Example sentences of "it is that [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This argument is fully summarised by Cooper and Clark ( 1982 ) but , put briefly , it is that for full employment in the future businesses need to invest at a certain rate in new equipment . |
| 2 | If there is some consolation for bankers amidst all this destruction of value , it is that for some eagles practice makes better , if not perfect . |
| 3 | The reason it is now unacceptable to say it is that at some point in recent history , rock-climbers held a secret annual general meeting and decided to keep the word to themselves . |
| 4 | If there is a moral in the sequence of events as recounted above , it is that in penal reform there is always the potential for more influences to operate than those the planners have in mind . |
| 5 | How many hundreds or thousands of those gallons were tipped into the saucepans the report does not reveal , but certain it is that in these days it is not at all uncommon to find dishes of chicken , langouste or lobster flambé au whisky on the menus of French provincial and Parisian restaurants . |
| 6 | If one had to make a guess , it is that within another ten years or so ‘ environment ’ will have become a somewhat passé term , rather as ‘ ecological ’ has , simply because of its insufficiency as a generic description ; a term which links the preservation of rural landscapes in Europe to the fate of millions in Bangladesh obviously has problems of definition . |