Example sentences of "it is [adv] that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is , our problem is not one of vicarious liability , of finding some reason why a shareholder should share some other person 's or group 's primary responsibility ; it is rather that we can find no one else who is primarily responsible and in whose responsibility he might share . |
| 2 | It is rather that he realigns fantasy and fact by using a set of ready-made and entirely artificial rules governing talking animals to explore the workings of a no less unnatural , controlled and rigidly inhuman system . |
| 3 | It is rather that there is a fundamental difference in the distribution of syntactic features between the two modes . |
| 4 | It is simply that one is a more likely response for the middle-class housewife and one is more likely for her working-class sister . |
| 5 | For me , at least — and I think for most people who travel around this country for pleasure , that is , to see things — it is simply that one gets a greater depth of pleasure out of knowing the anatomy of a town and why it takes that particular form and not just its superficial features , however attractive they may be individually . |
| 6 | It is simply that their numbers were fewer and hence their overall impact appears less . |
| 7 | It is not repentance ; it is simply that they are scared for their skins and wish to save parliamentary seats in the general election . |
| 8 | ‘ Clearly the reason they claim to have burnt it is simply that they realize it would be too risky to let us examine it . ’ |
| 9 | This does not mean , however , that Elizabeth has no freedom of action at all ; it is simply that her actions must stay well within the bounds that society has placed on her . |
| 10 | Yet , much that they wrote then resonates as much today : it is simply that we do not comprehend it . |
| 11 | It is not that they are not capable of competing ; it is simply that there have been no great black performers in these areas in history ( due to lack of opportunities and facilities ) and no tradition exists . |
| 12 | Perhaps it is simply that you do not have the courage to do so . |
| 13 | It is simply that he is a married man , around 30 , with wife and children , a car , a mortgage ( ? ) etc. , etc . |
| 14 | It is simply that I was brought up in the East of Scotland and have lived in places whither the Orangemen walketh not , neither in triumph nor provocation . |
| 15 | ‘ It is simply that I have different ideas than the gentlemen who give places to men … . ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ It is simply that I expected better service , ’ he snapped . |
| 17 | It is simply that it left us stranded . |
| 18 | If this book has a significant weakness , it is simply that it takes three chapters to get into its stride . |
| 19 | Similarly , C. S. Lewis 's The Allegory of Love is praised by Kathleen Tillotson for charting the nature and evolution of two " principles " , or fundamental movements of the human mind — romantic love and allegory : " It is rarely that we meet with a work of literary criticism of such manifest and general importance as this . " |
| 20 | It is not that something , anything whatever , would have been different before that instant if the bar had not appeared . |
| 21 | It is not that they showed no mercy on the streets of Jericho . |
| 22 | It is not that they are extreme , or personally off-putting . |
| 23 | It is not that they are not used : vitamins are prescribed and bought on a massive scale for people without the slightest hint of a deficiency , and ginseng is now sold in chemists and health-food shops in the UK to the tune of no less than £7 million a year . |
| 24 | It is not that they are too slow to avoid being hit , but that they simply do not hear the cars speeding towards them . |
| 25 | It is not that they are less likely to be murdered , raped , robbed , or assaulted — although the best scientific evidence based on victimization surveys shows this to be true ( Hindelang , Gottfredson , and Garofalo 1978 ) — but that in the criminal law , definitions of murder , rape , robbery , assault , theft , and other serious crimes are so constructed as to exclude many similar , and in important respects , identical acts , and these are just the acts likely to be committed more frequently by powerful individuals . |
| 26 | It is not that they are not capable of competing ; it is simply that there have been no great black performers in these areas in history ( due to lack of opportunities and facilities ) and no tradition exists . |
| 27 | It is not that they are facts in the absolute . |
| 28 | It is not that we can not remember characters ' names , but that minor characters are often not important enough to bother about . |
| 29 | ‘ It is not that we do n't like banks , just , well , I 've never even had a personal overdraft . ’ |
| 30 | It is not that we are afraid to do so but simply that the occasion never really arises . |