Example sentences of "it is [adv] that [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is simply that their numbers were fewer and hence their overall impact appears less . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It is thus that our imaginative faculty is kindled , uniting the flames of cognition and emotion . |
| 5 | It is here that your values and ideas about preparing children ( i.e. guiding and training them ) for life need to be worked out clearly and communicated to your youngster in the form of reasons . |
| 6 | It is here that your reviewer must admit his personal friendship with author Jim Hooper ( who is also a contributor to ‘ MI ’ Nos. 22 , 24 & 31 — Ed . |
| 7 | Another commonly-accepted indication of intelligence is the way animals deal with the unpredictable contingencies of their world through learning ; and it is here that our intuition tells us that we must be dealing with something very like intellect . |
| 8 | You should have enough energy to ascend from Scarth Gap onto Haystacks which is a jumble of rocky knolls , tarns and heather , so loved by Wainwright — in fact it is here that his ashes are now scattered . |
| 9 | Although the ancestor 's body is a dot , like a bacterium in the primeval slime , hidden inside it is the potential for branching in exactly the pattern of the central tree of Figure 3 : it is just that its Gene 9 tells it to branch zero times ! |
| 10 | It is just that their claim to power is completely out-of-date . |
| 11 | ' It is just that my friends are coming under great pressure from their communities over the incident . ’ |
| 12 | It is generally possible to isolate at least one compelling selling feature even if it is only that your client 's product is the cheapest . |