Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] it is that " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there is one overriding message that has been reinforced by the experience so far it is that the most productive approach is one that flows from an attitude of , and a commitment to , continuous improvement . |
| 2 | I wonder just how it is that the Daily Sport can advertise and sell Love Hearts , while youths who get caught selling counterfeit Es get arrested and charged with deception or ‘ going equipped to cheat ’ ? |
| 3 | It provides a healthy challenge to the virility of a believer 's conviction to see if he can say succinctly just why it is that he believes Christianity is true . |
| 4 | Indeed , need and dare allow us to see even more clearly how it is that the modals fail to constitute a before-position with respect to the event expressed by the infinitive . |
| 5 | We can now see clearly why it is that once great state dominations appear which have the means to minutely command and control the lives of their citizens , those citizens can relieve themselves of the discomfiting need to exercise personal self-restraint or economic forethought for the simple and adequate reason that the state now exercises these ungratifying functions for them . |
| 6 | If we could say ‘ I know ’ only when we could also say exhaustively how it is that we know , it would create just as much a problem for the sophisticated philosopher as for those of us who are simpler . |
| 7 | Now I know erm following a fairly recent er er er case in the house of lords that the courts are er entitled to rely on what ministers say in debate but perhaps the minister could er spell out a little bit more clearly the apparent discrepancy between what he said in his speech and what is on the face of these orders and indeed why it is that the orders in r relation to banking and financial services , adopts a different phraseology er to that used in the orders relating to insurance and building societies . |
| 8 | I have been asking myself again why it is that the UK continues to suffer worse swings of ‘ stop-go ’ economic cycles than any of our competitors , with more serious effects in particular on business confidence . |
| 9 | The Miller knows himself : He recognizes too how it is that that his tale may offend the Reeve , and responds to the Reeve in conciliatory terms : Most pertinently , he eschews the generalization of the fabliau image of the world : The Reeve , too , in his Prologue , speaks more in relative than in absolute terms . |