Example sentences of "is [adv] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is right that in the negotiations , which must remain confidential , they should seek to prevent us from going too far too soon . |
| 2 | It is only that by doing so , the accounts are reflecting the economic reality more closely . |
| 3 | If God had so wished , he most certainly could have created duplicate worlds ; it is only that in so doing God would have acted without a sufficient reason , and this would be contrary to his nature . |
| 4 | If a circular cylinder of orthotropic symmetry is used with axis along 3 , the apparent shear modulus to insert in Equation ( 5.3 ) is so that for this geometry a unique value for is unobtainable . |
| 5 | The experimental limit on A given later in Section 11.5 is so that on Earth the acceleration due to the cosmological term is about 10–22 times that due to the gravitational pull of the Sun . |
| 6 | What matters is that a limitation has been set ; and now if a child brings out a gun , a knife , a rope ladder or even a box of matches you can check with the list and then either stay in role and say " You may have meant to bring that rope ladder , but it 's not here " , or come out of role and discuss the agreed rules of the drama , one of which is perhaps that in this drama there is no recourse to magic . |
| 7 | The implication is obviously that over time the proportion of the portfolio devoted to government securities is slowly increasing . |
| 8 | According to this view the space opened by figural language is not that between metaphoric and proper terms , but that between two or more equally figural terms , which , in Brooke-Rose 's case , are two or more discourses . |
| 9 | It is not that on the borders of logic there is a loose form called argument from analogy , but that all thinking starts from a spontaneous discrimination of the like and the unlike , and tendency to group the similar in categories and expect similar consequences from similar conditions . |
| 10 | The most notable thing about the Rough Wooing is not that in the end the savagery of the English attack drove the Scots away from the new idea of friendship with England and back into the arms of their natural and ancient allies , the French . |
| 11 | It is not that in desperate circumstances we discover ourselves to be natural egoists and throw off moral restraints , it is rather that morality no longer applies . |
| 12 | It is just that in that particular situation he had to act as he did , and to have acted differently would have meant that he would have been in the wrong though not for the same reason . |
| 13 | ‘ The reason for this is just that in these matters custom makes us reason and judge so quickly , or rather we recall the judgments previously made about similar things ; and thus we fail to distinguish the difference between these operations and a simple sense perception ’ . |
| 14 | It is just that in Scotland it is far more obvious . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It is just that after much brainwork in Rome I have thought to give myself a little holiday on this famous Capri Island . ’ |
| 16 | Most tied cottages are located on farms rather than in the village itself , so within the village the most important housing mix is usually that between privately owned and local authority housing . |
| 17 | When we turn from labour supply to labour intensity , the contrast made by historians is usually that between pre-industrial work rhythms and those of the factory economy . |
| 18 | The most complete atlas of mechanical properties of polymers is still that by McCrum , Read & Williams ( 1967 ) . |
| 19 | The earliest is possibly that from Leicester ( no. 3 ) , but equally likely is that from Verulamium ( no. 2 ) . |
| 20 | The best known of such a transformation is probably that for turning Celsius temperature into Fahrenheit where F=32+9/70C , or , for another example , a conversion formula for turning imperial weights into metric ones . |
| 21 | The most serious of the plant proposals is probably that from Chile to delete from Appendix I ‘ dead specimens ’ of a magnificent and endangered tree known as alerce or Chilean false larch . |
| 22 | Renner ( 1917 ) argued that as ‘ capitalism is now passing from its industrial to its finance-capitalist stage ’ so the old principle of nationality ‘ the democratic , nay revolutionary principle of the unity , freedom , and self-determination of the nation , is over and done with ’ , and the dominant national idea is now that of ‘ national imperialism ’ , promoted by the ruling classes . |
| 23 | The position in England and Wales is now that in all areas there are two levels of administration , the county and district authority . |
| 24 | It is simply that at one time the ooze covering the sea floor contained shells of animals — and before that did not . |
| 25 | The difficulty is simply that as a co-heir Seia is owner of an undivided share of the whole estate , and the question is on what basis she can recover from her coheir the quarter of the gardens which she does not own qua heir . |
| 26 | Part of the answer is simply that until very recently , most chimpanzee research was done on captive animals , who lead a very boring life , are often kept apart from other members of their family , and have a constant abundance of food . |
| 27 | The point is simply that in all positions , other than the two attributive ones , the entity has already been identified before the adjective is brought into direct or indirect constructional contact with it . |
| 28 | In England for example , unemployment in the North is twice that in the South-East , and in most European countries there are lesser employment opportunities in rural areas as opposed to urban areas resulting in depopulation of the countryside and an increase in the size of cities . |
| 29 | Vocatives can be divided into calls , or summonses , as in ( 47 ) , and addresses , as in ( 48 ) ( Zwicky , 1974 ) : ( 47 ) Hey you , you just scratched my car with your frisbee ( 48 ) The truth is , Madam , nothing is as good nowadays The distinction is precisely that between gestural and symbolic usages , applied in this domain . |
| 30 | The difference between the monotonous beat of pop music and the rhythmical architecture of a great symphony is precisely that in classical music the primitive reaction is delayed and denied for a more varied satisfaction . |