Example sentences of "it is [adv] [that] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not repentance ; it is simply that they are scared for their skins and wish to save parliamentary seats in the general election . |
| 2 | ‘ Clearly the reason they claim to have burnt it is simply that they realize it would be too risky to let us examine it . ’ |
| 3 | It is not that they showed no mercy on the streets of Jericho . |
| 4 | It is not that they are extreme , or personally off-putting . |
| 5 | It is not that they are not used : vitamins are prescribed and bought on a massive scale for people without the slightest hint of a deficiency , and ginseng is now sold in chemists and health-food shops in the UK to the tune of no less than £7 million a year . |
| 6 | It is not that they are too slow to avoid being hit , but that they simply do not hear the cars speeding towards them . |
| 7 | It is not that they are less likely to be murdered , raped , robbed , or assaulted — although the best scientific evidence based on victimization surveys shows this to be true ( Hindelang , Gottfredson , and Garofalo 1978 ) — but that in the criminal law , definitions of murder , rape , robbery , assault , theft , and other serious crimes are so constructed as to exclude many similar , and in important respects , identical acts , and these are just the acts likely to be committed more frequently by powerful individuals . |
| 8 | It is not that they are not capable of competing ; it is simply that there have been no great black performers in these areas in history ( due to lack of opportunities and facilities ) and no tradition exists . |
| 9 | It is not that they are facts in the absolute . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It is right that they should be dealt with in a humane and honourable manner . |
| 12 | It is right that they should be given a place of honour in the history of ancient art . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Meaning is not an issue that arises for the Russian Formalists , and it is here that they differ most fundamentally from the American New Critics with whom they otherwise have so many similarities . |
| 15 | It is not just that there survive undeconstructed residues of , say , Romanticism and modernism , or that the constructed forms echo still within the deconstructed ( although they clearly do survive in these ways ) ; it is also that they exert an influence in and as their newly deconstructed state . |
| 16 | Thirdly , it is not only that the approaches give different ‘ answers ’ , it is also that they are asking different questions . |
| 17 | It is just that they show a very late timing of their sleep/wake rhythm with respect to normal time-cues . |
| 18 | It is just that they have both been at it too often recently . |
| 19 | Those making the decisions have become in a precise sense semi-literate : they can read and write , it is just that they seldom do . |
| 20 | ‘ It is n't to say The Wedding Present just treat it like a job , it is just that they have natural courtesy and manners . |
| 21 | The first problem here is that the brevity of Scaevola 's response ( even by his standards three words is modest ) leaves it unclear whether he means that the debtors are not freed from any liability , or whether it is just that they are not freed from liabilities contracted after the first will was made . |
| 22 | It is just that they have no other choice . |
| 23 | Once again these hidden costs have been part of the investment-need right from the beginning — it is just that they have not been looked at closely enough . |
| 24 | It is afterwards that they get stressed , particularly when they get home . |
| 25 | Jip and Zab succeed in contacting Xorandor 's offspring orally , and of course it is orally that they themselves finally work out their differences . |
| 26 | It is there that they make classics out of our modern art ’ |
| 27 | It is there that they make classics out of our modern art ’ . |
| 28 | It is merely that they wish to question me , for I had responsibility for the food last night . |
| 29 | Communication also suffers when people make false assumptions about shared schemata , and it is then that they cease to ‘ be clear ’ . |