Example sentences of "that it is [pron] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this country , it is often assumed that teachers are a law unto themselves once they are inside the classroom and that it is their professional training and sense of professional responsibility that are the chief influences on their practice . |
| 2 | The girls insist that it is their fundamental right to wear their scarves at all times , just as some of their fellow students wear skullcaps or the cross . |
| 3 | They will inevitably feel that it is their own fault — that they are in some way ‘ bad ’ or deserving of such treatment . |
| 4 | I shall argue that it is their particular use of rhetoric that permits this . |
| 5 | Nevertheless we shall see that it is even more obviously true of Attica than of Sparta that it is her physical environment which determines her history . |
| 6 | I doubt that it is his real name . ’ |
| 7 | But when he finds there the charming young cabaret singer , Lola , he decides that it is his moral duty to save her … by marriage ! |
| 8 | Of course the sceptics and the doubters will sneer at the influence on the affair exercised by Dicky saying that the former route was unsuitable and geographically unstable , and they will point out that such conditions have been overcome in other parts , for example , the West Highland , the Liverpool and Manchester and the Settle and Carlisle , but then those conversant with Dicky o' Tunstead will continue to believe that it is his malign influence which kept the rails away from Tunstead Farm . |
| 9 | For a split second , I have sometimes failed to recognize that it is my own face that is being reflected back at me . |
| 10 | Will he confirm that it is our top priority to get back to the basics in education and to sweep away the leftist progressive teaching methods that , having been put to the test , have failed ? |
| 11 | The incarnational model of Mary and Jesus stresses that it is our very weakness which may become a tool for the Kingdom . |
| 12 | I agree with the statement but I am not sure that it is our particular job to convey this message . |