Example sentences of "it is [adv] that [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is rather that the whole point of a national curriculum will be lost if it can not be assumed that children at 11 will be ready for whatever is the generally agreed content of the first year at secondary school . |
| 2 | It is simply that a permissive culture which makes increasingly fewer demands on the egos and superegos of its citizens where self-restraint , postponement of gratification and drive-inhibition in general are concerned must — unless it is to dissolve in anarchy — abrogate those restraining , controlling and inhibiting functions to itself and to its agencies of social control . |
| 3 | It is simply that the Irish government want to achieve it by peaceful means , and the IRA otherwise . ’ |
| 4 | It is simply that the necessary distinctions are not to be found at the level of categorical separation but rather at the level where they are in fact produced , which is that of both general and specific cultural and social orders . |
| 5 | Now I doubt if any modern scientist really believes that mind " and " matter " are distinguishable in this simple dualistic way ; it is simply that the experimental research worker , in his laboratory , is bound , by the context of his work , to act as if he believed it . |
| 6 | Perhaps it is right that the official institutions of a community should express moral judgements on behalf of its law-abiding members — but why should it have to take form of punishment ? |
| 7 | But for a handful of obvious reasons , Lewis does not draw a picture of ‘ the whole man ’ in Surprised by Joy It is partly that a natural reticence made him draw a veil over the two greatest facts of his emotional history : his relationships with his father and Mrs Moore . |
| 8 | It is here that a massive scoreboard confronts the players , the numbers changed slowly , tantalisingly , by hand . |
| 9 | It is here that a true designing system will be based and will grow from an understanding of the conceptual activities , how they are developed and controlled . |
| 10 | It is here that an individual anthropomorphic interpretation of each animal enters the process and overlays generalised documentation . |
| 11 | It is here that an anthropological observing participation comes into its own , for in living with the semantics of the system the analyst has the potential to undertake a rarely used method of social research . |
| 12 | It is here that the visual cat and mouse game in nature becomes so fascinating lending itself to multifold design possibilities . |
| 13 | It is here that the ingenious suggestion of Finsinger and Vogelsang ( 1981 ) comes in , to provide what might be called an almost ideal constraint . |
| 14 | It is here that the strange , but extraordinarily useful design of the BN3 scores . |
| 15 | Bordered by desert , the Mediterranean and the Red Sea , this densely populated country is concentrated along the Nile , away from the blistering heat of the hinterland , and it is here that the great monuments to the country 's past civilisation lie . |
| 16 | It is here that the sacred mysteries of Osiris 's resurrection were celebrated . |
| 17 | It is here that the rich and super-rich moor their magnificent multi-million pound floating palaces and slip ashore for a glass of bubbly or two . |
| 18 | Adjusting the output of existing products and rapidly expanding the share of new ones , requires flexibility in the labour market and it is here that the Japanese have even bigger advantages . |
| 19 | It is here that the dauntless cavalrymen of Ellyrion rest when they return from their long sweeps through their embattled land . |
| 20 | It is here that the various valves , heaters etc. , comprising the Wolverton system of steam heating are manufactured , and all the stock of the Company is rapidly being fitted with this patent arrangement . |
| 21 | It is here that the endless varied reactions of individuals make the task of caring for old people so fascinating and so complex . |
| 22 | It is here that the contradictory character of the inner city assumes such significance . |
| 23 | But it is here that the long-standing personal relationship between borrower and lender allows scope for abuse . |
| 24 | Abutting the Skeleton Coast , that legendary graveyard of mariners and ships , it is here that the last of the world 's black rhino range free , while galloping hyenas and lunging kudu buck comprise the main traffic hazards . |
| 25 | It is here that the Old World 's finest wizards learn their art , and where the Empire 's deadly Battle Wizards are trained . |
| 26 | It is possibly that the judging system in Australia , where almost all judges are all-rounders and are passed to judge at group level , has not helped the development of type in Australia . |
| 27 | We assume that it is enough that the new way will prove better than the old way once it has been tried for some time . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The West Bank terminal was again the focus of job losses yesterday because it is there that the greatest loss of business has occurred . |
| 30 | A sizeable public proves faithful : it is there that the large nineteenth-century operas are given ; it has been christened in Berlioz 's name and inaugurated with a production of Les huguenots . |