Example sentences of "it is [adv] [conj] [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 | It is simply because we are fitter and tougher , harder and stronger , that we come on top on so many occasions . |
| 20 | It is past before it has scarce begun . |
| 21 | 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 . " |
| 22 | I know everything was very very strict indeed there was nothing like it is nowadays that I had but erm |
| 23 | the great bulk of community care is provided by friends , family and neighbours … it is right that they should be able to play their part in looking after those close to them … service providers should make practical support for carers a high priority . |
| 24 | It is right that they should be dealt with in a humane and honourable manner . |
| 25 | It is right that they should be given a place of honour in the history of ancient art . |
| 26 | Press hostility to this idea was scarcely free of self-interest , but there were bigger issues at stake and it is right that they prevailed . |
| 27 | In our efforts to promote extensification of livestock production , it is right that we should question whether livestock production should be allowed unrestricted use of technology in order to produce maximum output from the minimum amount of land . |
| 28 | It is right that we should consider tonight the question how we enhance the democracy , responsibility and accountability of the European institutions and of our own Ministers to the national Parliament . |
| 29 | I think it is right that everyone should be given the freedom to choose whether or not they want to work in a smoking or non-smoking office and separate areas created to cater for both factions . |
| 30 | It is right that our procedures should be subject to challenge and change , but her idea of turning a Government Advisory Unit into some kind of Oxford tutorial is an absurd perversion of everything that has been so slowly and painstakingly developed over the years . |