Example sentences of "[prep] it is [that] " in BNC.

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31 ‘ The pity of it is that Araminta will get the Lodge after all .
32 The pity of it is that the Prime Minister , who said that he wanted to be at the heart of the process , has instead condemned this country to be semi-detached from it .
33 the real politics of it is that those labels are attached , and you know that as well as I do .
34 The basic thrust of it is that it should be looked at only exceptionally : Lloyd .
35 The principle is commonly known as proprietary estoppel , and since the effect of it is that B is prevented from asserting his strict legal rights it has something in common with estoppel .
36 The basis of it is that the landlord , by letting the premises , confers on the tenant the right of possession during the term and impliedly promises not to interfere with the tenant 's exercise and use of the right of possession during the term .
37 Yeah well it 's no well that sort of it is that pho that sort of phone call really have waited .
38 The only way you can make sense of it is that it 's it 's design to get a competitor out of the market .
39 And the other side of it is that obviously you , you do n't want to be going to the D S S and asking for erm State benefits either
40 And the upshot of it is that he has taken the custody of the de Breos lands from the Earl of Cornwall , and bestowed it upon his beloved justiciar .
41 The the the buggeration of it is that the next time round that something goes wrong , it 'll be again something that you 've encountered before !
42 Part of it is that interests .
43 Well , one thing I think will come out of it is that the Enquiry will say that this closure will have fairly cataclysmic affects on the economy of this city , I think that 's clear , and I think that will come out of it .
44 I mean part of it is what I think and part of it is that I think that I like it because it works , that these things — I basically am unconvinced much of the modern tradition .
45 One argument sometimes raised against it is that it would lead to plea-bargaining , and thus to offenders escaping with lesser convictions and lesser sentences .
46 The idea behind it is that you ca n't achieve a total look with one brand but must combine products from both ends of the market for a contemporary image .
47 The idea behind it is that Arnie has to move along an ever-scrolling backdrop , punching and headbutting all and sundry while ducking underneath projectiles hurled by his assailants .
48 The notion which lies behind it is that where there is a moral duty to speak out , speakers should not hold their tongues for fear of writs .
49 The first reason to dispense with it is that the nation state itself is an expensive fiction , particularly in terms of its loss of human life .
50 Owen , who describes DCE as ‘ more ambitious code , ’ says the other problem with it is that , by implication , DCE has to be tested on multi-vendor machines .
51 The great difficulty with it is that it makes the assumption that there is a coincidence of interest between all of these actors which will lead them to reject the maximisation of their own special interests in the search for unified position against the rest of society .
52 The problem with it is that a lot of people are asymptomatic and you do n't know whom may or may not be carrying Jardea .
53 What does emerge from it is that Norris 's way of reading Derrida is likely to make considerable demands on the reader .
54 The key element in it is that the process determining the variable about which variables are being formed has to be estimated alongside the rest of the model .
55 The only serious objection to it is that it must suffer badly from the cold and , in its country of origin at least , it must spend the whole of the winter either indoors or in a man-made coat .
56 Although it is early days and the team will not be reporting back until March , what is already becoming clear to it is that , unless small firms are encouraged to continue training chartered accountants , the smaller end of the profession may not have a future at all .
57 While the merits and demerits of this argument have been explored extensively , one major objection to it is that it begs the question of who identifies and defines the ‘ need ’ for an expansion in public intervention , and how a perceived need results in specific policies that produce an expanded state sector .
58 The point is that the inference which you give to it is that they 're not quite fit to be Governors , by comparison with others , and I 'd like to defend that because I can assure you that I have never ever nominated a Governor for a school who I have not thought would be advantageous to that Board of Governors to have as a member and that he will be he or she will be a contributor to that particular school , and I 've done it time and time and time again and indeed on occasions have had headmasters coming to me and thanking me for the particular person that I put in .
59 The fear for it is that it could easily be hurt without complaining and could suffer at the hands of careless children who would treat it too much like its namesake .
60 I do n't think the script 's up to scratch , and the whole thing 's underbudgeted , but one thing I will say for it is that it 's ABOUT something .
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