Example sentences of "it [be] that [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could it be that one far-off day intelligent computers will speculate about their own lost origins ? |
| 2 | Are mama and my sisters truly in sanctuary — or could it be that some grave misfortune has overtaken them also ? |
| 3 | How could it be that this one man made her feel like this ? |
| 4 | Could it be that this underlying sense of obligation has weakened over time ? |
| 5 | ‘ Could it be that any living creature has its inception with the creation of a discontinuity in space ( a vortex ) through which life energy flows , sweeping biological molecules , matter , and perhaps even entire embryos along with it in predictable , spiral trajectories ? |
| 6 | It 's that that little he could n't find it . |
| 7 | It 's not just that drama teachers are nostalgic romantics who hanker for a simpler way of life ( though there may well be an element of truth in that ) ; it 's that these self-contained communities can not easily call upon outside forces to solve their problems . |
| 8 | It is that two lexical units will be assigned to the same lexeme if there exists a lexical rule which permits the prediction of the existence of the sense of one of them from the existence of the sense of the other . |
| 9 | And it is that each local church , of whatever sign should be invited to nominate from amongst their elder division those elders who district council might consider and recognise as dividing elders for a stated period of years with authority to do , provide them all services of worship and meetings of that local church , as the need arises . |
| 10 | It is that all young people under 18 who are not in full-time education or a job and who are seeking youth training are entitled to be offered and , if necessary , re-offered any number of times entry to a suitable YT programme and to receive such training . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , I was just thinking what a pity it is that all good-looking men are such beasts , ’ she said , with more real feeling than she intended . |
| 12 | How vital it is that those influential in the field possess this necessary understanding of children 's imagery and how they learn through what they draw and construct . |
| 13 | The conclusion is obvious ; and it is that those local searchers for a place here , who are being crowded out by the southerners , are most likely to be northern Catholics . |
| 14 | It is that these additional deposits can only come from some other bank . |
| 15 | And the worst of it is that this disturbing new trend has extended beyond the mall and into the magazine . |
| 16 | Partly it was for lack of anything else to be curious about , the usual island obsession with trivialities ; partly it was that one cryptic phrase from Mitford and the discovery about Leverrier ; partly , perhaps mostly , a peculiar feeling that I had a sort of right to visit . |
| 17 | It 's something that er not always happens like in the back propagation learning and people who invented it did n't realize it was that that important and did n't advertise it . |
| 18 | Maybe it was that that precarious balance in her nature — that he loved . |
| 19 | But so it was that this Hungarian son of a would-be inventor moved towards his abiding preoccupation with scientific ideas . |
| 20 | 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 . |