Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [adv] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not that in desperate circumstances we discover ourselves to be natural egoists and throw off moral restraints , it is rather that morality no longer applies . |
| 2 | It is simply that adaptation and ancestry can explain what adaptation alone can not . |
| 3 | It is simply that interest rates have not been an important part of their own calculations of credit costliness ( nor , indeed , have they been at all prominent in credit advertising ) . |
| 4 | It is not that kind of explanation and dependence that is in question with causation . |
| 5 | It is not that case that er er the auditing practices board is a body set up by the statute . |
| 6 | It is not that testing rigorously formulated theories from deduced hypotheses is never done , only that it is not the standard of scientificity . |
| 7 | It is not that racism vanishes — in fact it intensifies and violence increases , but most children start to face up to it at this point , and their ‘ inferiority ’ usually clears away . |
| 8 | David Bohm proposed that consciousness is basically in the ‘ implicate order ’ as all matter is , and therefore it is not that consciousness is separate from matter but rather that consciousness manifests in the ‘ explicate order ’ as does all matter . |
| 9 | And it is not that breach of duty which gives rise to the action . |
| 10 | Those who would like the tax to be the same for everyone , no matter where they live and no matter what property they live in , will be disappointed by the council tax because , frankly , it is not that sort of tax . |
| 11 | It is not that stylistics is uninterested in this or that local feature of a text ; but rather that local or specific features have to be seen in relation to other features , against the background of the pervasive tendency of preferences in the text . |
| 12 | It is presumably that time which is relevant to the comment which I have n't the heart to repeat here where I refers to the current narrator . |
| 13 | It is when that figure falls below one-quarter that people begin to use the term ‘ modular ’ , ‘ unit-credit ’ , or its colloquial equivalents such as building-block , cafeteria , pick n'mix ( or worse ) . |
| 14 | It is here that hope has a place . |
| 15 | It is here that reference will be required to particular previous awards and especially to those assessed or affirmed by the Court of Appeal . |
| 16 | Our interest lies chiefly with the main board since it is here that investor pressure or the lack of it has its main significance . |
| 17 | It is here that psychoanalysis has had its most popular appeal , seeming to explain why some obsessionals continually need to wash their hands , or why some children are desperately afraid of horses or dogs , or why some people are afraid to go out of the house . |
| 18 | It is here that team work gives extra support and guidance , providing a discussion framework in which such matters can be aired . |
| 19 | It is here that Scaevola appeals to the trust clause ; and it is on the basis of it that he allows their entitlement to stand . |
| 20 | But at another level it is imperative that we do so because it is here that policy , theory and practice intersect . |
| 21 | It is here that research papers are generated and read and discussed , and where the academic superstars go through their paces and inspire their dedicated students . |
| 22 | It is here that Aspect has taken a crucial step with his latest experiment . |
| 23 | It is here that condensation forms unless the space is ventilated — which it hardly ever is . |
| 24 | It is here that class lines became drawn , often with continuing argument about jobs at or near the point of division . |
| 25 | It is n't that famine in Africa is actually anything new ; the emaciated , wide-eyed child of a decade of Oxfam advertisements is far too familiar to allow that . |
| 26 | But ( unlike the Tories ) it is n't that kind of outfit . |
| 27 | To which Mary Deare replied in a low voice , ‘ It is n't that kind of pain , and then cried out with terrible conviction — Wendy , you are wrong about mothers . |
| 28 | It is also that democracy in these societies , was demanded , and was admitted , on competitive liberal grounds . |
| 29 | It is just that community workers get paid and do not have to go to gaol ( Alex Robson of the 1930s NUWM in North Shields commenting on the work of CDP in the mid-1970s ) . |
| 30 | We might think of the real essence of a triangle , ‘ three lines enclosing a space ’ , as instructions for making such a figure : it is how that figure is constituted . |