Example sentences of "it [is] [adv] [conj] [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 | ‘ I suppose it 's just because things are a bit dire on that front at present . |
| 5 | The unit should fit under any hood without cut outs and as it 's less than 12″ wide it will fit on the side or back of virtually any tank . |
| 6 | It 's not always that way , but we are absolutely sick and tired of it and it 's about and sisters , that whenever we come across it , we make sure that those people do n't continue that type of harassment . |
| 7 | It 's only and suggestions . |
| 8 | ‘ I think it 's good that men are now in this questioning mood , ’ she says , ‘ because it 's only when things are questioned that there 's any possibility of change . ’ |
| 9 | It 's only if jobs produced profit directly that they would consider workers deserve to be paid . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It would be wrong to conclude that it is simply because women live longer than men . |
| 12 | It is not that boys go out on a Saturday night looking for milk bottles or other things to smash . |
| 13 | It is not that women are no good at chemistry . |
| 14 | It is not that writers invaded universities . |
| 15 | It is not that parents occasionally , and doubtless understandably , have to switch off the seemingly inexhaustible stream of ‘ whys ’ . |
| 16 | It is not that students , or staff for that matter , lack ideas for what might be possible . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It is not that teachers in our primary schools dislike teaching bright children . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It is not that children of high intelligence are somehow debarred from having a rich and satisfying school life . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | It is not that cats do not enjoy all the aforementioned nocturnal pleasures , it is that nightlife is too dangerous for them . |
| 24 | It is not that librarians had no practice in the classification and cataloguing of non-book materials . |
| 25 | It is not that librarians did not know , nor that they did not care . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | In the 1980s , it is still true that males have higher mortality rates than females at all ages ( except possibly after reaching the age of 100 years : OPCS 1987 : 5 ) ; but the number of deaths in childhood and early adult life is now so small that it is not until individuals reach their late forties , that women actually outnumber men of the same birth cohort . |
| 29 | It is not because talismans are ‘ of the devil ’ that I reject them . |
| 30 | 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 . |