Example sentences of "is [that] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , if we are to define what it is that influences our decisions whether or not to indulge our motivations towards crime we inevitably make suppositions about human needs or requirements , which are in turn predicated on assumptions about what it is that gives us pleasure or pain . |
| 2 | What is disconcerting is that Peters , well-known for his fondness for overstatement but highly valued as the co-author of In Search Of Excellence , is describing a future where the characteristics and skills displayed by men are not only worthless but may even be harmful . |
| 3 | Whatever it is that decides when such changes in fashion , in culture , come about — I 'd say that is the real futurology , the thing to try to predict … |
| 4 | only when I like a D is that pardon me , ah pardon me no oh er , er Margaret Thatcher knocked at the door the other day |
| 5 | Trouble is that picks up the dust . |
| 6 | All I 'm saying is that worry can make you thin . ’ |
| 7 | The more likely scenario is that support for SAG will wane , funding from members will dry up and DRDA will become a de facto standard by default . |
| 8 | But the more likely scenario is that support for the SQL Access Group will wane , funding from members will dry up and Distributed Relational Database Architecture will become the standard by default . |
| 9 | The lesson to be learned is that taking time out of a fixed routine to stand back , and reassess the situation , is time well spent , and can create greater efficiency and productivity . |
| 10 | The central argument in this chapter is that change in world structures has created both new possibilities for creating wealth , and new dilemmas for governments as to how to balance the conflicting demands of their domestic and international agendas . |
| 11 | The soil classification used here is that adopted in Scotland ( Soil Survey of Scotland , 1984 ) for the 1:250 000 scale soil survey of the whole country during which the soils of the Outer Hebrides were mapped and described ( Hudson et al , 1982 ) . |
| 12 | Probably the best-known , and perhaps the most notorious , selected settlement policy is that adopted in County Durham , where there were special difficulties in planning for the dispersed villages that had grown up in the coalfield ( Barr 1969 ; Blowers 1972 ) . |
| 13 | This procedure , which is that adopted in the model described above , is quite legitimate ; it does however underline the limitations of confining attention to equilibrium paths . |
| 14 | A section of printed ephemera with its own special charm is that consisting of the small mementoes which a number of printing houses struck off to amuse and honour visitors . |
| 15 | In our ‘ folk psychology ’ of knowledge , the relation between action and knowledge is that secure . |
| 16 | No but what I 'm saying is that went in before twelve o'clock . |
| 17 | What I 'm arguing for tonight is that given that we 've relatively recent boundary change , the people have just about got used to it , so by and large er it does n't seem to have huge numbers of demerits as far as the city is concerned and that we are now very , very close , as close as is possible to the norm for the average constituency size that we actually endorse the boundary commissions proposals and leave well alone and the second part of the motion merely says to a neighbouring authority , y'know , please in some senses be punctilious about not to suddenly decide to poke your noses into something way beyond your it 's not just a couple of parishes on the south boundary , a couple of parishes from from the north of their but actually way to our area but what candidly I can only see as a rather partisan er er |
| 18 | The most bizarre of all these techniques , at least to our eyes , prejudiced as we are to a mammalian way of doing things , is that practised by Rhinoderma , a tiny frog that Darwin found in Southern Chile . |
| 19 | The trouble is that tiptoeing is desperately uncomfortable when you are trying to win a war at the same time . |
| 20 | But what is less often pointed out is that Anselm in The Proslogion also defines God as ‘ greater than can be thought to exist ’ . |
| 21 | And who is that whooping it up at the bar with a glass in his hand ? |
| 22 | Erm but I think the important thing is that Jung on whom this er particular theory it 's based on his |
| 23 | I think too that we should reflect upon who it is that receives the blame er when policing falls below the standards which we would all think appropriate . |
| 24 | At present , the Commission 's thinking is that express services should be liberalised where this is not yet the case . |
| 25 | Firstly , that the acid test whether or not benefit is collateral is that laid down by Best J , namely " Is the covenant beneficial to the owner for the time being of the covenantee 's land , and to no one else ? " |
| 26 | But the fact is that spent most of his life , and most of his writings on an enormous work , even longer than the Golden Bough , er called the Welker Psychologie or Folk Psychology , and this enormous work , it 's in twenty three volumes or something , er , of , of , the Welker Psychologie is just like James Frazer 's writing and indeed Totem and Taboo . |
| 27 | The first is that stopping popular schools from expanding because spaces are available at other less-popular schools nearby is a fundamental contradiction of the Government 's education policy . |
| 28 | The vocalisation you are most likely to hear is that produced by juveniles when they are playing . |
| 29 | The result of this , as far as the individual is concerned , is still inevitably depression and its polar opposite mania , except that in these circumstances depression has become the vague permanent melancholy which state oppression invariably induces , and the intermittent mania is that produced by alcohol . |
| 30 | As it happens , the only ethical guide which is relatively clear , though still very general , is that contained in a brief statement made by Pope Pius XII 20 years ago . |