Example sentences of "it [be] that [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Today we were close enough to the front of the plane to have a newspaper in English , and not have to settle for one printed in a strange dialect of Latvian ( or whatever it is that they use for those that are always left at the end ) .
2 I mean we can Toyota can produce , you know , sufficient Corollas or whatever it is that they make at Derby erm , to sat to satisfy the whole of the world market for that particular car , just from one plant .
3 But the main thing that came out of it is that they need from us er the client reports .
4 Equally , the discomfort associated with gonorrhoea is usually of a greater order , and men who have suffered repeated attacks of both infections can usually tell which infection it is that they have on any given occasion .
5 Is it possible to define what it is that they have in common ?
6 It is that we tend to be left with an RE which effectively has lost its " R " .
7 Well , we do see a good deal of what is around us and not simply whatever it is that we happen to be staring at .
8 If the encyclopaedia has a weakness it is that it sits on the fence on controversial issues .
9 The only interesting thing about it is that it happened at all .
10 So can you give me a use of cast iron which ha one of the effects of it is that it relies on the occasional lubricating properties of the graphite in the iron ?
11 The only good thing about it is that it lasts for six months , then immunity is acquired . ’
12 But of course the thing about it is that it works for any shape .
13 It is an imaginative use of the word , but what is significant about it is that it reappears in that sense in only one other place in the Old Testament , in the passage immediately preceding God 's appearance on Sinai .
14 I 'll ask Carolyn what it is that she uses on hers because hers gets rid of the weeds as well .
15 Could you now tell us what it is that you knew about Mr ?
16 ‘ I wonder why it is that you object to being laughed at by me , when you invite laughter in your stage show ? ’
17 Thus an instantaneous influence propagates from A to B whose effect depends radically upon exactly what it is that I measure on A.
18 Sometimes we will be going upstairs to get something but , by the time we are there , we have forgotten what it was that we went for .
19 I chose residential care and so it was that I came to Le Court In September 1977 .
20 I tried to explain why it was that I went into the bushes , tried to make it sound reasonable . ’
21 So it was that I lay in honeycombs of tiny compartments , stacked into loose piles and sheaves with onion-skin leaves of paper .
22 so it was n't the fact I was trying to lose too much speed , it was that I changed into first and did n't have
23 And thus it was that she came to be , that February evening , standing at the top of the tower block staircase , leaning against the wall and panting a little from her climb , pausing for a moment and thinking gloomy thoughts about life and death .
24 And thus it was that she came to be , on that February evening , poised at the very crown of the hill in Kensington Gardens , looking down the hill , with her back to Bayswater and home and trembling with the fear that she had at last grown up .
25 Do n't you know what it was that you came for ? ’
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