Example sentences of "it is [adv] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is however the subtler aspects of weight , control and role which " colour " the process , to the extent where one case is so different from another that their common origins are all but lost . |
| 2 | In the boroughs it is normally the Social Services , or the Environmental Health Department who would handle the arrangements . |
| 3 | There is a very strong case for limiting periods of service in the voluntary sector , for it is frequently the irremovable elements which convey that wearying taint of backward-looking petrification . |
| 4 | It is primarily the national bureaus , and in particular the military , that are able to exercise wage and factor price discrimination because of their greater monopoly power , use of specialized resources and command of the ‘ public domain , ( e.g. air space , land , and nuclear materials ) . |
| 5 | It is usually the teenage years that create the biggest parental conflicts over friends . |
| 6 | Ultimately it is indeed the individual genes that are selected . |
| 7 | It is often the unresearched opinions of individuals that identify potential markets and market opportunities abroad . |
| 8 | In addition , the rate of change can be exaggerated , because it is often the same pieces of marginal land that are being continually transferred from one use to another , and then back again . |
| 9 | This distinction becomes clearer when one sees that it is mainly the industrial applications which have developed into dispute resolution . |
| 10 | Furthermore , one might point out that modern observations of innovation in primate behaviour — particularly with regard to feeding techniques — shows that it is always the younger animals who are the experimenters . |
| 11 | In a sense , it is precisely the vain attempts to interpret existence as a " property " and the difficulties created by such interpretations that have inspired the various reductivist moves in an effort to dispose of the whole problem , by showing that existential propositions are in principle " eliminable " , and hence that there are no " irreducibly " existential facts . |
| 12 | The political influence of the countryside remains disproportionately strong , but in other respects it is now the urban centres which dominate the economic , social and cultural life of Japan . |
| 13 | Many products contain mechanisms that are interfaced to electronics and with the advances in miniaturization of these products it is only the special-purpose machines which possess the skills to manufacture and assemble them . |
| 14 | Usually it is only the smallest craters that have a simple bowl shape with the cross-section shown in Figure 6.6 ( a ) , and craters less than 1 km diameter may even have no noticeable rim . |
| 15 | I emphasise again that it is only the nearest worlds in which the antecedent is true that count . |
| 16 | Of course , the resultant of all winds is probably not the most useful resultant , as on most shores it is only the onshore winds which count in constructional action . |
| 17 | It is only the inexperienced dealers , who know nothing about the stock market and who are desperate for money that can be manipulated this way . |
| 18 | It is only the American buyers who are now attracted by genuine objets d'art , they are the only ones who understand their true worth and what kind of reflection is that upon us ? |
| 19 | Unfortunately it is only the voluntary agencies which are likely to take its message to heart — and not the government aid departments and World Bank ‘ experts ’ who need most to hear it . |