Example sentences of "it [be] [adv] that [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ No , it 's not that men are excluded from these new values but that they have to adapt ; learn to change , ’ says Roderick .
2 The obvious two are Kevin Keegan — he 'd be crap … he 's just a jumped up little Geordie who still has n't shown he can produce a really imaginative team ; and Glen Hoddle — now , hed be my choice … why ? because he 's young , has the respect of the players , would introduce the concept of playing football into the national team ( after all , if you look at the individual skill level of English players it 's as good as just about anywhere in the world … it 's just that managers have refused to let them play ) .
3 It 's a big problem , it 's just that fluctuations you do , if you are aware you 've got some .
4 It is not , stresses Pavitt , that the UK has abruptly ceased to invest in computer hardware and software in the current recession , it is rather that companies which invest prudently , for example , in a better accounts receivable system to improve their cash flow , are likely to outweigh the number of competitive advantage go-getters .
5 It is not that boys go out on a Saturday night looking for milk bottles or other things to smash .
6 It is not that women are no good at chemistry .
7 It is not that writers invaded universities .
8 It is not that parents occasionally , and doubtless understandably , have to switch off the seemingly inexhaustible stream of ‘ whys ’ .
9 It is not that students , or staff for that matter , lack ideas for what might be possible .
10 It is not that students will get turned off by being given unconnected dollops of philosophy and sociology , and it is not that bringing in specialists in philosophy and sociology will lead to an incoherent curriculum , although both are true .
11 It is not that Egyptians have found a sudden enthusiasm for Islamic fundamentalism ; a majority probably resents the terrorism that has chopped tourism in half .
12 It is not that teachers in our primary schools dislike teaching bright children .
13 It is not that prospects for earnings are 10 p.c. better that they were in the middle of last week , but it is possible to argue that prospects are that much better than they would have been under a Labour government and that the market was discounting such a result .
14 It is not that children of high intelligence are somehow debarred from having a rich and satisfying school life .
15 It is not that men in management — MIM s as they are labelled by the pages of popular business handbooks — are unused to talk of a corporate future marked by chaos , turmoil , and ‘ reality turned upside down ’ .
16 It is not that cats do not enjoy all the aforementioned nocturnal pleasures , it is that nightlife is too dangerous for them .
17 It is not that librarians had no practice in the classification and cataloguing of non-book materials .
18 It is not that librarians did not know , nor that they did not care .
19 It is not that policemen and women fail to achieve emotional detachment , even though one policeman once remarked that at postmortems he was appalled by the way pathologists treat the body simply as a lump of meat and fail to show respect ( FN 17/12/87 , p. 15 ) .
20 It is not that police statistics are misleading on recorded crime , but they need to be considered in the context of the BCS and the local crime surveys .
21 It is right that students be initiated into the conceptual apparatus , skills and ways of going on within the teacher 's own discipline ; and it is right that students therefore acquire the discipline required for the necessary understanding and competencies .
22 It is right that students be initiated into the conceptual apparatus , skills and ways of going on within the teacher 's own discipline ; and it is right that students therefore acquire the discipline required for the necessary understanding and competencies .
23 While the above judgment confirms what the Society and , presumably , its members have understood all along , it is right that members should be notified about the matter .
24 It is here that fathers play an important part .
25 It is here that theorisations which see the nuclear family as a means for controlling the working class in the ‘ interests of capitalism ’ can be seen to be inadequate .
26 It is here that efforts have been made to open up resources to working-class communities and/or to provide access into educational institutions .
27 It is here that techniques of various kinds are put into action to achieve practical learning outcomes .
28 It is just that gentlemen are Well , it does not do , you see , to be too much apart .
29 It is just that politicians in power do show a tendency to become rather bogged down by the business in hand , and battered women , ill-educated toddlers and the tax status of child-minders have , for perfectly understandable reasons , so far not succeeded in exercising their imaginations .
30 It is not necessary to establish loss or injury to an individual or a group ; it is enough that losses are sustained .
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