Example sentences of "[adv] it [is] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it 's that bloke who locked the gates in Gibraltar so they could n't get into Spain . |
| 2 | Or perhaps it is that life is simply not fair , and that skill and cunning are what we should be using to navigate its choppy waters , rather than making open displays of bravado against the odds . |
| 3 | Right okay so it 's that times |
| 4 | So it 's that lack of security , lack of confidence about the future , and they need to be ins assured that there is , hopefully , a light at the end of the tunnel . |
| 5 | So it 's that way . |
| 6 | So it 's that sort of process . |
| 7 | So it 's that sort of , if you like , unconscious and undeliberate bias that I 'm talking about ; those career breaks , the lack of day care for the majority of working women in this country . |
| 8 | Thus it is that Givon 1980 talks of verbs being reduced in finiteness and argues that the degree of reduction is related to the degree to which the event evoked by the complement is bound to the agent or experiencer in terms of his influence over it . |
| 9 | No , it 's not it 's that shit that |
| 10 | We 'll have more news and features later , but now it 's that time again : weather ; Lloyd . |
| 11 | Then it 's that person 's prerogative it 's up to him if he wants to show everyone else where the water is . |
| 12 | You 've not talked to me all day and then it 's that sort of thing . |
| 13 | Indeed it is that aspect of the new arrangements which distorts the previous use of assessment by teachers , parents and children . |
| 14 | Nobody knows why it 's er it 's as big as it is , female choice is a possibility , only a possibility , but er it 's hard to know otherwise why , why it is that way . |
| 15 | This school of writing allows the pluralistic nature of polities and the control of the state by the representatives of the working class to be explained , while at the same time outlining why it is that capitalism persists . |
| 16 | 1991 , 27 1148 ) , I at once came to appreciate why it is that chemistry has so largely lost its appeal to the young : it is because its teaching has lost all discipline , degrading the science from a pursuit of excellence to ‘ fiddling the results ’ . |