Example sentences of "it is [adv] that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is rather that the whole point of a national curriculum will be lost if it can not be assumed that children at 11 will be ready for whatever is the generally agreed content of the first year at secondary school . |
| 2 | It is rather that the idea and ideal is always likely to function as a corrective to complacency rather than as a prop to It . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It is simply that a feature , which seemed prominent in the stereotype , may appear insignificant in the performance , and vice versa . |
| 5 | It is simply that a permissive culture which makes increasingly fewer demands on the egos and superegos of its citizens where self-restraint , postponement of gratification and drive-inhibition in general are concerned must — unless it is to dissolve in anarchy — abrogate those restraining , controlling and inhibiting functions to itself and to its agencies of social control . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It is simply that the type is more or less stable , established by convention , whereas the token is not since it is conditioned by context . |
| 8 | It is simply that the most plausible stories now available about that evolution , including its very recent date and also certain considerations about the physical characteristics of the species , suggests that human beings are to some degree a mess , and that the rapid and immense development of symbolic and cultural capacities has left man as a being for which no form of life is likely to prove entirely satisfactory , either individually or socially . |
| 9 | It is simply that the Irish government want to achieve it by peaceful means , and the IRA otherwise . ’ |
| 10 | It is simply that the necessary distinctions are not to be found at the level of categorical separation but rather at the level where they are in fact produced , which is that of both general and specific cultural and social orders . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Now I doubt if any modern scientist really believes that mind " and " matter " are distinguishable in this simple dualistic way ; it is simply that the experimental research worker , in his laboratory , is bound , by the context of his work , to act as if he believed it . |
| 13 | It is not that a major shift is suddenly taking place , although the stock market crash of October 1987 did make people feel as if the ground was unexpectedly moving beneath them . |
| 14 | ‘ It is not that the Canadians have deserted the railways , ’ says Roy Jamieson , their policy officer , ‘ the railways have deserted Canada . ’ |
| 15 | It is not that the coin is of a fixed weight , since lumps of bullion can and often are produced to a specific weight standard . |
| 16 | It is not that the Bosox are chronically hapless in the manner of the Chicago Cubs or the Seattle Mariners . |
| 17 | This would be represented in the diagram by moving from point A to point C. The converse is true because if a school loses pupils ( represented by moving from point A to point B ) it is not that the school spends any more on fixed costs but because of the reduction in pupils and hence funding , fixed costs take a larger proportion of the available budget . |
| 18 | It is not that the arbitrator 's word is an absolute reason which has to be obeyed come what may . |
| 19 | It is not that the law claims that one ought to obey the law come what may . |
| 20 | It is not that the cells die because they are sick or somehow abnormal — dying is part of their programmed development . |
| 21 | It is not that the Sergeant really objects to the constable having a legitimate excuse for being late , but it is because he too has to satisfy his superior officers that his omission to visit all the constables regularly is due to efficient Police duty . |
| 22 | It is not that the questioners are unintelligent , but rather that they are uninformed — and , after all , as science writers information is our business . |
| 23 | It is not that the outlawing of all war apart from the overwhelming necessities of self-defence is unrealistic and therefore inevitably unefficacious as a means for controlling force , but rather that it runs counter to the sort of moral consensus on which the ethical authority of international law could be based . |
| 24 | It is not that the interventions were no good . |
| 25 | As regards the Dinka , he suggests that it may be possible to persuade users of the language to reply to questions about the mind — body dichotomy : it is not that the language is incapable , at a formal level , of making such a distinction , but that such usage would be unrepresentative in cultural terms . |
| 26 | It is not that the question of the ordination of women is being considered for the first time in our day ! |
| 27 | It is not that the nature of the sensation can create a rule ; the rule creates a nature for the sensation , by enabling us to conceive of ways in which this sensation might resemble others . |
| 28 | It is not that the information in the second version is not true , but rather that it is assumed — and that the witness can assume it is assumed . |
| 29 | It is not that the advocates of these approaches to the curriculum take different views of the nature of society , but that they fundamentally differ regarding the purposes of education . |
| 30 | It is not that the expansion of the universe causes disorder to increase . |