Example sentences of "it is [adv] that [pers pn] " in BNC.

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61 In Kuwait it is just that we by the way in Kuwait we have two courts , we have the civil courts and we have the Islamic court , and erm Islamic cases go to the Islamic court and otherwise they go to the civil court , except just we we accept erm how to live our live in a modern way and keeping up with the times , and it is a tradition that we have adopted in Kuwait , and the fact that it is for women can drive in Kuwait versus those that do n't in Saudi Arabia , I do n't believe I 'd like to put that in the Islamic context , it 's just a way of life which we have adopted .
62 It is just that they show a very late timing of their sleep/wake rhythm with respect to normal time-cues .
63 It is just that they have both been at it too often recently .
64 Those making the decisions have become in a precise sense semi-literate : they can read and write , it is just that they seldom do .
65 ‘ It is n't to say The Wedding Present just treat it like a job , it is just that they have natural courtesy and manners .
66 The first problem here is that the brevity of Scaevola 's response ( even by his standards three words is modest ) leaves it unclear whether he means that the debtors are not freed from any liability , or whether it is just that they are not freed from liabilities contracted after the first will was made .
67 It is just that they have no other choice .
68 Once again these hidden costs have been part of the investment-need right from the beginning — it is just that they have not been looked at closely enough .
69 It is just that I want to be free . ’
70 It is just that I do n't know what the man will do .
71 It is just that I believe they are probably more rare than is claimed .
72 It is just that I am trying to find ways of helping him through the first bad spell of his career .
73 ‘ I suppose it is just that I have led a more open life than you .
74 Blanche : I guess it is just that I have — old-fashioned ideals !
75 Not that I had a bad opinion of his character , ( I do n't know him ) , it is just that I feel most other clubs would not have even responded to you .
76 It is just that it could have been more meaningful and less unpleasant had it felt a touch more like a pilgrimage than a harsh , faceless drive for productivity .
77 It is just that he no longer thinks that filling every cavity is one of them .
78 It is just that he will not apply it to future pension rights because he is not in the least interested in defending workers ' pension rights .
79 At the moment it is just that she is missing . ’
80 Everyone has some quality they like , even if it is just that you are kind to animals .
81 But before I can do that I need to establish something even more basic : what it is exactly that I am inquiring into .
82 It is afterwards that they get stressed , particularly when they get home .
83 This was the language of the Conservative Right , and it is seldom that it synchronizes with the tenets of the reformist Left .
84 Jip and Zab succeed in contacting Xorandor 's offspring orally , and of course it is orally that they themselves finally work out their differences .
85 This position is not heterodox so far as relinquo ( or , as it is here expressed , dimitto ) is concerned : Section i argued that the problem with it is precisely that it attributes property directly to a beneficiary rather than vesting it in a trustee .
86 The case against it is precisely that it purports to explain the whole of history and , for that matter , of pre-history , by reference to a total system , and so denies to any of its implicated parts ( social , economic , racial , geographical , religious and so on ) as well as to the actions of its great or good men any separate authenticity .
87 It is enough that we see these things and sit with her while she drinks manzanilla or brandy to wash the sight away ( though we are never told why she drinks ) — these things are enough to make us participate in what we surmise she must be feeling .
88 ‘ In the present circumstances it is enough that we help each other , neh ? ’
89 The overriding criterion — that the service of a summons is impracticable or inappropriate — does not even have to be based on objective grounds ; it is enough that it should appear to be so to the constable making the arrest .
90 Whenever in relation to a loved person , idealized place or personal indulgence I find myself pushing out of mind some disagreeable thought , its relevance ( as distinct from its importance ) is not in doubt ; it is enough that it does spontaneously move me against what I have decided for .
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