Example sentences of "that it is a [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 It may be that it is a price which none of us will pay .
2 The government has at last acknowledged that ‘ disappearances ’ do take place and that it is a problem which needs addressing , and Amnesty International expects to be submitting cases for investigation by the Commission .
3 We seem to feel that it is a sense we can manage without .
4 A column entitled ‘ Bulletin ’ informs her that Marilyn French will be discussing her new book , Beyond Power : Women , Men and Morals , at a public meeting to be held later in the week in London , and it crosses Robyn 's mind , not for the first time , that it is a pity she lives so far from the metropolis where such exciting events are always happening .
5 Evelyn Goldsmith ( 1984 , p.407 ) , however , found that ‘ The depiction of objects of which parts are implied as lying beyond the picture frame does not seem to cause any particular problems of interpretation ’ and comments that a researcher , M. Crago , ‘ feels that it is a convention which children quickly learn to accept ’ .
6 He forbids divorce , but implicitly accepts that it is a man who initiates divorce , ‘ the man who divorces his wife …
7 In much of the discussion it has been assumed that it is a parent who seeks the information .
8 I think that whether as er Mr submits and is a guideline case and to be adapted to changing conditions or whether it is a case which lays down a bounding rate , that it is a case which I should follow and that the reasoning leading to the adoption of two percent as the appropriate percentage to be applied still applies today , thus the calculation is one hundred and thirty five thousand pounds times two percent , is two thousand , seven hundred pounds times seventeen , is forty five thousand , nine hundred pounds , to this there is to be added a cost of conversion , thirty two thousand , four hundred and seventy two pounds less the enhancement in value thereby created of twelve thousand , five hundred pounds that is a figure of nineteen thousand , nine hundred and seventy two .
9 Someone must plough the fields or milk the cows , but much of this endeavour takes place hidden from public view and when a tractor is glimpsed across a field it is often assumed that it is a farmer who is in the cab .
10 I think if you do n't do that , you 'll very easily become over-influenced at the time by the fact that it is a crisis you 're dealing with .
11 It is not absolute in the sense that it is a rule which allows no exceptions .
12 Dominique is shocked , but agrees that it is a car everyone can enjoy , ‘ although my mother would have a heart attack in it ’ , she adds with glee .
13 That suspicion of the referendum or plebiscite which we noted was partly based on the fact that it is a device which had been used by some dictators and despots to give their rule at least the semblance of a basis in popular consent .
14 It allows parents to see that the process is not at all mysterious and that it is a device they can use themselves in future for other problems .
15 My submission is that the identification and analysis of the two key features mentioned above indicate that it is a right which is far from being the general bulwark it purports to be .
16 Its popularity probably lies in the fact that it is a game which is cheap and easy to play and understand .
17 Now I think this is a brilliant speech , but I have to admit that it is a speech which , in showing the egoism , the confusion and the self-deception of Eve , assumes a valid order which is being destroyed .
18 The sceptic insists that there is a difference between the two hypotheses , but that it is evidence-transcendent , i.e. that it is a difference which you can not tell ; and he concludes from this that you do n't know which situation you are really in .
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