Example sentences of "it [be] [conj] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The upshot of it is that the appellate court , where the matter is one of discretion , as this is of course , will not interfere with the discretion of the court below unless it considers that the court was plainly wrong or it has erred in principle , that it has taken into account something it should not have done or has failed to take into account something it should have done , and on that narrow basis I must proceed with this appeal . |
| 32 | The smaller the number of large firms in an industry , ie the more concentrated it is , the more likely it is that the competitive process will be interfered with . |
| 33 | It is interesting that if you ask where it is that the British Heart Foundation and the Imperial Cancer Relief Fund get most of their money from , it is not like other charities from donations , but it is from legacies . |
| 34 | However , it must also be recognised that in most cases when English speakers come across an unfamiliar word , they can pronounce it with the correct stress ( there are exceptions to this , of course ) ; in principle , it should be possible to discover what it is that the English speaker knows and to write in the form of rules . |
| 35 | Yes but the trouble about it is that the English are so insular that lots of them do n't , do n't realize it or wo n't believe it . |
| 36 | Rather , it is that the active exploitation by trade unions of their monopoly requires a higher rate of unemployment than any acceptable notion of full employment will admit ; and hence , that attempts by the Government to create employment by stimulating the economy will not only be inflationary but will fail . |
| 37 | Reverting to my opening discussion of the evolution of the ego and superego , we can readily see the importance of these stages and we can understand why it is that the sexual drive should lend itself to such apparently irrelevant associations as the oral and anal zones . |
| 38 | First , it is difficult to account for the very different forms of state intervention and political representation if one follows the instrumentalist position , and it is also difficult to explain how it is that the whole capitalist system coheres and is reproduced if the capitalists do not control and dominate the bureaucratic and political levers of the state , as modern instrumentalists now accept . |
| 39 | I wonder just how it is that the Daily Sport can advertise and sell Love Hearts , while youths who get caught selling counterfeit Es get arrested and charged with deception or ‘ going equipped to cheat ’ ? |
| 40 | It is that the particular theory of determinism in the chapters to come will depend considerably on the claim that the part of science most relevant to it , neuroscience , does indeed establish certain causal and other nomic connections . |
| 41 | It is because the spiritual instruction is related to the great images , that it becomes revealed truth … . |
| 42 | And it is because the new humanity is made up of free men and women that God wishes that all should be saved : his delay in invading the world and bringing an end to history is to allow time for the new humanity to supplant the old . |
| 43 | When these are violated in his painting , it is because the pictorial theory involved conflicted with his intensely visual and empirical approach , and with his desire to reconstruct the three-dimensional form of his subjects as fully as possible . |
| 44 | I wonder if it is because the prevailing attitude to life in the Eighties in Britain seems to be to look after number one , to get on , to make money , and not to bother about anyone else ? |
| 45 | It is because the rich in this city are in a club news travels fast between families . |
| 46 | It is because the individual animal is the unit of study that this is a cluster sample ; if herds were the unit of study we would simply have a simple random sample of herds . |
| 47 | The reason the Royal Show is international is not because we say it is ; it is because the international visitors choose to visit the Royal Show and that is what makes it the most international agricultural show in the world . |
| 48 | If none the less there is no question of déjà entendu but a sense of compelling actuality , it is because the unique partnership appears to inspire every one of these outstanding players to feel responsible not only for his part but for the reading as a whole . |
| 49 | Equally , science would be much less advanced than it is if the only available data were intuitive estimates of quantities . |
| 50 | recover the text as it was before the editorial operation began . |
| 51 | No money , no sight : the way it was before the National Health Service came to Wallsend . |
| 52 | She consulted Lessing , accordingly , about what to do with them ; and the end of it was that the long-forgotten link with the law was revived , and young Paul was placed like his father on an office stool . |
| 53 | Then and only then it was that the vast seamless blocks and slabs of the buried city came back to light . |
| 54 | I think our crucial criticism of the whole press release was that the , it was that the good news , if you like , that the council were doing something pro-active about food poisoning came secondary , was a secondary issue in the press release , the main , the main thing was the bad news , and it could have been turned round . |
| 55 | It was that the Rural Areas Committee should have executive control over the appointment of tutors for classes and courses and thus , of course , approval of the syllabuses . |
| 56 | If we are going to start looking into where money has gone , let us examine how it was that the right hon. Member for Worcester ( Mr. Walker ) had a job for two months and a £100,000 pay-off and a Mercedes for a penny . |
| 57 | Writing in 1932 the English critic Bryher asked why it was that the real virtues and strengths and diversity of America had never been conveyed in the movies sent across the Atlantic . |
| 58 | Certain it was that the young man had died at Falkland palace in Fife . |
| 59 | The general theory of relativity links the gravitational force and the structure of space–time , and so we should begin with a few remarks on the gravitational force and then explain how it was that the classical or Newtonian view of gravitation came to be seen as unsatisfactory . |
| 60 | So it was that the scenic heritage of coast and countryside took on a special significance . |