Example sentences of "it is [adv] that [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My hon. Friend the Member for Dagenham ( Mr. Gould ) corrects me : it is rather that Brian Walden will visit the Secretary of State for lunch and take the cameras with him . |
| 2 | At the same time the kairos approach apparently allows it to be said that the past has not been at fault ; it is simply that God moves with humanity into a new age . |
| 3 | Similarly , it is inconceivably that Mrs Thatcher would have succeeded in the American context . |
| 4 | The Manor is sited in pleasantly wooden grounds and it is here that Alford truly comes to life on Spring and August Bank Holiday weekends . |
| 5 | It is here that Duval-Leroy , supplier of Sainsbury 's Champagne for the last 14 years , has its headquarters . |
| 6 | It is here that Tricia loves to entertain and eat out when the weather 's right . |
| 7 | It is here that William the Conqueror is said to have bribed two friars to help him gain access to the City of York after he had besieged it unsuccessfully . |
| 8 | If anywhere , it is here that Potter 's inexperience shows . |
| 9 | It is here that Bartimaeus , a blind beggar sitting by the side of the road , cried out to be cured of his blindness . |
| 10 | It is here that Coetzee 's work suffers from the lack of a more ambitious comparative framework , Coetzee 's work on the Conservative leagues is similar to Geoffrey Eley 's analysis of the German ‘ radical right ’ before 1914 . |
| 11 | It is here that John Bell , a theorist at CERN , Europe 's centre for nuclear research , has made a very valuable contribution . |
| 12 | The ‘ Second ’ Prokofiev Sonata comes first on the disc — in its original guide as a flute sonata it dies predate the First Sonata — and it is here that Hardy and Devos really distinguish themselves . |
| 13 | But above all it is there that René Jacobs 's enthusiastic reconstructions of Monteverdi 's dramatic works have seen the light of day . |
| 14 | Crow Road is also a dingily respectable thoroughfare in Glasgow , and it is there that Prentice beds his uncle 's former lover , his own ‘ Aunty ’ Janice . |
| 15 | It is there that Mr Kohl 's fine political antennae could get the worse of him . |
| 16 | Trent is not alone among regions ; it is merely that Trent does not conceal its statistics . |
| 17 | It is then that Tara will belong to the Humans . ’ |
| 18 | It is then that Ahn stepped forward to protect me . |
| 19 | Let us pretend that it is only that Grainne is too far above me , and let us continue the pretence , for I do not think I can bear it any other way . |
| 20 | To repeat , the association between homosexuality and the sexual lite of a woman is not necessarily insulting to either ; it is only that Mailer 's denigrating version of it forewarns of the crassness of the version of sexual difference which constitutes both the origin and horizon of his vision , and once again indicates an intense apprehensiveness in the face of imagined male passivity , and the way it is oft en conceived in terms of a denigrated and denigrating femininity at once utterly alien to yet strangely inherent within the male . |