Example sentences of "it is [adv] that [pers pn] " 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 not repentance ; it is simply that they are scared for their skins and wish to save parliamentary seats in the general election . |
| 4 | ‘ Clearly the reason they claim to have burnt it is simply that they realize it would be too risky to let us examine it . ’ |
| 5 | Yet , much that they wrote then resonates as much today : it is simply that we do not comprehend it . |
| 6 | Perhaps it is simply that you do not have the courage to do so . |
| 7 | It is simply that he is a married man , around 30 , with wife and children , a car , a mortgage ( ? ) etc. , etc . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ It is simply that I have different ideas than the gentlemen who give places to men … . ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ It is simply that I expected better service , ’ he snapped . |
| 11 | It is simply that it left us stranded . |
| 12 | If this book has a significant weakness , it is simply that it takes three chapters to get into its stride . |
| 13 | 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 . " |
| 14 | I know everything was very very strict indeed there was nothing like it is nowadays that I had but erm |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It is right that they should be dealt with in a humane and honourable manner . |
| 17 | It is right that they should be given a place of honour in the history of ancient art . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | However , if someone wilfully refuses to pay the charge , it is right that he should have to pay the price for his illegal action . |
| 22 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that it is right that he should restate the Government 's commitment to their policy in Northern Ireland , based on the rule of law ? |
| 23 | Leeds is now the third largest city in England and the 20th in Europe , so it is right that it should have international ambitions . |
| 24 | The PAC wants hard and fast information , and it is right that it should . |
| 25 | It is right that it should be raised on the Floor of the House . |
| 26 | The Engineering Employers Federation says that its members ’ strongly support the Government 's objective of providing a balanced and effective framework of trade union and industrial relations law ’ and that ’ the step by step approach has been seen by all to have worked successfully and it is right that it should continue . ’ |
| 27 | Rates of CTT chargeable on the coming to an end of an interest in possession during the lifetime of the beneficiary On a separate matter , it is right that I should inform the Committee , for the avoidance of doubt , that the lower rates of CTT announced by the Chief Secretary on 5th February which would apply to transfers of value occurring during the lifetime of the transferor will also apply where an interest in possession comes to an end during the lifetime of the person beneficially entitled to that interest . |
| 28 | SIR JACOB : It is right that she do n't seem desirous to drown the remembrance of her original in her education . |
| 29 | It is thus that we understand |
| 30 | It is thus that he declares himself for Dunning 's sapphics , flashing out at ‘ any one who can not feel the beauty of their melody ’ ( my italics ) . |