Example sentences of "it is [that] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Scottish summary of what it is that parents value in teachers and what makes a poor ( as well as a good ) teacher ( SED 1989:7 — 11 ) is in some ways an up-to-date version of parts of Enquiry 1 ( Schools Council 1968 ) . |
| 2 | It is that Lady Susan Hussey , the Queen 's senior lady-in-waiting , rang me to give directions to find the fateful villa , 12 miles from St Tropez . |
| 3 | What a lasting pity it is that Sir Julien himself , so passionately devoted to the game , was such an abysmally poor performer . |
| 4 | WHAT delightful news it is that Leslie Crowther , right , is back on his feet . |
| 5 | True it is that Ewan Beg thought he had killed his dallta — for I told him so . |
| 6 | Without for one moment implying any impropriety , this last episode demonstrates how deliciously appropriate it is that Mr Wyatt should subsequently have struck up such a warm friendship with the world 's foremost collector of air miles . |
| 7 | And so it is that propliners operators have an essential specialist role to play in modern commercial aviation . |