Example sentences of "it [is] [adv] that " in BNC.

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1 It 's probably that Robert Johnson , who finally headed for the crossroads in 1938 , made more money for Sony/Columbia last year than many of their more super-hyped contemporary acts .
2 Yeah well it , it 's probably that he 's just got one .
3 Well really that 's l by and large what groups is all about so it 's clearly that they do and there 's some cases here of sort of cyclists cycling harder and faster when they 've got they 're training with other cyclists or erm when they 're training against the clock .
4 This is , yes , contact that , this is important , because it 's clearly that there is an increase , there 's some evidence of an increase of these things as a sort of little tail end thing , it would have been perfectly good story but quite the other way round .
5 It 's mostly that I ca n't sleep . ’
6 S so it 's , it 's , it 's either that the cadres are being rightist , they are protecting the landlords so they are keeping too much , or the problem is that the cadres , what we looked at earlier , the cadres are getting in themselves and they are taking too much for themselves .
7 Well yeah , she 's probably gon na be , now , I , no it 's either that she 's going to be well certainly , an introduction to the kind of methods that Donne Donne uses which I , I 'm supposed to follow up on .
8 It 's not that I want to offend you or anything , I … ’
9 He frequents a seedy restaurant — ‘ You see this wretched tavern I spend all my time in , and I enjoy it , or rather it 's not that I really enjoy it , but one must have somewhere to perch ’ : this is the form which the Dostoevsky no-home takes with him , likewise the transpersonal motif first voiced by Marmeladov in this novel , that a man must have somewhere to go .
10 It 's not that he ceases altogether to be the eternal student , but that he becomes reshaped and misshaped into an aberration .
11 It 's not that Shatov is somehow proved right and Mrs Virginsky wrong about new life and ( by implication ) God , but that the most natural hope begins to stir in the merely legal father 's heart ; so it would be pompous and artificial to go on talking about futurity , this is the future in the mind 's eye of one rejoicing man : shared , beautiful , fragile ; and the whole novel seems braced to tear itself free of the devils possessing it :
12 It 's not that I do n't want to say anything but I just do n't know what to say , ’ John Ryan , the Welsh coach , sighed .
13 It 's not that Malcolm was a father-figure to us — as some have said — he was more like an elder brother who 'd actually been out there in the world and done it so he had the confidence and experience .
14 It 's not that he wants to stop them going to the toilet , we 've got to persuade these people to do it on a stagger basis …
15 It 's not that I do n't try — I do .
16 And often it 's not that they never had anywhere to live , it 's just that they could n't cope with the responsibilities and the isolation of living on their own .
17 ‘ To a farmer it 's an anathema not to produce on his land and therefore it 's not that he is not being responsible in meeting the challenges . ’
18 It 's not that she 's said , ‘ No , you must n't wear make-up ’ , but all my friends do , and sometimes I feel strange because I have n't got any .
19 It 's not that I want to be the ideal woman ; I 'd simply like to be able to walk down a street and not even think about it .
20 It 's not that I 'm particularly unhappy with the shape of my body or with my image , it 's just that I worry all the time about what people think about me , what impression they are getting .
21 It 's not that I am fearful of telling the truth , but the reader might be offended .
22 But it 's not that that 's keeping him away from tomorrow 's London marathon .
23 It 's not that the jokes are not funny , but just that they are about as fresh as a tin of those pineapple chunks .
24 It 's not that I do n't care .
25 It 's not that I do n't want your company .
26 In fact it 's not that the memory is lost , so much as the person ca n't get out the facts which are stored in the memory .
27 It 's not that Binbrook was such an important station to warrant all this staff , but as the size of the RAF contracted more and more , Waafs were posted there from the closing satellite stations and at one point there were twelve of us .
28 Perhaps that 's what W O meant : it 's not that there are no faults , just that from behind the wheel of a Bentley you do n't give a damn .
29 I said my say : ‘ It 's not that I 'm angry with you , or that you 've done anything wrong .
30 It 's not that you 're deliberately staying away from London by any chance is it ? ’
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