Example sentences of "is [adv] that the [noun] " in BNC.

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31 It is just that the structure of the viral RNA happens to be such that it makes cellular machinery chum out copies of itself .
32 It is just that the rules are different .
33 It is just that the type of early-warning signals just discussed will indicate whether the expected improvement in competitive strength and the projected cash flows are likely to be achievable .
34 It is just that the world automatically tends to become full of those varieties of clay ( or DNA ) that happen to have properties that make them persist and spread themselves about .
35 ‘ 'T IS just that the town is no place for a lady at this time .
36 According to section 40(1) , the court or the comptroller must be satisfied that ‘ the patent is ( having regard among other things to the size and nature of the employer 's undertaking ) of outstanding benefit to the employer and that by reason of those facts it is just that the employee should be awarded compensation to be paid by the employer ’ .
37 Section 40(1) permits the court only to award compensation on an application made by the employee which inter alia establishes that the latter made the patented invention which is of outstanding benefit to the employer and that ‘ by reason of those facts it is just that the employee should be awarded compensation ’ .
38 The fear is always that the outside will be presented with the chance to gain knowledge and power at the expense of the institution ; although this is often only obliquely implied :
39 The problem is still that the location of beginnings and ends of words are never certain .
40 It would seem that the consensus of legal opinion , at least in Britain , is still that the position has not yet been reached where the British Parliament would be constitutionally prohibited from severing or amending Britain 's commitment to the Treaty of Rome — though that position is now perilously close .
41 I am bound to say My Lords that my own view is still that the size within the limits laid down by statute with a minimum of sixteen or eighteen and maximum of twenty-four would best be determined locally and if we 're not going in for a national police force , I still ca n't see what it has to do with the Secretary of State and why the Home Office should be settling the size of forty-three or so police authorities .
42 This is not to say that Hewison denies outright the possibility of a career — his concentration throughout the book on the films of Derek Jarman speaks otherwise — it is more that the pessimism of his viewpoint stops him from looking for them .
43 The most important change in the pattern of use of peptic ulcer drugs ( especially H 2 -receptor blockers ) is probably that the drugs are increasingly being used to treat non-ulcer dyspepsia and other unspecific gastrointestinal discomfort for which H 2 -receptor blockers are of little value .
44 The most plausible explanation of the demand for the law of Winchester is probably that the rebels accepted the 1285 Statute of Winchester , which could be interpreted as giving all adult males the right to bear arms .
45 The reason for this is probably that the fields are situated on top of upthrown fault blocks .
46 It is probably that the Lads originated from France , arriving as settlers after the Norman invasion .
47 It is partly that the teachers were asking for a depth of cataloguing , a level of retrieval , that is very expensive .
48 The answer is partly that the vote in Rhineland-Palatinate , which lies just below Bonn , is now out of the way ; partly that he may regain some of his lost esteem in eastern Germany , where voters are heavily for Berlin ; but not least that Mr Kohl has almost always come back fighting after getting a slap in the face .
49 He does n't actually use the words but his philosophy is clearly that the New Zealand sojourn may have been the darkest hour but that the darkest hours comes before the dawning of a new day .
50 In other respects , the principle is clearly that the assets should be divided fairly between the two parties .
51 The point is also that the raising of children is work .
52 It is also that the perspectives necessarily adopted by very different interest groups , some of which we have tried to reproduce here , will contain a degree of indeterminacy of translation between themselves .
53 But it is also that the worlds which Burrows evokes are very intimate and very enclosed .
54 The theory is also that the regions might be able to bypass the National Government and deal directly with regions of Europe .
55 The point is now that the individual comes to fear wanting even to relate because the relationship itself might be destroyed .
56 It is now that the band requires an accountant .
57 There 's much that makes sense ; there 's much that is thought-provoking , even if the thought it provokes is often that the authors are off their trolley ( 'be alert to the strange fact that the end of each century divisible by five has witnessed a major transition in Western civilisation ’ ) .
58 The mating of these butterflies involves joining hooks and claspers , and it is though that the eye-spots aid this rather complicated sexual manoeuvre .
59 It is here that the ability of banks to pull off mergers successfully is most at question .
60 It is here that the Germans have done so much pioneer work , and indeed the whole tendency of their art historical studies has been to regard works of art almost entirely from a chronological point of view , as coefficients of a time sequence , without reference to their aesthetic significance .
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