Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [is] that [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His fault here is that he has not organised enough feedback . |
| 2 | Its relevance here is that it defines general insurance business ( and divides it into seventeen classes ) and long-term insurance business ( divided into seven classes ) . |
| 3 | One of the strengths of Cable 's work here is that he makes such possible lines of argument and controversy vivid . |
| 4 | Possibly the only use for hedgerows today is that they help to keep people and litter out of fields , rather than animals in , but if hedges and trees were uneconomic during the war , how much more so are they today ? |
| 5 | The point here is that we do not have an applicable criterion of a correct verdict other than the one which results from a fair trial ( Rawls , 1972 , pp. 83–9 ) . |
| 6 | None the less , the striking point here is that they have this central feature in common : not just that they both see the life of reason as important , but also that there is a distinctiveness about the quality , character and significance of reason when it is taken up seriously , which marks it out from conventional human experience . |
| 7 | … the crisis today is that we have fictions which no one admits to be fictions , whereas before people had myths , people had religions , and so on , and a lot of it was believed in as a matter of faith , whereas now everything is presented as real , and it is no more real than the myths of before . |
| 8 | And the net result of all of these things together is that it narrowed the cost value differentials between U K and overseas holidays . |
| 9 | My only regret on that particular occasion now is that I did n't organise properly getting it videotaped , because it would have been a nice thing to keep , but as far as I could I kept to the traditions of mayoral ceremonial on those sorts of occasions . |
| 10 | My only regret on that particular occasion now is that I did n't organise properly getting it videotaped , because it would have been a nice thing to keep , but as far as I could I kept to the traditions of mayoral ceremonial on those sorts of occasions . |
| 11 | One of England 's big problems recently is that they have n't put opposing teams under pressure for any length of time , so all their attacking has been spasmodic . |
| 12 | My worry now is that we meet at his house before moving on . |
| 13 | Roses are red the day is blue , my only wish now is that I spend it with you . |
| 14 | The belief here is that anyone making a trade based on superior information is in effect ‘ stealing ’ from other market participants by acting before the information is made available to all traders . |
| 15 | Our argument here is that it does not . |
| 16 | What really sets Mr Thaksin apart is that he comes not from southern China but from Chiang Mai in northern Thailand . |
| 17 | Okay so you said that the most important concern really is that you have some money for your daughter 's future |
| 18 | she did n't say well er my husband brought me here because it was a decision that she had parted , it was a choice she had made as well and so she , she excepts her responsibility , she excepts her blame and she goes to return so there was , there was this sense of confession and , and confession can be costly when we 've got to admit that I was wrong , I did wrong , I was mistaken , I went the wrong way that could be a costly mistake and , and , and er costly experience for us to go through , but surely the , the true sign of repent is that we do acknowledge our sin , we acknowledge our failure , that we acknowledge what it means to god , we ca n't shift that blame onto somebody else then also consider not just the cost that Naomi had to pay in going back , but also there was a cost for Auper and for Ruth as well as Moabias there would be little joy for them in Israel , they were foreigners , they were strangers , there would n't be much hope for happiness for them , there would be very little likeliness for them ever getting married in or remarrying er in , in Israel , they would n't be able to worship there own god , they 'd be taken from one culture to another , there 'd be taken from one language to another , what was it gon na be like for them , alright , perhaps whilst they were living with Naomi perhaps she could pull a few strings for them , but what happens when she goes and they are left by themselves and yet it would appear that with Naomi making her decision to return that they too these two daughters in law they decided to go to Bethlehem with her and it tells us that they set out together but perhaps they had n't thought it really through because their not totally committed to us and as they come towards the frontier and their gon na pass into in , back into Judah with their few miserable possessions that they 've gathered together , Naomi again considers the consequences facing these two young women , Auper and Ruth , they continued with her , as she pleads with them to go back home , Judah is no place for a foreigner , Judah is no place for somebody to come unless they are part of gods people , and I 'm reminded of again of what it tells me in , in the book of acts , that in the early church , that people were actually frightened , frightened to join with the disciples , they were frightened to join the church , there was no room for , for stragglers , there was no room for hangers on , there was no room for those who went just because they thought it was gon na be the next , the in thing to do , but folk were actually frightened of joining because they knew they had to put their lives right , they knew they had to live holy lives , they knew that god had to be lord and master in their lives and unless they were willing to do that and be committed to him they were actually frightened of joining and one of the great weaknesses of the church today is that it becomes and it can becoming our thinking and nothing more than just something we join , something we belong to , something we go along to er as like a club , like an association , but that 's not the picture we see it in the New Testament , it is a very exclusive body , it is a very exclusive grouping , a grouping of those who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ and that 's why not every body is a member of the local church , not every body who goes to church on a Sunday is a member of a church to Jesus Christ now they know if they are , but other people may not know , they know and the lord knows , I know if I belong to him and he knows if I belong to him other people may not , I can put on the act , I can look as though I 'm playing the part , I can go through the routine , I can , I can , I can fool every body , but he knows and I know , and he knows and you know and so Jesus said not every body who says lord , lord on that day will I acknowledge and recognize and so for Ruth and Nao er yes Ruth and Auper it was gon na be different of course for them as foreigners in Judah especially when Naomi goes and she pleads with them go back home , Judah is not place for Moabias , she knew what it had been like to be a foreigner , she knew what it had been like to be an alien land in an alien culture in a different religion with a different language she had known the bitterness of it all , she pleads with them go back home she prayers for them the lord bless you , the lord you know be gracious to you and so on , but they refused and again Naomi puts it to them , to please go back and Auper reconsiders and she takes the counsel and advice of her mother in law but no so Ruth and Naomi turns and says look your sister in law 's gone back , she 's gone home , you go as well , you ca n't do it , its a too greater price for you to pay , its a choice you must n't make , a decision you must n't make , your gon na have poverty , your gon na have loneliness , your gon na have hardship . |
| 19 | The rumour here is that he killed MacQuillan and now he 's committed suicide . ’ |
| 20 | Gandhi 's implicit suggestion here is that it had yet to support non-violence for , as he says , bishops still felt able to support slaughter in the name of Christianity . |
| 21 | The plaintiff 's position now is that she has to face the fact that she 's wheelchair bound for life and unable to speak . |
| 22 | The idea here is that you go to a domestic dispute to prevent a crime from being committed … |
| 23 | The idea here is that you take a rather blunt er fire-polished glass pipette , and press it against a membrane . |
| 24 | The surprise here is that they did it with the best , very purest intentions , poor lambs . |
| 25 | The problem essentially is that you have got simultaneously to account credibly for someone not being at a certain place at a certain time and to account for them precisely being there . |