Example sentences of "it be [conj] these " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 It is that these programmes , and the plutonium economy they seek to bring into being , encourage the Russian nuclear industry to think of plutonium as valuable .
3 Given that this is the case , it is interesting and instructive to reflect on why it is that these people have decided to call us their ‘ clients ’ .
4 Some groups of pieces may still form parts of the picture , but the more you shake the box , the more likely it is that these groups will get broken up and the pieces will be in a completely jumbled state in which they do n't form any sort of picture .
5 It is that these additional deposits can only come from some other bank .
6 erm Clevedon , or wherever it is that these guys hang out .
7 According to such a theory , if we , in English , call both our mother 's brother and our father 's brother by the same term — ‘ uncle ’ — it is because these two relatives are , to us , the same ‘ kind ’ of relative , and that probably the fact that we use the one word causes us to see them in that way .
8 Where the status of older people is low , it is because these attitudes determine that it will be low , not because it is a natural consequence of the ageing process .
9 It is because these principles have been lost that much modern architecture is criticized : there is no link with or respect for Nature .
10 It is because these qualities are so abundantly visible in photography today that the medium has some claim on our attention : photography still has much to tell us about the way the world looks and the experience of living in it .
11 Whatever it was that these men planned , Trent remained certain that it was too sophisticated to have been plotted by the murderers of Colombia 's drug trade .
12 Their general demeanour was like that of elderly clubmen determined that it should be clearly understood that they were men of the world , fully alive to all the tricks of your Tom , Dick and Harry ; yet their actual questions and comments revealed that they had not the remotest notion what sort of a world it was that these East End people they were listening to actually lived in , or how to evaluate their characters and the plausibility of what they said .
13 ‘ I really am sorry , ’ he repeated and wondered why it was that these lunches , designed as an escape from responsibility , had begun to weigh on him with the weariness of marriage itself .
14 It was after these two teachers that Mabuni named his style .
15 By the time Betty returned , her hems wet , she had decided it was because these anachronistic garments dated from an era when there were servants to perform the morning tasks while the quality lounged around in negligé .
16 It was because these two radically different approaches to a single subject matter , man , were barely distinguishable that the varieties of man came to be discussed under such vaguely defined labels as " peoples " , " races " , " nations " , " tribes " , and , more recently , " cultures " , " language groups " , " speech communities " , " social formations " .
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