Example sentences of "[conj] it [be] [adv] that " in BNC.

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1 Well plus plus the fact that erm it 's not that you have n't got one , or it 's not that we 'd need you to drive it 's that you 're denying us the privilege of being able to send you .
2 It 's not really clear whether this is a symbiotic relationship of some kind , or it 's just that the Gobies find the corals a convenient place to sit .
3 So you can see what you go into the master bedroom there 's a man and a woman in bed , is n't it obvious in a second that it 's not that it 's Mr and Mrs ?
4 Er , one of the paradoxes of the modern era as er , pointed out by Tom Peters , not by me , one of the few things I do not claim original thought on , erm , is , is that it 's not that we , people think that we do n't have enough information at our fingertips and are constantly striving to gather more and more , the opposite is actually true .
5 It 's not like that it 's just that I think it 'll help you to write it down and to think about it and to talk , talk to Kelly about it .
6 But you 've got to remember that it 's now that the whole question of Walter Machin has come up again because of the new interest in him , and the republishing of the books and so on .
7 And I mean it was er I accept that it 's hardly that that Russia perhaps was intervening in the interests of er of of erm of of of of er Russian policy in that area .
8 ‘ They do say that it 's there that thy Robemaker has his Workshops .
9 I 'm sure that it 's there that the police will be best advised to make their inquiries .
10 I have been accused of favouring Transworld in the past , so I feel I must defend myself and say that it is not that I love Transworld so much as that I admire success .
11 That it is n't that you 've got up on the wrong side or eaten something which did n't agree with you or just need a few days ' rest .
12 Having said that , it is entirely possible that one is being hopelessly naïve and that it is simply that the AIDS test has replaced the screen test as the sine qua non for any ambitious ingénue .
13 Does my right hon. Friend accept that it is right that he should restate the Government 's commitment to their policy in Northern Ireland , based on the rule of law ?
14 Unfortunately the single-copy fallacy , the idea that it is enough that there should be one copy of any book in existence , does have support even within the British Library itself .
15 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 .
16 Let us pretend that it is only that Grainne is too far above me , and let us continue the pretence , for I do not think I can bear it any other way .
17 and I think we must recognise that it is only that many of the questions and questionnaire had they been displayed of what they wanted to propose .
18 I suppose I fancied him although I told myself that it was just that I felt sorry for him .
19 When I asked Roger Forster whether they had ever started a new congregation without a full-time worker he replied that it was not that they were in principle against it , but in practice they had not done so .
20 I thought that it was right that I should talk to you , try and build a better picture of Michael . ’
21 However , we believe that it was right that the statement should be made in the House , from which have come the decisions that , in our opinion , have done so much to encourage the IRA through the years .
22 It was only now that it was over that she realised quite how it had got to her .
23 Legend has it that it was here that Yusuf met his death beneath the hooves of his enemies , steeds ; here also that El Cid received a fatal wound .
24 One was large and rectangular ; Melissa guessed that it was here that Angy had kept the wooden block of kitchen knives that Lou had mentioned .
25 el-Kefevi ( followed by Ismail Belig ) adds the statement that Mehmed Sah was the first muderris at the Sultan medrese , which fact , if correct , would allow one to place Mehmed Sah 's appointment , and Fahreddin Acemi 's association with him , in the early 820s , since the available information indicates that it was then that the medrese was built .
26 In previous generations it was much less likely than it is now that grandparents would have lived to know their grandchildren as adults ( see chapters 2 and 3 ) .
27 Leeds is now the third largest city in England and the 20th in Europe , so it is right that it should have international ambitions .
28 So it is n't that she … objects to ? ’
29 America is the closest thing to a financial laboratory for these sorts of questions , so it is there that most of the answers should be sought .
30 The ancient art of batik , a form of resist dyeing , has been perfected over centuries on the Indonesian island of Java , so it was there that Angela Newport went to learn the technique .
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