Example sentences of "and [pers pn] is [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 31 | And it is just that : a point of view , a vision , put forward through a fine prose style , that gives the work of Frazer a position above that of other scholars of equal erudition and perhaps greater ingenuity , and which gives him an inevitable and growing influence over the contemporary mind . |
| 32 | It is described as a comic love story for clumsy people , and it is just that : endearing , touching , and very , very funny . |
| 33 | ‘ And it is there that you also are staying ? ’ |
| 34 | Denmark is their other northern commitment , and it is there that 2 RRP found itself on 30 June 1989 . |
| 35 | But the plot takes us back to Paris and its police for the denouement of the story , and it is there that the real and menacing power is seen to reside . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | It is there , above all , that we see these independent intellectual capacities encouraged , and it is there that the gaze of the state is felt most keenly . |
| 38 | This act of stealth and deceit is far from straightforward , and it is now that we begin to see some of the more subtle and complex adaptations of the cuckoo to its parasitic way of life . |
| 39 | They appear in vast numbers in the Antarctic Ocean particularly in summer ( they depend for food upon the blooms of phytoplankton ) and it is then that whales like the blue migrate towards the pole to feed . |
| 40 | Communication also suffers when people make false assumptions about shared schemata , and it is then that they cease to ‘ be clear ’ . |
| 41 | In the autumn , the sweeping tracts of it on the lower , treeless hillsides are the colour of rust , and it is then that it is scythed down , to provide bedding for the animals during the winter and , once suitably impregnated , fertilizer for the fields the following spring — in a neat ecological cycle . |
| 42 | But one day your Line will divide , and it is then that the magical Beastblood will fade , and you will find you can no longer strengthen it by lying with the creatures of the forest . |
| 43 | Feelings and emotions are examined in depth , and it is then that pupils can be seen struggling to come to terms with right and wrong . |
| 44 | The mating of these butterflies involves joining hooks and claspers , and it is though that the eye-spots aid this rather complicated sexual manoeuvre . |
| 45 | This was the language of the Conservative Right , and it is seldom that it synchronizes with the tenets of the reformist Left . |