Example sentences of "it is [Wh adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is when the physical phenomenon of soil erosion affects people so that they have to respond and adapt their mode of life that it becomes also a social phenomenon . |
| 2 | And it is when the stillness comes — |
| 3 | It is when the noise becomes unbearable and we can no longer think rationally that we have to seek the aid of a psychologist . |
| 4 | Anyone who has been walking across grassland and has nearly trodden on a hare , will know what a shock it is when the animal suddenly leaps up and darts off . |
| 5 | It is not love when the concern is the fact that I am being inconvenienced , but it is when the concern is for the damage that is being done to my partner and our relationship . |
| 6 | But how much harder it is when the social calendar is full . |
| 7 | The only occasion when you wo n't get far without it is when the deceased is being sent abroad . |
| 8 | Finding a publisher is hard for all writers and we know from the letters and diaries of writers as important as Gerard Manley Hopkins , Joseph Conrad and Hermann Melville how painful it is when the writing will not come . |
| 9 | In this sense there is always a connection between value-standpoints and sociology , for it is when the focus on unhappiness , and its reduction , is lost that social scientists lose their way and become trapped in pseudo-scientific thinking . |
| 10 | This accords with common sense since if there is a defence to an unlawful demand the most appropriate time to raise it is when the demand is sought to be enforced by action . |
| 11 | It is when the Great Detective makes a jump out of such ideas that he solves the baffling mystery , that he sees , to quote a famous example from Poe , that the best place to hide a letter is in a letter-rack . |
| 12 | It is when the claim to neutrality is seen , as it must be , as a sham that damage is done to the judicial system . |
| 13 | Once again we see the Spirit is related securely to the person of Jesus , and it is when the Spirit enables a man to see who Jesus is and respond to him in allegiance that faith is born . |
| 14 | ‘ It is when the planks are firmly in place , but they have to be checked . |
| 15 | However , it is when the two heat sources are used together in combination that the true capabilities can be appreciated . |
| 16 | It is why the Commission has accurately described the Maastricht Treaty as an attempt to construct Europe ‘ on a unitary base ’ . |
| 17 | One day the settee is opposite the door , the next it is where the telly was before it was swapped round with the nest of tables . |
| 18 | To a certain extent this made economic and political sense : in economic terms it is where the council had most leverage and control , and in political terms it represented a move to a new base , one built on the strength of the white-collar and public sector unions in the changing economy and society of Sheffield . |
| 19 | However , it is where the emotional component predominates that psychiatrists have traditionally labelled the illness ‘ affective ’ , rather than ‘ schizophrenic ’ . |
| 20 | Remember what a slip stitch is , it is where the patterning needle does not knit . |
| 21 | It is where the renegades of our youth culture gravitate . |
| 22 | okay , it is where the trouser crease meets the line of the groin and it 's skin deep , okay , so you 'll pushing onto it you 'd probably have to put your two fingers and a pad and your knuckles right in there , alright and you 'll feel it yourself best when you 're lying down and your knee just up like that , that 's when you can feel it best because you can push in harder then , cos you 've relaxed your stomach and that 's another tip for putting pressure on it when you 've got somebody who needs that , you need to relax the stomach muscle , but you manage to put pressure up there okay ? |
| 23 | The second goal of fault-finding is also critical since it is where the fault-finder narrows down the area of search to , hopefully , one computer-controlled subsystem . |
| 24 | It is where the largest number of items in a sample comes to , whereas the average is obviously the sample multiplied by the number of items . |
| 25 | ‘ It is where the Christian martyrs met their deaths , and where wild animals and gladiators battled for the pleasure of the city 's populace . ’ |
| 26 | Briefly , it is how the composer , like the author of a sentence or of a line in a poem , groups his ‘ words ’ in order of importance so that they make sense . |
| 27 | It is how the facts are used that should form the touchstone of our discussion . |
| 28 | It is how the management employs those assets to the benefit of the whole that matters . |