Example sentences of "is [pers pn] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Woe is me that Edward 's kinsmen , plucked from his side during his first moments of kingship , lie now in the dungeons of Pontefract ! ’ |
| 2 | Do n't have to talk about an just a good chat you know just I do n't want to I do n't want to talk about good people or all about that I do n't want to talk about that I want to talk I want to talk to that person out there who will feel now that it is them that I am I am appealing to I am appealing I now . |
| 3 | It is them that I am appealing to somebody because of the erm the the th thought transference that I am using is feeling now compelled to pick up the phone O nine O four six four one six four one . |
| 4 | Well do you know , when I met , I , I 'm meeting old chaps through this very excellent marriage agency , I 've never expected any thing like it , they are marvellous , and the sent me a nice old lad , but I knew I was onto a looser when he said , of course I go to my daughter-in-law every Saturday for lunch , she absolutely insists because she says , she wants to make sure that I 'm eating properly , now this is a very healthy old man with a very good income who could afford to buy any food he wants and the fact of the matter is his that he 's son is probably not , he does n't want to upset his old dad , and it 's handy to have him to come on Saturday for lunch and be done with it as it were , but I thought surely Bernard your own sense would tell you that nobody want 's their old father and father-in-law every Saturday of their life , for lunch oh . |
| 5 | But who is she that walks from yonder Hill , |
| 6 | It is her that energies are restored , sparked off and fed into different aspects of her survival as a woman and as an artist . |
| 7 | It is this latter set of words that is of semantic interest , as it is they that ’ seem to contain more meaning ’ [ Bolinger & sears , 1981 ] |
| 8 | The reverse pattern to this is seen where the barnacles are 5. balanoides and it is they that are sometimes restricted to a high-level band ( Plate la ) . |
| 9 | If it is him that 's off then it not TOO bad , ( apolgies to Halvard ) at least it 's not Macca or Speed ( or even Mr Newsome ) . |
| 10 | ‘ How is it that their entertaining is so — er — reliable then ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , you mean how is it that they can afford the pukka style if he is n't successful ? ’ |
| 12 | So standardized is it that it is widely called ‘ the attitude test ’ ( a phrase also used by American police , see van Maanen 1978 ) , and when stopping members of the public constables are routinely instructed by colleagues to give the potential offender ‘ the attitude test ’ . |
| 13 | We find Makarenko by the 1930s writing , ‘ How is it that the resistance of materials is studied in all higher technical institutes , while in the pedagogical institutes no study is made of the resistance of personalities to educational measures ? ’ . |
| 14 | What process is it that goes on in our brains that enables us to recall people and past events ? |
| 15 | So which sex is it that burns with desire for an encounter that can never be ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ How is it that your brother left and never came home ? ’ |
| 17 | What is it that makes this substantial book produce , mixed-in with its rewards and knowledge , a depressing effect ? |
| 18 | ‘ Or is it that it does n't seem long ? he continued bitterly , knowing the futility of carping , but being unable to stop it . |
| 19 | What kinda religion is it that would encourage the parent to shelter the child from any outside influences and punish it by putting it out in a world you never had any way of learning about ? ’ |
| 20 | But why is it that the League 's longest-serving manager , the fan-bashing , clown-chasing old iconoclast at Nottingham Forest , has one of the best-behaved teams ? |
| 21 | Or is it that When the vile or appalling ‘ lies quite close , but can not be assimilated … at the border of my condition as a living being ’ ( Julia Kristeva ) , what is produced is a momentarily heightened sense of one 's own aliveness , teetering on the brink of extinction ? |
| 22 | Or is it that the sudden perception of one 's own constant vulnerability provides , in its black , clouded way , a dazzling , near-religious feeling of revelation — this is how things really are ; that to be born is , by definition , to be a victim ? |
| 23 | Why is it that they bestow their ardour upon the well-adjusted , wholesome architects of pop 's fatal new maturity ? |
| 24 | Why is it that so often we think of pork as suitable only for roasting , for chops or sausages ? |
| 25 | What is it that so movingly draws so many people — his innocent , childlike way , the stony visual he projects , set off against his highly visible symptoms ? |
| 26 | So why is it that your company , and certain other major multi-nationals , plan to invest heavily in those countries ? , |
| 27 | ‘ Is it that you do n't like Lord Christopher ? |
| 28 | Jacob is not dealing with a demon , and when the answer to his question comes , together with the dawn , he knows that himself for certain : ‘ Why is it that you ask my name ? ’ |
| 29 | Why is it that people continue to follow dieting regimes that do not work ? |
| 30 | Is it that you may actually have lost fat but the loss may not show much on the scales because you are retaining water . |