Example sentences of "it is that [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is that everybody understands the idea of having diarrhoea and it is not pleasant , but you do not die from it . |
| 2 | You , you ha you establish a rapport of listening for a little while to whatever it is that they 've got to say , and their troubles and their anxieties and I was n't happy that |
| 3 | Today we were close enough to the front of the plane to have a newspaper in English , and not have to settle for one printed in a strange dialect of Latvian ( or whatever it is that they use for those that are always left at the end ) . |
| 4 | The only really naff thing about it is that they serve John Smith 's bitter , but their Guinness was great , so no probs . |
| 5 | I mean we can Toyota can produce , you know , sufficient Corollas or whatever it is that they make at Derby erm , to sat to satisfy the whole of the world market for that particular car , just from one plant . |
| 6 | However desirable it is that they receive training , many do not see it as a practical proposition . |
| 7 | But whatever it is that they seek , this Chinese martial art will , somewhere along the road of disciplined training , provide it . |
| 8 | It is not that people need to change or be ‘ cured ’ ; it is that they need to pursue their thoughts to their logical conclusion and from there make decisions on the basis of what they have discovered about themselves . |
| 9 | But the main thing that came out of it is that they need from us er the client reports . |
| 10 | Yeah find out , I mean exactly sort of trying to find out exactly what it is that they want to think about , suggest , you know |
| 11 | Er the goods that what , not goods that we want to give them like junk food and ludicrous fashions , to find out what it is that they want this of equipment and no , and do n't forget the know-how , I mean we are , we have a hell of a Know-how in this country which is not being used . |
| 12 | It is not that academic critics make a conscious effort to imitate their colleagues in the sciences , it is that they have come to adopt their concept of knowledge , and its professional servicing and supportive structures . |
| 13 | Equally , the discomfort associated with gonorrhoea is usually of a greater order , and men who have suffered repeated attacks of both infections can usually tell which infection it is that they have on any given occasion . |
| 14 | Is it possible to define what it is that they have in common ? |
| 15 | If there is any difference , it is that they have now taken over all the station and the upper classes have generally disappeared . |
| 16 | Now , it is that they have no need to do anything so rash . |
| 17 | It might therefore seem a rather odd choice as a label , but Wimsatt and Brooks 's reason for using it is that they view these analogical or metaphorical relationships as producing effects essentially similar to those for which the word irony is more commonly used , and which they also see as an important part of poetry . |
| 18 | This objection helps to reveal why it is that we regard a hierarchical classification as natural . |
| 19 | It is also said that he leaves the defence undermanned , but neither charge was proved on Saturday as Barcelona rode adversity in an absorbing match that emphasised , as one knew it would , how hurried and imprecise so much of the British game has become and how necessary it is that we cherish such exceptions as Liverpool , Norwich and Nottingham Forest if the art is not essentially to be driven out . |
| 20 | It is that we tend to be left with an RE which effectively has lost its " R " . |
| 21 | They were looking for the principles of organisation , how it is that we organise things like dots into a meaningful whole Why is it that we tend to see two lines crossing in the middle rather one two than two V's ? |
| 22 | We do not mean merely freedom to do as we like irrespectively of what it is that we like . |
| 23 | Could I just start with the white paper on community care funding because I think , as he said in the introduction , it is a complex subject , erm , and it does involve a lengthy transition period , and therefore in terms of its understanding , I think it 's important that members are aware both how the money is coming to us , broadly what we 're doing with it , and , and how it is that we 've reached the conclusion that there 's a great under-funding in the , in the present proposals . |
| 24 | That 's how , you know , stupid it is that we 've got all these talented riders and we ca n't use any of them . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Thus it is that we know as much as we do about the Orynthia and her voyages in the late 1830s . |
| 27 | This is why all of us will doubt at some point , whatever it is that we believe . |
| 28 | You know , er given enough time and preparation and if we define clearly what it is that we want to analyze , you know I can provide that information er in the form of a report or in a rawish state and we could discuss that . |
| 29 | What 's different about it is that we possess , the G M B London Region , possess sworn statements from managers and ex Chief Officers that conclusively demonstrate that what the trade union has been saying all along , what the G M B's been saying all along , about victimization , financial mismanagement and corruption , have in ta in fact taken place . |
| 30 | But such emotions are themselves informed by the way in which we see the world , by our conceptions of what it is that we find desirable or fearful . |