Example sentences of "it is [adv] [that] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time the kairos approach apparently allows it to be said that the past has not been at fault ; it is simply that God moves with humanity into a new age . |
| 2 | It is not that boys go out on a Saturday night looking for milk bottles or other things to smash . |
| 3 | It is not that writers invaded universities . |
| 4 | It is not that Jesus viewed women with ambivalence , but his emphasis on the superior value of the spiritual may have placed women more than men in an ambivalent relationship to the divine . |
| 5 | It is not that Egyptians have found a sudden enthusiasm for Islamic fundamentalism ; a majority probably resents the terrorism that has chopped tourism in half . |
| 6 | It is not that cats do not enjoy all the aforementioned nocturnal pleasures , it is that nightlife is too dangerous for them . |
| 7 | It is not that librarians had no practice in the classification and cataloguing of non-book materials . |
| 8 | It is not that librarians did not know , nor that they did not care . |
| 9 | It is not that people need to change or be ‘ cured ’ ; it is that they need to pursue their thoughts to their logical conclusion and from there make decisions on the basis of what they have discovered about themselves . |
| 10 | It is here that fathers play an important part . |
| 11 | It is here that Tricia loves to entertain and eat out when the weather 's right . |
| 12 | It is here that efforts have been made to open up resources to working-class communities and/or to provide access into educational institutions . |
| 13 | It is n't that God delays his guidance and message , but that our perception takes time to put it into words . |
| 14 | It is n't that God has hoodwinked us into believing , as if rationality were the bait and mystery the hook . |
| 15 | It is n't that Ackroyd asks us to compare these two poor Toms , in pursuit of a theory alleging the importance of imitation . |
| 16 | Gunn says his old boss is not dour , it is just that people misread his temperament . |
| 17 | Not one candidate in a hundred gives an answer comparable with this ; students regularly fail to consider what it is exactly that A suspects . |
| 18 | Crow Road is also a dingily respectable thoroughfare in Glasgow , and it is there that Prentice beds his uncle 's former lover , his own ‘ Aunty ’ Janice . |
| 19 | Trent is not alone among regions ; it is merely that Trent does not conceal its statistics . |
| 20 | It is then that Ahn stepped forward to protect me . |
| 21 | It is only that people have lost the secret . ’ |