Example sentences of "[adv] it [is] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it 's because Switzerland is the most boring country in the world , and once you 've learned to play the Alpine horn there 's precious little else to do in terms of entertainment . |
| 2 | Perhaps it is because Sri Lanka 's politicians have , in the past , been people of some stature , and the army used to be kept small . |
| 3 | And so it is that propliners operators have an essential specialist role to play in modern commercial aviation . |
| 4 | So it 's that Vibes question again . |
| 5 | Thus it is that fans of that period recall Mike Deakin and his wholehearted displays with pleasure and affection . |
| 6 | Is n't it wonderful to realize that when we hear that noise now it 's because people are either flying for pleasure or business purposes . |
| 7 | Well it 's like Richard said I think The Mercury probably tried that and then gone with this naff tale about the house . |
| 8 | If I am particularly hard on Chailly here it is because Schoenberg suffers so often from performances of this kind , and he so needs interpreters who understand the spirit behind the notes . |
| 9 | At this point we may ask how it is that speakers go about creating linguistically the persona which they animate at any one particular time . |
| 10 | Perhaps some modest help can be obtained from reconsidering how it is that practitioners of quantum mechanics actually go about their trade . |
| 11 | There are important developments on Pareto 's analysis in that Mosca identifies in a more concrete and specific manner how it is that elites arise , maintain themselves in power and are replaced . |
| 12 | This to-one-side posture of novelist and novel explains how it is that Raskolnikov and Marmeladov are pointedly at a loose end while Crime and Punishment is anything but pointedly sociological . |
| 13 | When Svidrigailov and Porfiry , who never meet — bold again — and who have nothing to do with each other , both tell Raskolnikov that a man needs air , my business is to try and suggest how it is that Dostoevsky 's reader finds himself in immediate dual touch with a Petersburg july day and a universal truth . |
| 14 | Or maybe it 's because golf is n't the be-all and end-all to him . |
| 15 | There it is that Morag lives . |
| 16 | Instead it is because success has been dependent on the ability to win the argument on each individual placement with each head teacher that this investment , as part of the in-service programme , is worthwhile . |
| 17 | It is natural to ask … why it is that countries have Constitutions , why most of them make the Constitution superior to the ordinary law , and , further , why Britain , at any rate , has no Constitution , in this sense , at all . |
| 18 | The recovery is slow and patchy , but the policy is sound — Labour Members who laugh and snigger at such remarks ought to ask themselves why it is that Britain of all the countries in Europe has the most inward investment from overseas investors . |
| 19 | They 'll want to know why it is that Britain 's second busiest airport has once again come perilously close to disaster . |
| 20 | It is also a fact which should be given careful consideration in the attempt to determine why it is that girls rather than boys tend to become anorexic . |
| 21 | One wonders why it is that Lewis could see the reality of this divine drama dancing throughout the pages of the scriptures even though many notable theologians could not . |
| 22 | The Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police might care to ponder why it is that juries increasingly dismiss the sworn evidence of his officers in favour of those accusing them of gross impropriety . |
| 23 | Do you know why it is that Jean-Paul 's Algerian estates are so prosperous ? |
| 24 | I shall isolate six points of difference that seem to me important to our appreciation of why it is that children normally find writing difficult . |
| 25 | So we would examine socially determined personality differences between the sexes , why it is that men are always seen to be the intellectuals , things like that , They were important discussions as women often feel that community action is a mystery to them and that the only thing they can really understand is looking after the kids , I think the courses were a success because many campesina women became important leaders afterwards . |