Example sentences of "that it [is] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I have to admit that in the past I have been offended by people saying that it 's just formula for me to play melodies and structures that come to me very naturally . |
| 2 | I found that it is the planning of this , that it 's also choir rehearsals , and certain school activities that do clash . |
| 3 | You can work on a presumption , a prebonderance of probabilities or whatever , but I mean what you can not do is take it that it 's absolutely fact that that is going to happen . |
| 4 | The worst thing about infidelity is that it 's usually death to a relationship . |
| 5 | Which is why the eternal words , ‘ Do you think that it 's about time we started a family ? ’ rarely fall from men 's lips . |
| 6 | He not only attacks the SEC for being politically grounded , suggesting that the SEC 's limited resources are being focused on those least in favour with the enforcement agency , but by adopting the Stigler ‘ interest theory ’ of regulation , he argues that if one were to look for the supporters of anti-insider dealing provisions , one would find that it is neither society nor the markets , but the SEC itself . |
| 7 | Such is the efficacy of propaganda for the global capitalist system that it is rarely capitalism itself that is targetted in such cases , but the symbols of American or European national power . |
| 8 | Their mother and father have told them that it is about time they started helping a bit more at home . |
| 9 | I am told by the probation service , social workers , educationists , and those involved in the youth offenders institute in my constituency that the turning point comes in the late teens , when such offenders get a regular girl friend and decide that it is about time that they acted a little more responsibly . |
| 10 | The point has therefore now been made with three examples that it is usually carbonate facies that are so remarkably persistent in a lateral sense . |
| 11 | The argument is that it is essentially turnover that matters since this shows the amount of client participation at the roulette or blackjack tables . |
| 12 | Secondly , although certainly important , the current preference by some writers to relate creativity to the affective forms of psychosis should not divert us from the fact that it is actually schizophrenia which has inspired most of the theorising — and generated a good deal of the empirical evidence — about how psychotic and creative traits might be related to each other . |
| 13 | The presupposition here ( that it is indeed SF ) merely makes explicit what is implied in including this passage in a questionnaire on SF . |
| 14 | Weightlessness apparently does no great harm , so President George Bush says that it is now time to send people to Mars . |
| 15 | Kay 's article also suggests , however , that it is now time to consider regulating the conduct of doctors who repeatedly fail to maintain adequate professional standards . |
| 16 | Crucially , it would be premature to conclude , on the basis of the lack of vociferous support for the welfare state in recent years , that it is now time to jettison what Pinker ( 1993 ) has termed the unitarist approach to welfare . |
| 17 | Does the Minister think that it is now time to implement the proposals in the report ’ Escaping the Debt Trap ’ to introduce social loans , to take more stringent action against loan sharks who exploit poor people by their extortionate interest rates and to encourage a more responsible lending policy by banks ? |
| 18 | Does not the Solicitor-General accept the views of the Select Committee on Home Affairs , which conducted an inquiry into the CPS , that it is now time for a full inquiry into why the CPS is not up to its full complement ? |
| 19 | We think that it is now time to review past demonstrations and to decide on the next steps . |
| 20 | I accept that one can make some criticisms about Labour local authorities , but what I dislike about the Secretary of State 's usual contribution is that it is so cliche d , simplistic and grotesque . |
| 21 | It is important to understand that it is never treatment in the abstract which can be described as ‘ extraordinary ’ , but only treatment in the context of the particular patient being cared for . |
| 22 | In your bedroom , do you keep a dim light glowing gently or the curtains drawn back so that it is never pitch dark ? |
| 23 | Cockburn reduces two contradictory processes of the local state — that it is simultaneously agent and obstacle for the national state - to those of a one-way agent . |