Example sentences of "it is [adv] that [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 It is not , stresses Pavitt , that the UK has abruptly ceased to invest in computer hardware and software in the current recession , it is rather that companies which invest prudently , for example , in a better accounts receivable system to improve their cash flow , are likely to outweigh the number of competitive advantage go-getters .
2 It is right that students be initiated into the conceptual apparatus , skills and ways of going on within the teacher 's own discipline ; and it is right that students therefore acquire the discipline required for the necessary understanding and competencies .
3 It is right that students be initiated into the conceptual apparatus , skills and ways of going on within the teacher 's own discipline ; and it is right that students therefore acquire the discipline required for the necessary understanding and competencies .
4 While the above judgment confirms what the Society and , presumably , its members have understood all along , it is right that members should be notified about the matter .
5 It is here that fathers play an important part .
6 It is here that theorisations which see the nuclear family as a means for controlling the working class in the ‘ interests of capitalism ’ can be seen to be inadequate .
7 It is here that efforts have been made to open up resources to working-class communities and/or to provide access into educational institutions .
8 It is here that techniques of various kinds are put into action to achieve practical learning outcomes .
9 It is just that gentlemen are Well , it does not do , you see , to be too much apart .
10 It is just that politicians in power do show a tendency to become rather bogged down by the business in hand , and battered women , ill-educated toddlers and the tax status of child-minders have , for perfectly understandable reasons , so far not succeeded in exercising their imaginations .
11 It is not necessary to establish loss or injury to an individual or a group ; it is enough that losses are sustained .
12 Feelings and emotions are examined in depth , and it is then that pupils can be seen struggling to come to terms with right and wrong .
13 They appear in vast numbers in the Antarctic Ocean particularly in summer ( they depend for food upon the blooms of phytoplankton ) and it is then that whales like the blue migrate towards the pole to feed .
14 In previous generations it was much less likely than it is now that grandparents would have lived to know their grandchildren as adults ( see chapters 2 and 3 ) .
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