Example sentences of "[is] [adv] that [pers pn] [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's mostly that I ca n't sleep . ’ |
| 2 | It 's only that I can not stand possessiveness , it diminishes people . ’ |
| 3 | " I hate to cut you short , " said Richard from the hatch , " it 's only that I can hardly expect my staff to be in time if I 'm late myself . " |
| 4 | The idea of the tour is so that they can actually er listen to it , but they can turn it off whenever they want and they can use their guide book to see what is in each room and if you look at the guidebook as we go round , you will find that that the things are illustrated , you know the pot . |
| 5 | What Hamilton could see was that the talents of Warner Bros had combined to produce a film that was not so much about the Legion as ‘ about the kind of short-sighted , uninformed and well-enough-meaning men who have to be given an understanding of what democracy really is so that they will not go on and on providing tools for such legions ’ . |
| 6 | I suspect this is so that we ca n't talk back or properly assess their charges or claims . |
| 7 | In fact , one of the reasons God is so concerned that we do not involve ourselves in premarital and extramarital relations is so that we will never feel we are competing against the skill and ability of another lover . |
| 8 | It 's so that I ca n't see his face , Merrill thought . |
| 9 | Their weakness is not that they will not commit themselves to God but that they do not commit themselves to anything . |
| 10 | Their problem is not that they could not take on this responsibility before but that they were not asked to . |
| 11 | What this tells us is not that we should not attempt serious drama work with them , but that we need to give particularly careful thought in our planning to the appropriateness of the material . |
| 12 | It is not that we can not remember characters ' names , but that minor characters are often not important enough to bother about . |
| 13 | When a person suffers from this lack of personal commitment , the problem is not that he can not genuinely believe something but that he will not genuinely believe anything . |
| 14 | My Dear Boy , my greatest fear is not that I shall never again touch you , but that when I return I shall no longer be able to hear your voice . |
| 15 | It is just that he will not apply it to future pension rights because he is not in the least interested in defending workers ' pension rights . |
| 16 | And often it 's not that they never had anywhere to live , it 's just that they could n't cope with the responsibilities and the isolation of living on their own . |
| 17 | it 's just that it would just that the time , sometimes you 've got to have things on time and some people do n't have . |
| 18 | ‘ It is n't that he has totally gone away , it 's just that I ca n't see him as I used to . ’ |
| 19 | Not that I want to look as if I shop at Next , or look cute , or anything , it 's just that I ca n't afford to dress the way I 'd like to . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's just that I ca n't understand French . |
| 21 | It 's not the buying them that 's cunning , it 's just that I ca n't help being grateful ( I did n't actually say I was grateful , but I was n't sharp ) , it 's that he presents them so humbly , with such an air of please-don't-thank-me and I-deserve-it-all . |
| 22 | It 's just that I ca n't help . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's just that I ca n't stand the slur on my grandmother 's memory . |
| 24 | It 's just that I ca n't bear to see someone like you , Ruth , made miserable so worthlessly , and until you get some feeling of respect for yourself you 're never going to snap out of it , and you 'll go on being used as a doormat . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's just … ’ she smiled tremulously at him through damp , spiky eyelashes ‘ … it 's just that I ca n't … |
| 26 | It 's just that I would n't consider it was right … fair … feeling as I do about … about another man . ’ |
| 27 | It 's just that I can actually hear it . |
| 28 | It 's just that I could n't take it . |
| 29 | It 's just that I could never remember it afterwards , and anyway everyone seemed to pronounce it differently . |
| 30 | It 's just that you wo n't |