Example sentences of "it is that [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I write this I realize at last why it is that her face has kept coming to me in this room . |
| 2 | But , whatever it is that her flooding liquid pigment does , one thing it always seems to be bringing about in the beholder . |
| 3 | Rather , it is that its demise has again thrown the need for a trading market for the small and medium-sized growing company into the full glare of the spotlights . |
| 4 | She says that between three and four thousand people in the country have so far registered complaints about the drug with their solicitors — they will have to be examined before any action is taken to get expert advice on how probable it is that their problem was caused by the Myodil injections . |
| 5 | Search your pigeon-hole , staff room or wherever it is that your school sends its copies . |
| 6 | So it is that my magazine is being put into a state of hibernation . |
| 7 | The fact of it is that my five years are now up and hence my retirement is over . |
| 8 | How unlucky it is that my good master is not at hoe . |
| 9 | This caused disquiet amongst Colonial officials and prompted Creech Jones , the Colonial Secretary in the later years of the Labour government , to circulate a memorandum to the Cabinet in early 1947 in which he said : ‘ I know full well how important it is that our overseas payments should be kept as low as they possibly can be , but I can not believe that this justifies a course which is contrary to our declared policy in regard both to Colonial and to commercial matters and contrary also to the policy which has long been pursued by the Labour Party . ’ |
| 10 | This means that Locke has not only to substantiate the claim that all ideas are derived from experience , but also to explain how it is that our reason gets from those ideas to certain items of knowledge which others said were innate . |
| 11 | So the more conscious we are the less likely it is that our activities become habitual . |
| 12 | It is that our knowledge surely starts from what our five senses tell us and can extend beyond this direct experience only to generalizations of what we know by experience . |
| 13 | It is a research programme which sets out to show how it is that our beliefs about an external world , about science , about a past and a future , about other minds , etc. , can be justified on a base which is restricted to infallible beliefs about our sensory states . |
| 14 | Naipaul 's readers could well have become inclined to ask why it is that his novels seem to say that there is nothing to be done in , or with , the countries of their concern . |
| 15 | And the weakness of these works is not just that Hall can not integrate ‘ arty ’ steps into jazz without them looking like destitute cliches , it is that his dancers are not adequately trained to look comfortable in mainstream styles . |
| 16 | It may be one that is large and far-reaching or it may appear relatively small and trivial but … ( of ) special significance for the person who makes it is that his choice will help to determine the pattern of his unique development over time . |
| 17 | Roughly speaking , the lower the socioeconomic group of someone 's father , the more likely it is that his or her full-time education ended in school , rather than college or university . |