Example sentences of "is [adv] that the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it is right that the official institutions of a community should express moral judgements on behalf of its law-abiding members — but why should it have to take form of punishment ? |
| 2 | For example , the Kenyan scholar Ali Mazrui has written that the reason why the Swahili word for a newspaper is gazeti is merely that the first papers that East Africans came into contact with were government gazettes . |
| 3 | So the really important thing that has happened is not that the official forecasts have been wrong , it is that the New Consensus , having been tried in the balance since we joined the ERM and , indeed , during the past 12 years as a whole , has been found wanting . |
| 4 | The point of all this is not that the entire women 's liberation movement should support the Wages for Housework demand ( as at present formulated ) — a pretty remote possibility — but that it should recognise — as WfH does — the importance of feminism 's attitude to housewives . |
| 5 | The problem of recruitment administration is not that the individual tasks are difficult , but that the addition of fluctuations in the level of activity makes them difficult . |
| 6 | The point is not that the theological pronouncements of scientists are to be discounted but rather that they do sometimes have to be seen as efforts at mediation . |
| 7 | It is here that the sacred mysteries of Osiris 's resurrection were celebrated . |
| 8 | It is here that the various valves , heaters etc. , comprising the Wolverton system of steam heating are manufactured , and all the stock of the Company is rapidly being fitted with this patent arrangement . |
| 9 | Bordered by desert , the Mediterranean and the Red Sea , this densely populated country is concentrated along the Nile , away from the blistering heat of the hinterland , and it is here that the great monuments to the country 's past civilisation lie . |
| 10 | It is here that the dauntless cavalrymen of Ellyrion rest when they return from their long sweeps through their embattled land . |
| 11 | It is simply that the necessary distinctions are not to be found at the level of categorical separation but rather at the level where they are in fact produced , which is that of both general and specific cultural and social orders . |
| 12 | The fact is simply that the two colours do not possess universal symbolic meanings shared by all the peoples of the globe . |
| 13 | The problem is precisely that the two applications , which will be the subject of two separate Bills , are being considered separately . |