Example sentences of "[pers pn] [is] [adv] that [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't get me wrong , I like flashy bass playing and it would be wrong for me to sound as if I did n't approve ; it 's just that these kind of situations are always a trade-off . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's just that these kind of obsessive-compulsive personalities provide me with research fodder . |
| 3 | It 's just that this year I have had a lot of weak influencing situations , been on a lot of projects groups and so on , and last year I needed a lot of extra staff . |
| 4 | It 's just that most newspaper readers , the serious ones that is , would certainly opt for something a bit thicker , like The Independent . ’ |
| 5 | In fact , language , through abstraction , is a much more efficient form or communication and possesses much more control over its interpretation , and it is rather that this difference in evocation is less likely to be evident in artefactual symbolism than in linguistic symbolism . |
| 6 | When they decide on a particular form of credit , their decision commonly has nothing to do with cost : it is simply that that form of credit is almost automatically part of the buying process that they 're used to . |
| 7 | As the constable quoted above makes clear , it is not that all neighbourhood policemen defuse every situation by the display of patience , sympathy , tolerance , and understanding , it is more that this is their first choice and they use other recipes , by becoming ‘ heavy-handed ’ and resorting to arrests , only when this one fails . |
| 8 | It is not that one part of Solidarity supports the free-market experiment and another does n't . |
| 9 | Judge Donald Herrod added : ‘ This is a very dramatic turn of events and it is right that this prosecution should not continue . ’ |
| 10 | It is here that each year graduating students resplendent in academic dress gather with their families and colleagues in attendance to receive their hard-won degrees . |
| 11 | It is n't that one writer did something bad and somehow called punishment down upon himself ; it 's that writers in Iran , Saudi , Egypt are being persecuted by the forces of fundamentalism . |
| 12 | The right hon. Member for Manchester , Gorton ( Mr. Kaufman ) and his team are always ingenious in defending whatever the policy of the moment is ; it is just that that policy is changed so often that it leaves a little bit of a question mark over whether they have any plan or direction at all . |
| 13 | It is then that all hell has broken loose and we have found ourselves standing alone in the jungle again . |
| 14 | He is right that any settlement must be based not just on discussions between India and Pakistan , as provided for in the Simla agreement , but on the political process in Kashmir . |