Example sentences of "it is [adv] [that] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the constable quoted above makes clear , it is not that all neighbourhood policemen defuse every situation by the display of patience , sympathy , tolerance , and understanding , it is more that this is their first choice and they use other recipes , by becoming ‘ heavy-handed ’ and resorting to arrests , only when this one fails . |
| 2 | If I use the analogy of women 's fashion , it is not that all the women in the western world suddenly decided one morning to cut a foot or more off all their dresses and to appear to a shocked and/or delighted male world in mini-skirts . |
| 3 | For it is here that all our strength lies , the last certainty that light may survive in darkness . |
| 4 | It is here that all his shortcomings in stance , timing , speed , imagination of movement and fight strategy are highlighted . |
| 5 | It is n't that all the matter in the Universe started off from one particular point in space and then kept on expanding into the rest of the space . |
| 6 | It is then that all hell has broken loose and we have found ourselves standing alone in the jungle again . |