Example sentences of "that [is] [conj] [pers pn] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason for that is that we 're putting tot total strangers on to our clients premises for three weeks . |
| 2 | capital instruments are similar to those of the Discussion Paper , that is that they be deducted from the proceeds of the instrument and accordingly reduce the amount at which the instrument is initially recorded . |
| 3 | And there 's also something else that I forgot to bring up and that is that they 're trying to find new ways of removing the gases , and they reckoned that in 2 years there 's going to be an electrical method , an electrical filter , and the lab is 99% efficient . |
| 4 | The other side of that is that I was listening to Medicine Now on Radio Four , and they 've got a device where they you actually have er an earpiece put into your ear and it clicks continuously . |
| 5 | never , no , and that is that it is constrained by a very tight village envelope which has actually just been defined and statutorily approved as an alteration to the rural areas local plan erm , and th the effect of that village envelope is to limit the possible amount of development to I would say no more than three or four hundred house . |
| 6 | However , the predicate displays at least one of the characteristics of a semantic dependant , and that is that it is expected to bring to the construction semantic traits not encapsulated in the subject ; furthermore , in cases of pleonasm , it is the predicate whose specificity must be increased to achieve normality : |
| 7 | That is unless it 's sold to the sort of person who blasts half of his land away to quarry gravel for motorways , like someone I can think of on the west coast . |
| 8 | That is because they were told that it would not happen . |
| 9 | ‘ That is because we are working to introduce modern language teaching quickly into primary schools . |
| 10 | That is if they are creating a demi-caractère and not a national ballet ( see page 120 ) . |
| 11 | That is until I was invited with Lawrance Collingwood to the Wigmore Hall and heard Peter perform Les Illuminations [ May IS 1943 ] . |
| 12 | And that 's while he was telling me that he wanted his Harley Street centre to offer a rape examination suite . |
| 13 | That 's before it was smashed up . |
| 14 | But that 's because we 're looking at it at close quarters . |
| 15 | That 's because we were porting it |
| 16 | That 's , th , the way I done that there , that 's because we were shown , in school , to work backwards . |
| 17 | And yet somebody else might have three or four thousand down , and that 's because they 're jetting off to er foreign climes a few times a year . |
| 18 | ‘ That 's because you 're bushed , ’ he said . |
| 19 | And that 's because you were going to go . |
| 20 | But that 's because I 'm used to Edgar and Isabella , who are always so clean and tidy . |
| 21 | That 's because I 'm going to be defeated ! ’ |
| 22 | That 's because I 'm going to suggest , so we call them interim fieldwork re , interim fieldwork reports . |
| 23 | " I ca n't make this out , " I say ( as myself , not the alien ) , to which several children respond : " No , that 's because it 's written in the alien 's language . " |
| 24 | If it sounds like the opening words of an episode of Star Trek , that 's because it 's aimed at attracting schoolchildren to the world of science . |
| 25 | That 's because it 's going round in a circle — like the Shuttle , and me on my space walk . |
| 26 | Firstly the criteria for the mean electorate size for a European parliamentary constituency has previously been used as a justification for ignoring the case for Cornwall , yet concessions have been made in other areas establishing such constituencies that do not meet the size requirement an that 's because it is accepted that European parliamentary constituencies should be created along the lines of natural communities , communities of identity and communities of interest . |
| 27 | That 's if we 're minded to approve or recommend for approval , the new settlement . |
| 28 | We might even stay to see it and learn from it ourselves … that 's if you are performing on Corpus Christi Day . |
| 29 | I have n't heard of anyone dying from a broken ankle — that 's if it is broken . ’ |
| 30 | That 's cos they 're hidden under the battery I could n't see it . |