Example sentences of "the [noun] [is] that i [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The irony is that I did n't realise till Christmas , when I knew I loved you , that it was someone like you I should have been looking for all these years since . ’
2 So now I know , but the result is that I 've had two years of injury , followed by two years of doing completely the wrong thing . ’
3 Therefore , the result is that I dismiss the claim as against the second defendant .
4 This went smoothly and is a great improvement but in order to create the compressed drive and double the hard disk capacity the SuperStor program took my hard disk ( drive C : ) and seemed to create a compressed drive D : it then swaps drive D and drive C so that the compressed drive is now C : The result is that I seem to be locked out of my old drive D in Rom which has one or two useful bits on — like a hardware check program .
5 The wood is alder and the deal is that I scaled down the body a little bit .
6 What clouds the issue is that I have caught hundreds of bream , of all sizes , and from a variety of waters , when the surface of the water has not been broken once by a fish .
7 The wonder is that I write
8 The wonder is that I write
9 The answer to the second is that I agree that Crime Concern , which enjoys all-party support in the House , does excellent work .
10 Yes well the , the question is that I notice in the assets that investments at cost were twenty five million , the present market value is twenty eight million , indeed since that 's been written it may even be more and when I looked down to the other side of the accounts , I noticed interest on capital of twelve hundred and four pounds and I wonder where the interest from the twenty eight million has gone to .
11 If you move straight from chapter 5 to chapter 8 you will get a stark contrast between two theories of justification , and all you need to know for the moment is that I take the intervening chapters to provide a reason against any form of foundationalism .
12 The only reason that I 'm enjoying Neighbours again at the moment is that I have n't seen it for month and I 'm trying to work out which characters have changed , which characters are getting married to which other ones .
13 The point is that I made a mistake — oh , I do have a feeling for him , that helped to confuse the issue , we do like one another — what I have come to see is that my falling for Lewis was not what I took it to be . ’
14 The only reason I make the point is that I understand ATP have rejected an appeal by the LTA to help guarantee the long term future of the November indoor tournament in Birmingham by lowering the $600,000 prize money to around the $300,000 on offer at the two competing tournaments in Moscow and Sao Paolo that week .
15 Sophie smiled at her godmother , then , turning to Joanna , she said , ‘ The point is that I feel you 're disappointed .
16 But the point is that I do n't see myself as a playwright in the same way I would see myself as a prose writer .
17 ‘ Yes , yes , man , but the point is that I did n't leave it , and now these confounded women have taken possession of the cottage .
18 The point is that I want to be near you . ’
19 The point 's that I think is trying to be made is that there are a lot of people here tonight who do wish to express an opinion and that opinion is not necessarily formulated in question form .
20 Yes , but the difference is that I 've never seen those houses but I have , I can see those .
21 The difference is that I knew what I wanted and he did not .
22 The truth is that I had never even met him . ’
23 The truth is that I kept on having mental lapses , during which I could hear every word that was being spoken , understand the meaning of each word and even of some phrases , but could n't make these disparate utterances add up to anything that made sense .
24 The truth is that I fought what I felt for you for as long as I could , and even after we made love I told myself that I wanted you , desperately , but that you meant nothing more to me than an object of desire . ’
25 The truth is that I have this slight problem with my jaw It gets sort of locked sometimes and I think in that picture I must have been trying to loosen it up . ’
26 A a as you and various other people likely said erm a lot of people regarded it as a kind of act of erm racial er disloyalty I 'm not bothered about what race I am , I 'm just bothered about the truth , and the truth is that I think erm Moses was not Jewish well who 's to know , who 's to know erm as I said it 's a fascinating book and if , if you like that kind of detective story approach to history , you , you might , you might enjoy reading it , erm there are , i it raises a lot of other issues , many of which I 'll talk about in the , in the lectures , so I , I wo n't waste time say repeating it all here .
27 The other is that I do n't wish any harm to come to Miss Coleman and she may be safer where she is until they say she 's free to go . ’
28 The trouble is that I know that all the time he 's only trying to ingratiate himself in order to get me to agree to a merger .
29 The trouble is that I recognise the tug of it all .
30 ‘ I suppose the unusual thing about the allotment is that I grow just about everything , ’ he said .
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