Example sentences of "[coord] be [pers pn] the [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it the program or is it the computer that 's specific ? |
| 2 | Is collusion indeed ever really ‘ tacit ’ , or is it the case that what may appear to be tacit collusion is actually explicit collusion in which the process of agreement is simply concealed ? |
| 3 | Was it because you knew somebody in the factory or was it the wages that attracted you ? |
| 4 | Nor is it the case that the Federal Republic is using the issue of democratic accountability to drag its feet on EMU . |
| 5 | Nor is it the case that in saying ‘ I promise to meet you ’ I am merely giving expression to — or reporting or describing — an inward , mental act . |
| 6 | Nor is it the case that we in fact need a vehicle , a mythological story to carry our awareness of God , of the kind which has been fabricated in the west . |
| 7 | It perhaps ought to be pointed out here that an odd sentence is not necessarily meaningless , or incapable of conveying a message ; nor is it the case that such sentences never occur naturally . |
| 8 | Nor is it the case that large scale development will inevitably follow erm construction of those roads . |
| 9 | Nor is it the knowledge that Foxton , a haunt of foxes even in Saxon times , is a meeting place among others of one of the great Leicestershire Hunts , the Fernie , however important a cause that may be for assemblies of motorists in the county . |
| 10 | Nor was it the case that Franco made deliberately excessive demands , in the knowledge that the Axis would be unwilling to meet them . |
| 11 | It was n't the weather threatening grey above our heads and racing in vicious squalls over the distant col , nor was it the task that lay before us . |
| 12 | Third , do parties put forward programmes of policies that are " different " and offer a real choice , and is it the case that the winning party carries out its programme if elected to office ? |
| 13 | and was it the suit that was the thing you always used to pawn ? |
| 14 | But is it the case that western women , living today in the United States , let alone in secular modern Europe , live in societies so dominated by the Christian myth , so ready to point to the place of women within the biblical tradition , that the best that women can do is to try to give a better reading of that past ? |