Example sentences of "it is [adv] [conj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not , stresses Pavitt , that the UK has abruptly ceased to invest in computer hardware and software in the current recession , it is rather that companies which invest prudently , for example , in a better accounts receivable system to improve their cash flow , are likely to outweigh the number of competitive advantage go-getters . |
| 2 | It would be wrong to conclude that it is simply because women live longer than men . |
| 3 | It is right that students be initiated into the conceptual apparatus , skills and ways of going on within the teacher 's own discipline ; and it is right that students therefore acquire the discipline required for the necessary understanding and competencies . |
| 4 | It is right that students be initiated into the conceptual apparatus , skills and ways of going on within the teacher 's own discipline ; and it is right that students therefore acquire the discipline required for the necessary understanding and competencies . |
| 5 | While the above judgment confirms what the Society and , presumably , its members have understood all along , it is right that members should be notified about the matter . |
| 6 | It is largely because men have come to believe their own sexual PR that no male protesters were doing so . |
| 7 | It is here that fathers play an important part . |
| 8 | It is here that theorisations which see the nuclear family as a means for controlling the working class in the ‘ interests of capitalism ’ can be seen to be inadequate . |
| 9 | It is here that efforts have been made to open up resources to working-class communities and/or to provide access into educational institutions . |
| 10 | It is here that techniques of various kinds are put into action to achieve practical learning outcomes . |
| 11 | It is just that gentlemen are Well , it does not do , you see , to be too much apart . |
| 12 | It is just that politicians in power do show a tendency to become rather bogged down by the business in hand , and battered women , ill-educated toddlers and the tax status of child-minders have , for perfectly understandable reasons , so far not succeeded in exercising their imaginations . |
| 13 | It is just because paradigms have such a persuasive influence on the science practised within them that the replacement of one by another must be a revolutionary one . |
| 14 | But it is just because participants in conversation may be expected to observe the sub-maxim " be orderly " that we have that expectation . |
| 15 | It is precisely because prisoners are shut away , lacking legal , moral and political respectability , held at the mercy of , and dependent on the goodwill of , the State , that a case can be made for vesting special positive rights in prisoners . |
| 16 | In the United States , however , it is precisely because churches are so full , and wealthy , that it is not easy to see that in fact secularisation in the form of ‘ laicisation ’ has gripped the church by the throat . |
| 17 | It is precisely because costs are passed on to third parties that we let them occur . |
| 18 | It is not necessary to establish loss or injury to an individual or a group ; it is enough that losses are sustained . |
| 19 | If terms like ‘ affective psychosis ’ , ‘ schizophrenia ’ and ‘ schizoaffective disorder ’ have a use , therefore , it is merely as labels of convenience , as shorthand descriptors of the flavour of a given individual 's form of insanity — and even then often only at a certain point in time and subject to qualifications as to the severity of disability . |
| 20 | Feelings and emotions are examined in depth , and it is then that pupils can be seen struggling to come to terms with right and wrong . |
| 21 | They appear in vast numbers in the Antarctic Ocean particularly in summer ( they depend for food upon the blooms of phytoplankton ) and it is then that whales like the blue migrate towards the pole to feed . |
| 22 | In previous generations it was much less likely than it is now that grandparents would have lived to know their grandchildren as adults ( see chapters 2 and 3 ) . |
| 23 | It is only if theologians go on using the old equipment ( sun goes round earth etcetera ) that they fall out with the philosophers and scientists . |
| 24 | It is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior . |
| 25 | Enthusiasm is closely linked with interest , for it is only when things cease to interest us that we lose enthusiasm . |
| 26 | In the later interviews it is only when grandparents were not known directly that there is no significant memory of them , and we can reasonably assume that this was also the commonest reason for lack of memory in the first set . |
| 27 | Material objects may become temporary substitutes for important relationships , like the mauled soft toy or ragged piece of blanket in childhood , but it is only when relationships with ‘ things ’ rather than people become an established pattern for ‘ shutting out ’ that there is cause for concern . |
| 28 | In fact , sometimes it is only when doubts are expressed that we have the first clue that things are no longer the same . |
| 29 | In fact the wording of the Act makes it clear that it is only as mothers that women are given priority in the public sector . |
| 30 | It is only as deaths of red or green moths in that environment that these are fortuitous events ; this fortuitousness being , as philosophers say , description relative . |