Example sentences of "it is [adv] that we " 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 Yet , much that they wrote then resonates as much today : it is simply that we do not comprehend it .
3 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 . "
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 It is thus that we understand
7 Guide to Kulchur gives us Pound at his most personal , at his most deliberately vulnerable ; it is here that we find him wondering aloud , for instance , if the body of his work to that date could be mentioned in the same breath with Thomas Hardy 's .
8 ‘ It is a bedrock of traditional liberalism to build on and it is here that we are likely to see the most substantial progress of all .
9 It is here that we shall find the explanation for the lively inconsistency of his thinking , masked though it was by the illusion of sweet reason he seemed able to create at will .
10 If the private world is where we find ourselves , then it is here that we must first come together .
11 It is here that we do see examples of apparently selfless giving , where the carer 's independent life effectively is suspended for the duration of the caring relationship , which may last many years .
12 It is here that we can see the power of his rejection of the concept of ‘ liberation ’ .
13 It is here that we can gain some insight into the assumptions that Shakespeare and his audience are making about beliefs in antiquity , compared to more modern medieval beliefs — Richard III reigned a mere century before the play was first performed .
14 And it is here that we come to the nub , theoretically , of the problem with Adorno 's whole approach to listening Dick Bradley ( n.d. ) points out that within a Marxist framework production and consumption can not properly be given the near-identity which Adorno attributes to them .
15 The London Daily Telegraph of 25 August 1887 , under the heading " A Sailors ' Association " chose to deal at length with the birth of the union , praising its objects , but predicting its early demise : " The North Country " , the article read , " was always the nursery of the famous and best seamen and it is here that we find Jack hard at work originating a fine scheme .
16 Yet it is here that we have to distinguish most clearly between a technical invention and a technology , and then further between a technology and its actual or possible social relations .
17 This pattern included a reduction in the number of manufacturing establishments employing ten or more people ; it is here that we can begin to visualize the effects of de-industrialization on the ground .
18 It is here that we must take care .
19 It is just that we Russians are living in unbearably horrible conditions .
20 It is just that we do treat them as propositions which need no justification but which can justify others .
21 But , ‘ It is just that we are in sympathy , ’ he said .
22 It is just that we are wary of strangers in the city these days , with so many of the surrounding folk seeking safety behind the walls , and the … the Sellswords flocking to Sergius 's banner whether the Duke condones it or no .
23 In Kuwait it is just that we by the way in Kuwait we have two courts , we have the civil courts and we have the Islamic court , and erm Islamic cases go to the Islamic court and otherwise they go to the civil court , except just we we accept erm how to live our live in a modern way and keeping up with the times , and it is a tradition that we have adopted in Kuwait , and the fact that it is for women can drive in Kuwait versus those that do n't in Saudi Arabia , I do n't believe I 'd like to put that in the Islamic context , it 's just a way of life which we have adopted .
24 It is enough that we see these things and sit with her while she drinks manzanilla or brandy to wash the sight away ( though we are never told why she drinks ) — these things are enough to make us participate in what we surmise she must be feeling .
25 ‘ In the present circumstances it is enough that we help each other , neh ? ’
26 When we come to the end of our own virtues and realize our inner poverty , it is then that we can start to experience ‘ the kingdom of heaven ’ in our lives .
27 It is then that we have a sense of wonder and extreme well-being .
28 It is then that we expect the best group from Southern Africa to be there , including the Homeland leaders .
29 This act of stealth and deceit is far from straightforward , and it is now that we begin to see some of the more subtle and complex adaptations of the cuckoo to its parasitic way of life .
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