Example sentences of "it [be] [that] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could it be that the Germans in the west did not want unity after all , despite those opinion polls over decades showing they did ? |
| 2 | Could it be that the bureaucrats of primate research saw a way to parlay an admission of poor husbandry into a public relations campaign for the primate centres ? |
| 3 | Could it be that the bureaucrats of primate research saw a way to parley an admission of poor husbandry into a public campaign for the primate centres ? |
| 4 | Can it be that the tales I heard in Geneva were true ? |
| 5 | Could it be that the stripes are intended not for the eyes of lions but for the eyes of other zebras ? |
| 6 | Could it be that the calories supplied by a diet high in natural fibre were being digested and utilized in a different way by the human body ? |
| 7 | How could it be that the cells that will form the gut and the bones and muscles are on the outside of the early embryo , yet they will form structures that are clearly on the inside of the animal ? |
| 8 | they use er , a very sort of sparse unpopulated area obviously and so you do get erm plants and animals having to , well change it so that they , er you take as it were that the genes changed , some does mutation probably alright , some probably not . |
| 9 | In passing our studies have helped to clear up some of the outstanding biological problems that underlie the reproductive biology of Bufo bufo , such as why it is that the males so greatly outnumber the females , and why they are smaller . |
| 10 | If anything is demonstrated by the USSR 's record on energy over the past decade it is that the resources , the equipment , manpower and the money do exist broadly to achieve whatever the mighty planning and executive mechanism dictates . |
| 11 | Finally , and perhaps most importantly , this account fails to explain why it is that the forms of state intervention have shown tremendous variability in capitalist economies and why it is that not every country had the same welfare and interventionist economic policies . |
| 12 | Well it 's tomato mosaic virus int it , erm but what really is significant about it is that the leaves are mottled with yellow and it quite often go fern like , they go very very thin . |
| 13 | Again they ask of what significance it is that the metaphors used for God in the Hebrew and Christian scriptures are overwhelmingly male ? ) |
| 14 | Rather , it is that the processes described in the previous chapter have continued during the more recent period . |
| 15 | They 'd sooner take a job eight to five in a factory , if they can get it , and the worst of it is that the ones who do take it on ca n't find a wife . |
| 16 | It is that the actors ' desires , beliefs , and resulting reasons for action may be generated in turn by external factors . |
| 17 | Thus it is that the Masters and Augusta are always spoken of in reverential tones , each contestant being made to feel that he is walking on hallowed ground in close communion with the saints of the game . |
| 18 | It is that the directors ' accountability should be to those who do not direct but who are nevertheless committed to the company . |
| 19 | Indeed , need and dare allow us to see even more clearly how it is that the modals fail to constitute a before-position with respect to the event expressed by the infinitive . |
| 20 | The right hon. Gentleman has explained how important it is that the rights of the Opposition should be restricted . |
| 21 | It is that the senses of an ambiguous word form should not in every case be totally conditioned by their contexts , unlike the interpretations which arise as a result of contextual modulation . |
| 22 | How different it was all to be , and the marvel of it is that the plans prepared in the period after 1945 proved as robust as they did for so long . |
| 23 | The crucial point to notice about it is that the entities whose ‘ fitnesses ’ are being compared are no longer individual organisms , but populations of organisms . |
| 24 | So it is that the prospects for four political-reform bills are suddenly looking good . |
| 25 | It is that the words ‘ directions for the purpose of determining a specific question which has arisen , or which may arise , ’ do not refer to the method of determining that question , but refer to a direction which will , as a matter of law , determine the issue as between the parties . |
| 26 | In the first case one asks ( stage one ) what it is that the scriptures ( or Christianity ) are essentially about ? |
| 27 | Clear as it is that the terms of intra-bloc trade deteriorated from the USSR 's point of view in the 1970s , the issue deserves to be treated with a degree of wariness . |
| 28 | The more structured the source of words , the more likely it is that the terms in the source will already be in a standard form ready for lifting wholesale and little modified into a thesaurus . |
| 29 | It is that the Libyans should hand over to the United States or British jurisdiction the two named officials against whom the crime of mass murder is alleged in the warrants issued by the Advocate-General . |
| 30 | Now I know erm following a fairly recent er er er case in the house of lords that the courts are er entitled to rely on what ministers say in debate but perhaps the minister could er spell out a little bit more clearly the apparent discrepancy between what he said in his speech and what is on the face of these orders and indeed why it is that the orders in r relation to banking and financial services , adopts a different phraseology er to that used in the orders relating to insurance and building societies . |