Example sentences of "it [is] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's that at the age of 34 , fourteen years after first shambling on stage in downtown Chicago , having criss-crossed the stand-up circuit from coast to coast and guested on very hip chat show from David Letterman to Arsenio Hall , he should be bigger than he is . |
| 2 | The easy way to remember it is that for a ‘ lesser ’ number of degrees , you turn ‘ left ’ , e.g. turning from 350° to 320° is turning to a lesser number and therefore you turn left . |
| 3 | If there is some consolation for bankers amidst all this destruction of value , it is that for some eagles practice makes better , if not perfect . |
| 4 | So it is that for Douglas MacBain it is a clearly defined aim to consider setting targets for numbers of churches to be planted in the coming decade and to work to facilitate this . |
| 5 | This argument is fully summarised by Cooper and Clark ( 1982 ) but , put briefly , it is that for full employment in the future businesses need to invest at a certain rate in new equipment . |
| 6 | Let me take this opportunity to say what a wonderful thing it is that for almost fifty years now , the British government has spent huge sums of money to keep this unique library up to date . |
| 7 | Thus structuralists , as Lukes argued , are able to take on board the insights of elite and pluralist theories and explain why it is that despite a pluralist system the capitalist ruling class is still able to dominate society even without the use of direct repression . |
| 8 | The reason it is now unacceptable to say it is that at some point in recent history , rock-climbers held a secret annual general meeting and decided to keep the word to themselves . |
| 9 | With Elton , the joy of it is that at least you 're quite familiar with a lot of the stuff , and even if you have n't actually sat down and worked through it you know how the songs go . |
| 10 | It is that to a class of fifteen-year-olds in a co-ed comprehensive school , such a statement told us something influential about the culture in which we were growing up and nothing about gerbils . |
| 11 | No two coalfields were the same , but if a general pattern can be discerned from the variety of experience it is that during the first half of the nineteenth century each region largely generated its own workforce from the natural increase of its population , but that the spectacular later developments drew not only upon local men who left the farms or rural crafts and industries in large numbers but also upon the surplus population of counties from all over the British Isles . |
| 12 | Pervasive though this negative tradition is , it does n't quite answer why it is that in a post-Christian society there should continue to be so much indifference to the claims of animals . |
| 13 | If there is a moral in the sequence of events as recounted above , it is that in penal reform there is always the potential for more influences to operate than those the planners have in mind . |
| 14 | How many hundreds or thousands of those gallons were tipped into the saucepans the report does not reveal , but certain it is that in these days it is not at all uncommon to find dishes of chicken , langouste or lobster flambé au whisky on the menus of French provincial and Parisian restaurants . |
| 15 | ‘ What is remarkable about it is that in its own way and by its own route it struggles after the same message as Christ . ’ |
| 16 | True it is that in a simple case the investigation of a suspect 's criminality may well terminate at the moment of charging , but often this will not be so . |
| 17 | It is that in the former situation it will be possible to adduce evidence as to established professional practice with which the defendant 's actions can be compared , whereas in business , while it may be clear what steps should be taken before a decision is made , it is not obvious by what criteria the decision itself should be judged . |
| 18 | In other words , the difference between ( i ) incitement and ( ii ) being a participant in a crime as one who has counselled or procured it is that in ( i ) the main crime has not been ( or need not have been ) committed by the person so incited , and in ( ii ) it has . |
| 19 | It is that in a conditional sale agreement the passing of property to the buyer is expressly postponed until some condition ( usually all the instalments being paid ) is fulfilled . |
| 20 | If one had to make a guess , it is that within another ten years or so ‘ environment ’ will have become a somewhat passé term , rather as ‘ ecological ’ has , simply because of its insufficiency as a generic description ; a term which links the preservation of rural landscapes in Europe to the fate of millions in Bangladesh obviously has problems of definition . |
| 21 | It is that within the practices thus selected and grouped there is a common further delimitation , by value or by presumed value . |
| 22 | It is that by studying the OS maps of Britain for long enough , one will inevitably discover some surprising , but nevertheless still chance , alignments — just as if one plays patience for long enough one will inevitably win . |