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 right that every household should know its rights under the NHS . |
| 14 | However , if it is right that a change is as good as a rest , you should now feel rested and ready to cope with anything . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | During the middle years of their married life , and before Prince Charles becomes King , it is right that the paths and interests of the Prince and Princess of Wales should diverge somewhat . |
| 17 | If there are any sources available to the Government that disprove that figure , it is right that the Minister should put those sources to the House . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | It is thus that the ‘ head ’ as bearer of an impressive array of receptor organs ( sight , sound , odour ) has evolved . |
| 20 | But for a handful of obvious reasons , Lewis does not draw a picture of ‘ the whole man ’ in Surprised by Joy It is partly that a natural reticence made him draw a veil over the two greatest facts of his emotional history : his relationships with his father and Mrs Moore . |
| 21 | It is partly that the teachers were asking for a depth of cataloguing , a level of retrieval , that is very expensive . |
| 22 | It is here that a massive scoreboard confronts the players , the numbers changed slowly , tantalisingly , by hand . |
| 23 | It is here that a true designing system will be based and will grow from an understanding of the conceptual activities , how they are developed and controlled . |
| 24 | IT IS HERE THAT A CITY AND ITS PEOPLE POSSESSED A PART OF MY SPIRIT . |
| 25 | It is here that a city and its people possessed a part of my spirit . |
| 26 | It is here that an anthropological observing participation comes into its own , for in living with the semantics of the system the analyst has the potential to undertake a rarely used method of social research . |
| 27 | It is here that an individual anthropomorphic interpretation of each animal enters the process and overlays generalised documentation . |
| 28 | It is here that the Germans have done so much pioneer work , and indeed the whole tendency of their art historical studies has been to regard works of art almost entirely from a chronological point of view , as coefficients of a time sequence , without reference to their aesthetic significance . |
| 29 | Just as important as establishing what to include is deciding what to exclude , and it is here that the purists may find cause to tar and feather us . |
| 30 | I wonder if it is here that the pictures are to appear , worrying that the seats are badly arranged , pointing the wrong way , that we wo n't be able to see them properly . |