Example sentences of "it is [adv] [that] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My hon. Friend the Member for Dagenham ( Mr. Gould ) corrects me : it is rather that Brian Walden will visit the Secretary of State for lunch and take the cameras with him . |
| 2 | At the same time the kairos approach apparently allows it to be said that the past has not been at fault ; it is simply that God moves with humanity into a new age . |
| 3 | It is not that Judas is actually betraying Jesus . |
| 4 | It is not that Pan Am minded a rival going under ; indeed , Pan Am may now be able to raise ticket prices on east-coast routes where Eastern had offered big discounts . |
| 5 | It is not that Lee should in some way be forbidden to talk about white , male canonical authors , but a book such as this ought to suggest a greater awareness of the very issues it is summarising . |
| 6 | It is not that Ukraine 's rulers are devoted to nuclear status . |
| 7 | It is not that Jesus himself was God and man in the special and quite unique sense that Christian dogma had so long maintained . |
| 8 | It is not that Jesus viewed women with ambivalence , but his emphasis on the superior value of the spiritual may have placed women more than men in an ambivalent relationship to the divine . |
| 9 | It is not that God is testing us to see whether we believe or not . |
| 10 | ‘ It is not that Mr. Keats ( if that be his real name , for we almost doubt that any man in his senses would put his real name to such a rhapsody ) ’ — wrote their Gifford of Keats ' Endymion . |
| 11 | Similarly , it is inconceivably that Mrs Thatcher would have succeeded in the American context . |
| 12 | The Manor is sited in pleasantly wooden grounds and it is here that Alford truly comes to life on Spring and August Bank Holiday weekends . |
| 13 | It is here that Duval-Leroy , supplier of Sainsbury 's Champagne for the last 14 years , has its headquarters . |
| 14 | It is here that Tricia loves to entertain and eat out when the weather 's right . |
| 15 | It is here that William the Conqueror is said to have bribed two friars to help him gain access to the City of York after he had besieged it unsuccessfully . |
| 16 | If anywhere , it is here that Potter 's inexperience shows . |
| 17 | It is here that Bartimaeus , a blind beggar sitting by the side of the road , cried out to be cured of his blindness . |
| 18 | It is here that Coetzee 's work suffers from the lack of a more ambitious comparative framework , Coetzee 's work on the Conservative leagues is similar to Geoffrey Eley 's analysis of the German ‘ radical right ’ before 1914 . |
| 19 | It is here that John Bell , a theorist at CERN , Europe 's centre for nuclear research , has made a very valuable contribution . |
| 20 | The ‘ Second ’ Prokofiev Sonata comes first on the disc — in its original guide as a flute sonata it dies predate the First Sonata — and it is here that Hardy and Devos really distinguish themselves . |
| 21 | ‘ It is n't that Constance is naughty , or has tantrums , ’ she said to her cousin on the telephone , ‘ it 's as if she has just turned her back on me . |
| 22 | It is n't that God has hoodwinked us into believing , as if rationality were the bait and mystery the hook . |
| 23 | It is n't that God is unreal ; lack of commitment his made everything unreal . |
| 24 | It is n't that God delays his guidance and message , but that our perception takes time to put it into words . |
| 25 | It is n't that Ackroyd asks us to compare these two poor Toms , in pursuit of a theory alleging the importance of imitation . |
| 26 | But above all it is there that René Jacobs 's enthusiastic reconstructions of Monteverdi 's dramatic works have seen the light of day . |
| 27 | Crow Road is also a dingily respectable thoroughfare in Glasgow , and it is there that Prentice beds his uncle 's former lover , his own ‘ Aunty ’ Janice . |
| 28 | It is there that Mr Kohl 's fine political antennae could get the worse of him . |
| 29 | Trent is not alone among regions ; it is merely that Trent does not conceal its statistics . |
| 30 | It is then that Tara will belong to the Humans . ’ |