Example sentences of "it [be] that a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could it be that a degree of PMS ( I do not mean suicidal or murderous tendencies ) is a perfectly reasonable response by a healthy reproductive system to the unnatural state of non-pregnancy ? |
| 2 | The control which the withholding of love gives to a parent emphasises how tremendously important it is that a child should be genuinely loved in the first place . |
| 3 | The more serious the incident , the more likely it is that a judge 's professional neutrality and independence , as well as his legal training in taking evidence and establishing the facts , will be sought to command public confidence . |
| 4 | rhetorical question is , you know is it is that a question you wanted to try to answer or are you erm |
| 5 | James 's aim is the psychological one of explaining how it is that a person is able to locate a stimulus on the surface of his body . |
| 6 | It is that a person who takes another 's car ‘ can escape liability to tougher sentences only if he or she can show , on the balance of probabilities , that either the aggravating event occurred before he or she committed [ the basic s. 12 offence ] , or that he or she was not present at the relevant time . ’ |
| 7 | The second defining characteristic of compatibility guarantees a genuine relationship of sense : it is that a pair of compatibles must have a common superordinate . |
| 8 | Bumble-bees do not have advanced knowledge of aeronautical science , yet some extremely complicated maths is required to explain why it is that a bumble-bee can fly . |
| 9 | Could somebody please explain to me why it is that a project that was always highly speculative and which now looks like a near disaster should have been so profitable for investors ? |
| 10 | The problem with it is that a lot of people are asymptomatic and you do n't know whom may or may not be carrying Jardea . |
| 11 | We have to produce some account of how it is that a belief can achieve this status and play this special role . |
| 12 | It is that a pupil decides what he will , or will not , consent to do . |
| 13 | Jennie explained how crucial it is that a rider can use his aids independently of each other . |
| 14 | A duty is something black and white : once we know what it is that a body has a duty to do and what it actually did , we can say either that the authority has performed its duty or that it has not . |
| 15 | In general , it appears that the more complex the level of stimulus processing required , the more likely it is that a difference between the ears will be revealed with monaural presentation . |
| 16 | The appearance of a weaning-trauma in early agricultural cultures explains the paradox of why it is that a loss of the ideal mother — that is , a frustration — leads to an over-involvement with her . |
| 17 | When you come to think about it , how amazing it is that a singer whose recording career lasted only seven years ( where Decca is concerned ) could produce enough material to fill ten CDs even allowing for the addition of much off-the-air material , and excluding Das Lied von der Erde , the Klemperer Kindertotenlieder and Mahler 's Second , and Brahms 's Liebesliederwalzer , the last three just issued on three further discs in Decca 's Historic series . |
| 18 | This question can not be answered without knowing just what it is that a manager does . |
| 19 | Neither of them was capable of searching out any fairy-tale kink in the more drab theories of evolution which might explain how it is that a frog taken ( however reluctantly ) into the soft bed of a princess can be changed overnight back into a prince . |
| 20 | These two tasks are inextricably interwoven : if advisers fail to establish what it is that a client wants to know because of poor interviewing , then they will not be able to supply the correct information even if it is available . |
| 21 | So it was that a generation of highly educated women occupied their minds with Bowlby and Spock and The Joy Of Cooking and little else . |
| 22 | If Heydrich had a regret about life on earth — and he had never been heard to express one — it was that a day held merely twenty-four hours . |
| 23 | And so it was that a man who had tried his hand at a whole variety of working-class jobs but who was no friend of the labour unions could , as part of his episodic film Intolerance , quite effortlessly recreate a clash between workers and police that is so lifelike as to seem like a newsreel and to suggest that perhaps every subsequent labour riot followed its pattern . |
| 24 | Rain never knew how it was that a man who spoke no word of a foreign language could master the intricacies of ordering a favourite type of beer in any country on earth . |
| 25 | Lunch was taken on the terrace alone beneath the warming rays of the April sunshine , and after that she continued her exploration of the house , amazed at the number of rooms that were apparently shut up and wondering why it was that a man like Marc Alexander Vila would choose to live alone in this enormous and obviously expensive mausoleum . |
| 26 | During the long drawn out hostage crisis the American people had watched impotently , wondering how it was that a nation with the supposed military capability to wipe Russia off the map at the push of a button could do nothing . |
| 27 | The rush took me completely by surprise , and I think what contributed to it was that a lot of industry had closed down early , schools were closed , and many people had taken extended holiday . |