Example sentences of "it [be] [that] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could it be that 't is not the younger prince who has stolen her heart ? |
| 2 | Could it be that it might shake up the cosy , old fashioned world of the LTA ? |
| 3 | told me that it 's that it 's Sacred Heart . |
| 4 | But it 's that It Well not not entirely |
| 5 | ‘ It 's that it does n't suit you . |
| 6 | And course we 're doing a lot of counting today this wrist is a you know I do n't mind that you see what did that wrist was that elbow I had to have a second operation on it , in the arm up here because er I had to have some bone taken away in the elbow course it stretched guiders but they also erm disturbed the wrist joint because it was in plaster like that stretched round and disturbed the wrist joint and I ke it 's it weakened it and it 's only just it 's only just this what last nine months that it 's that it 's really started to effect this but I know what it is that 's because I keep going out doing the odd jobs |
| 7 | With my leg , it 's that it there 's no |
| 8 | A brick , it 's that it 's wood , it 's wood wood , would like to sort of feel it ? |
| 9 | No , but she has got like , it 's that it 's dark ginger . |
| 10 | Not you , it 's that it 's , it 's been on show . |
| 11 | If the glass has any virtue at all , he wrote , it is that it refuses to pretend . |
| 12 | It is an imaginative use of the word , but what is significant about it is that it reappears in that sense in only one other place in the Old Testament , in the passage immediately preceding God 's appearance on Sinai . |
| 13 | One argument sometimes raised against it is that it would lead to plea-bargaining , and thus to offenders escaping with lesser convictions and lesser sentences . |
| 14 | Their justification for doing it is that it 's for this thing , this painting or whatever , and I always wonder if it could n't be more without all that . ’ |
| 15 | Whatever it 's called , though , one of the most gloomy facts about it is that it now spends more on weapons than on health and education put together |
| 16 | For our purposes , what matters about it is that it is an all-or-none signal , with an amplitude that does not attenuate as it travels along the axon . |
| 17 | THE extraordinary thing about Laura Ashley is not that it has been dragged back from the financial brink ; it is that it was ever pushed there in the first place . |
| 18 | There seems to be no particular difficulty with exigo , unless it is that it takes the form not of a request ( like the wordings in Gaius ) but of an instruction . |
| 19 | If I have any criticisms of this section it is that it underestimates the difficulties of writing software and ignores the influence the historical development of computing has on the acceptance of new ideas ( what Seymour Papert calls the QWERTY phenomenon ) . |
| 20 | The only serious objection to it is that it must suffer badly from the cold and , in its country of origin at least , it must spend the whole of the winter either indoors or in a man-made coat . |
| 21 | The fear for it is that it could easily be hurt without complaining and could suffer at the hands of careless children who would treat it too much like its namesake . |
| 22 | The only interesting thing about it is that it happened at all . |
| 23 | If the painting says anything , it is that it is the innocents , the children who suffer . |
| 24 | A Private Bill proposal almost invariably emanates from the person or organisation in whose interest it is that it should be promoted . |
| 25 | And what 's nice about it is that it tracks better than most . |
| 26 | If the painting says anything , it is that it is the innocents , the children who suffer . |
| 27 | The whole thing takes around 12 days to complete and takes in all the best Lakeland peaks , but the beauty of it is that it can be divided into any number of day sections and there 's always a lowland alternative route in case the weather is really awful on the tops . |
| 28 | It will be B format at £5.99 on 23rd September , and the main reason I believe it is that it has a new hardback ( Big Hole and Baby Universes ) simultaneously . |
| 29 | The more we anticipate the fear reaction the more likely it is that it will occur . |
| 30 | ‘ If there was a problem with this piece it is that it is not unique ’ , said Millerand . |