 29 | Bugey is one of those lost corners of France , a hilly region to the north-east of Lyon , around the town of Bellay , whose only claim to fame is that it is the birthplace of the French gastronome , Brillat-Savarin . |
| 30 | Another claim to fame by the village is that it is the birthplace of authoress Winifred Holtby , who sadly died in 1935 at the age of 37 and is buried in the churchyard here . |