Example sentences of "it is [adv] that [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is rather that until it is recognized as a convergence , and as a problem of convergence , the usual reaction , even when sympathetic ( and this , among an older and established generation , is comparatively rare ) is to see it as little more than a loose grouping of specialist studies either of communications , in their modern specialized form as ‘ the media ’ , or of the rather differently specialized field of ‘ the arts ’ . |
| 2 | It is right that when one pays for a pint of beer , one should get a pint of beer . |
| 3 | if I strike a child in a manner likely to cause harm it is right that if the child dies I may be charged with manslaughter . |
| 4 | It is not , indeed , ruled out by the logic of the naturalistic fallacy that degree of goodness and degree of pleasurableness might coincide , it is just that once one is free of the fallacy one will no longer see any reason to hold this . |
| 5 | This relationship is evidently not to be confused with a sexual relationship ; it is just that once you have entered into an artistic liaison of this intensity , the sexual shenanigans are likely to follow . |
| 6 | It is just that if you try to use the laws of physics , in a naive way , to understand the behaviour of a whole living body , you will find that you do n't get very far . |
| 7 | It is merely that after the Glorious Revolution this element within Tory ideology became increasingly dominant , gradually supplanting the more absolutist tendency within Tory political thought . |
| 8 | All my life , he wrote , I have been preparing myself for this moment , but if I have prepared myself correctly then it is so that when the moment came I should not be encumbered with the sensation of having waited for it all my life , for such a sensation , wrote Harsnet , is too heavy a burden for anyone to carry . |