Example sentences of "[prep] it [be] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pity of it is that this happens to be as beautiful a cat as the Sphynx is ugly . |
| 2 | And the worst of it is that this disturbing new trend has extended beyond the mall and into the magazine . |
| 3 | the real politics of it is that those labels are attached , and you know that as well as I do . |
| 4 | ‘ Apart from selling many more Reed titles , ’ he says , ‘ the key fact to come out of it was that more than half the customers who came into our shops to buy a promoted Reed title at a lower price bought on average two-and-a-half books at full price , and so the venture , as far as we were concerned , was highly profitable . ’ |
| 5 | Nevertheless , perhaps the most startling statistic contained in it was that some one-third of the rail route mileage carried only about 1 per cent of the freight and passenger traffic , while one-half of the route mileage accounted for only 4 to 5 per cent of total traffic . |
| 6 | What is particularly boring about it is that all the arguments are circular . |
| 7 | Now it was there that we became separated , I developed a very bad throat and could not fly , just before we were ready to leave for overseas as in his crew and the other crews that were there went on whereas I got held back and of course the way I feel about it is that that week that I got held back , saved my life . |