Example sentences of "it is that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most important is the district council ; for nearly all purposes they are the planning authority and it is that council which issues planning consent . |
| 2 | I do n't recognise it is that ford , that 's ford Ruth is n't it ? , that 's what it is , it 's a back ford , Pearly Way , those factories I 'm sure . |
| 3 | It is that man who is now her lover . |
| 4 | I 've always owned apartments because I was born in a tenement in Glasgow and I like flat-life. , If he has one regret it is that government never saw fit to offer him another major job as challenging as his chairmanship of British Steel when he gave it up in 1976 . |
| 5 | Nobody knows why it 's er it 's as big as it is , female choice is a possibility , only a possibility , but er it 's hard to know otherwise why , why it is that way . |
| 6 | That is where our freedom lies and it is that freedom which the fatwa threatens , and which it can not be allowed to destroy . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It is not my window , it is that good-for-nothing Sunil 's window . ’ |
| 8 | It is that race of ‘ wise serpents ’ whose totem was the Hooded Cobra found inscribed on the soapstone seals of the Indus Valley who are the Nagas of Indian philosophy , and that is why the Cobra , known as Nag or Naga , has been raised throughout the country to the rank of a Divine Being . |
| 9 | Er and it is that minority of unscrupulous traders who make life very difficult for you and of course make life very difficult for Trading Standards . |
| 10 | How risible it is that art can not provide a better imitation of life , when we know that life itself is so illusory . |
| 11 | In some sense , then , the function of the Creole seems to be to emphasise the content of that particular piece of talk , for it is that content which is reacted to by other speakers . |
| 12 | It is also possible to define the recognition point of a non-word : it is that phoneme at which the stimulus no longer corresponds to any English word . |
| 13 | It is that memory of him that will stay with many English and Scottish writers , and for which my wife and I will always be grateful . |
| 14 | The other is the far gamier world of Defoe and Fielding , and it is that memory that Amis and Murdoch revived . |
| 15 | Let's , we 've got to look at what it is that management are making a mess of . |
| 16 | It is that sentence the club will most want to see cut . |
| 17 | Only here what must be put squarely , if not exactly clearly , before the reader is what it is that will after all betray the murderer . |
| 18 | It is that fragmentation that the Forum has to strive to avoid . |
| 19 | It is in fact a movement : a coming together of teachers whose common conviction it is that teaching up to now has been conducted in far too random and amateurish a fashion , based at best on a kind of inspired guesswork , and that it ought to be possible by putting our minds to it , and applying the sort of thinking that is successful in other fields , to do a better job than before . |
| 20 | It is that response that makes the digits of birds , mice , and men different . |
| 21 | In this and in future legislation , it seems that the public interest almost becomes whatever it is that competition promotes . |
| 22 | ‘ If we have learned anything from the last few years , it is that availability is the main occasion and the trigger for experimentation among the young . ’ |
| 23 | It is that position of fundamental weakness and poverty that forces them to apply for the Government 's student loans . |
| 24 | In his column in the Scottish edition of the Sun newspaper today , Mr Sillars says : ‘ It is that position of political integrity the party must build on , even if it means a new collective leadership sooner rather than later . ’ |
| 25 | so I do n't know whether it is that tablet , it 's eased off now |
| 26 | It is that structure which determines longer-run profitability . |
| 27 | Or perhaps it is that life is simply not fair , and that skill and cunning are what we should be using to navigate its choppy waters , rather than making open displays of bravado against the odds . |
| 28 | Our campaign has focused on the infantry because it is that part of the army which is most stretched . |
| 29 | It is not that cats do not enjoy all the aforementioned nocturnal pleasures , it is that nightlife is too dangerous for them . |
| 30 | The reason I 'm in it is that document , as the officer says , sets out the information given as the offer as the officer put it . |