Example sentences of "[verb] it is [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The evidence on which I base it is that , within three weeks of the White Paper being introduced in the middle of this year , there were 15 announcements of changes to the proposals now in the legislation . |
| 2 | Without for one moment implying any impropriety , this last episode demonstrates how deliciously appropriate it is that Mr Wyatt should subsequently have struck up such a warm friendship with the world 's foremost collector of air miles . |
| 3 | Why why do you feel it is that people are suspicious of their neighbours ? |
| 4 | The easy way to remember it is that for a ‘ lesser ’ number of degrees , you turn ‘ left ’ , e.g. turning from 350° to 320° is turning to a lesser number and therefore you turn left . |
| 5 | The way I would see it is that there is a need for a broad consensus between government , IDB , LEDU , DED and all the various government agencies and community groups , economists and experts and the people on the ground themselves , because I do n't think the government has it within their power to solve the problem and I do n't think experts have it within their power to solve the problem . |
| 6 | The main shift as he sees it is that the service has become cash limited overnight . |
| 7 | The reason they do not like it is that they are so sensitive about it . |
| 8 | To go back to ‘ Beowulf : the Monsters and the Critics ’ : if this makes one thing clear it is that the literary quality Tolkien valued above all was the ‘ impression of depth … effect of antiquity … illusion of historical truth and perspective ’ which he found in Beowulf , in the Aeneid , or for that matter in Macbeth , Sir Orfeo , or the Grimms ' Fairy Tales . |
| 9 | Perhaps the best way of describing it is that it will put you at peace with yourself — which is what is intended . |
| 10 | If parliamentary self-government is the essence of British liberty , the condition upon which we enjoy it is that the United Kingdom is politically distinct and separate . |
| 11 | In other words , the difference between ( i ) incitement and ( ii ) being a participant in a crime as one who has counselled or procured it is that in ( i ) the main crime has not been ( or need not have been ) committed by the person so incited , and in ( ii ) it has . |
| 12 | Likewise , it is submitted that no modern court would say as Sir George Jessell MR did in Printing and Numerical Registering Co v Sampson ( 1875 ) LR 19 Eq 462 : … if there is one thing which more than another public policy requires it is that men of full age and competent understanding shall have the utmost liberty of contracting , and that their contracts when entered into freely and voluntarily shall be held sacred and shall be enforced by courts of justice . |
| 13 | True it is that Ewan Beg thought he had killed his dallta — for I told him so . |
| 14 | True it is that ‘ a statement ’ by a person in response to a requirement under the section may only be used for one or other of the specified purposes , but there is no restriction upon the use by the prosecution of incriminating information or evidence obtained as a result of such a statement . |
| 15 | True it is that in a simple case the investigation of a suspect 's criminality may well terminate at the moment of charging , but often this will not be so . |
| 16 | ‘ True it is that we ai n't in the habit of entertaining the likes of you , sir , most of the gentry as stops here in Newark preferring to bait down Saracen 's Head with that there Mr Thompson , but — ’ |
| 17 | It will be B format at £5.99 on 23rd September , and the main reason I believe it is that it has a new hardback ( Big Hole and Baby Universes ) simultaneously . |
| 18 | The position was that the plaintiffs effectively retained possession of the surgery premises and the defendant er moved out of the premises and er went and found other surgery premises and er the position as I understand it is that he is carrying on his own practice today from other premises , the plaintiffs are such as now surviving , are still continue to practice from the former part of the premises . |
| 19 | Their justification for doing it is that it 's for this thing , this painting or whatever , and I always wonder if it could n't be more without all that . ’ |
| 20 | It would be tedious to list the types and colours of stone , ceramic etc. used at each site in Britain ; if any picture at all emerges it is that mosaicists made good with what was easily obtained , and that the types of stone used for various shades of colour are predictable and limited in number . |
| 21 | Why d why do you think why do you think it is that there was n't that motivation ? |
| 22 | Why do you think it is that erm that the reputation of the flats has been er I suppose gone off and I mean early on back in the early seventies , erm the flats were quite an attractive place to come to , it was n't even that easy to get on the flats . |
| 23 | Why do you think it is that that you get erm that you have got quite a few girls that become prostitutes , what do you think the reasons are for it ? |
| 24 | Why do you think it is that people need to do it ? |
| 25 | No , he 's not sure , he do n't think it is that h he 's he 's gon na cut the gas , he said it 's not right the er central heating pumps are well hot , he said it should n't be like that so he to there 's a little box up there he thinks it 's probably this box but he 's he 's trying to figure out what it is up there because he 's he 's just such amazed at price of pieces |
| 26 | What do you think it is that causes homelessness ? |
| 27 | It might therefore seem a rather odd choice as a label , but Wimsatt and Brooks 's reason for using it is that they view these analogical or metaphorical relationships as producing effects essentially similar to those for which the word irony is more commonly used , and which they also see as an important part of poetry . |
| 28 | Another way of putting it is that whereas structure denotes a relationship between the elements of anything , tension denotes our experience of structure . |
| 29 | Another way of putting it is that even though the academic community is founded on a culture of critical discourse ( see Chapter 7 ) , normally it gives little thought to the criteria by which its critical judgements come into play . |
| 30 | ‘ Maybe the best way of putting it is that if you were abroad and on the town , Con would find a licensed brothel where the girls all had health checks , while the riff-raff might sometimes take the risk of picking up a likely-looking tart in a bar . |