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

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1 Perhaps it is simply that you do not have the courage to do so .
2 Perhaps it is right that the official institutions of a community should express moral judgements on behalf of its law-abiding members — but why should it have to take form of punishment ?
3 So it was when my life began so it is now that I am a man .
4 Surely it is right that the House should be able to question the shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer about his apparent differences of opinion with his hon. Friend the Member for Derby , South ( Mrs. Beckett ) .
5 Or maybe it is simply that a second to them is a vastly longer subjective experience of time than it is to us and other creatures , possessed of a slower metabolic rate .
6 Thus the implication is that if the State Department issues a mild statement in response to an issue which is provoking inflammatory articles and speeches in the press and Congress ( for example , over the Agrarian Reform Law ) , then it is simply that the government is hiding its ’ real' intentions in order to deceive .
7 If the private world is where we find ourselves , then it is here that we must first come together .
8 All my life , he wrote , I have been preparing myself for this moment , but if I have prepared myself correctly then it is so that when the moment came I should not be encumbered with the sensation of having waited for it all my life , for such a sensation , wrote Harsnet , is too heavy a burden for anyone to carry .
9 Yet it is here that we have to distinguish most clearly between a technical invention and a technology , and then further between a technology and its actual or possible social relations .
10 Certainly it is so that more financial work is being brought in-house .
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