Example sentences of "it is that it " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the glass has any virtue at all , he wrote , it is that it refuses to pretend . |
| 2 | It is an imaginative use of the word , but what is significant about it is that it reappears in that sense in only one other place in the Old Testament , in the passage immediately preceding God 's appearance on Sinai . |
| 3 | One argument sometimes raised against it is that it would lead to plea-bargaining , and thus to offenders escaping with lesser convictions and lesser sentences . |
| 4 | Their justification for doing it is that it 's for this thing , this painting or whatever , and I always wonder if it could n't be more without all that . ’ |
| 5 | Whatever it 's called , though , one of the most gloomy facts about it is that it now spends more on weapons than on health and education put together |
| 6 | For our purposes , what matters about it is that it is an all-or-none signal , with an amplitude that does not attenuate as it travels along the axon . |
| 7 | THE extraordinary thing about Laura Ashley is not that it has been dragged back from the financial brink ; it is that it was ever pushed there in the first place . |
| 8 | There seems to be no particular difficulty with exigo , unless it is that it takes the form not of a request ( like the wordings in Gaius ) but of an instruction . |
| 9 | If I have any criticisms of this section it is that it underestimates the difficulties of writing software and ignores the influence the historical development of computing has on the acceptance of new ideas ( what Seymour Papert calls the QWERTY phenomenon ) . |
| 10 | The only serious objection to it is that it must suffer badly from the cold and , in its country of origin at least , it must spend the whole of the winter either indoors or in a man-made coat . |
| 11 | The fear for it is that it could easily be hurt without complaining and could suffer at the hands of careless children who would treat it too much like its namesake . |
| 12 | The only interesting thing about it is that it happened at all . |
| 13 | If the painting says anything , it is that it is the innocents , the children who suffer . |
| 14 | A Private Bill proposal almost invariably emanates from the person or organisation in whose interest it is that it should be promoted . |
| 15 | And what 's nice about it is that it tracks better than most . |
| 16 | If the painting says anything , it is that it is the innocents , the children who suffer . |
| 17 | The whole thing takes around 12 days to complete and takes in all the best Lakeland peaks , but the beauty of it is that it can be divided into any number of day sections and there 's always a lowland alternative route in case the weather is really awful on the tops . |
| 18 | It will be B format at £5.99 on 23rd September , and the main reason I believe it is that it has a new hardback ( Big Hole and Baby Universes ) simultaneously . |
| 19 | The more we anticipate the fear reaction the more likely it is that it will occur . |
| 20 | ‘ If there was a problem with this piece it is that it is not unique ’ , said Millerand . |
| 21 | In short , it is that it offers a way of by-passing ‘ the awkward corner ’ , Nearly twenty years ago Professor Joan Robinson observed that the predictable consequences of the attainment of near-full employment must , if institutions and attitudes did not accommodate themselves to the new circumstances , be so far to strengthen the power of the trade unions as to prompt a vicious spiral of wages and prices ; and that it would become chronic . |
| 22 | It is often not difficult to determine that relationship , but the point about it is that it is not but must be figured out by every reader . |
| 23 | One of the other points about it is that it will erm er , in in the minds of the parents the they will see this one , two , three , four , five , six , seven , eight , nine , ten er being used , poor , satisfactory , excellent and it will get them into the idea of what these levels |
| 24 | It is so very much what it is that it becomes something else . |
| 25 | So can you give me a use of cast iron which ha one of the effects of it is that it relies on the occasional lubricating properties of the graphite in the iron ? |
| 26 | If there 's one thing that is clear about desktop publishing it is that it is NOT publishing , a fact that often seems to escape those who sell it . |
| 27 | The great difficulty with it is that it makes the assumption that there is a coincidence of interest between all of these actors which will lead them to reject the maximisation of their own special interests in the search for unified position against the rest of society . |
| 28 | While the merits and demerits of this argument have been explored extensively , one major objection to it is that it begs the question of who identifies and defines the ‘ need ’ for an expansion in public intervention , and how a perceived need results in specific policies that produce an expanded state sector . |
| 29 | I do n't think the script 's up to scratch , and the whole thing 's underbudgeted , but one thing I will say for it is that it 's ABOUT something . |
| 30 | About the only thing you would n't be able to say about it is that it ‘ washes whiter ’ . |