Example sentences of "is [adv] [that] [pron] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Mr Bliss is right that we have to assume that the abductors are politically motivated terrorists — ‘ ' |
| 2 | It is merely that they wish to question me , for I had responsibility for the food last night . |
| 3 | and if er , what they 're trying to do is so that you work say twenty three hours the class contact , you , you ca n't be averaged for more than two hours a week , so you need twenty three hours for the first two terms |
| 4 | We have the greatest chance ever to rid the world of nuclear weapons now , yet the consensus in this country is apparently that we need to maintain three Trident systems and possibly build a fourth at a total cost of more than £23 billion . |
| 5 | The reason that people do not generally look into alternative credit terms in any detail certainly is not that they feel pushed willy-nilly into one particular type of credit . |
| 6 | Presumably some patrol ship on the high seas might log messages in this way , but it is clear that , as humans , our experience of utterances is not that we have recorded in memory a list of utterances to which are attached standard tags specifying time and place in these terms . |
| 7 | ‘ It is not that he had abandoned or qualified his commitment to the principle of non-violence ’ . |
| 8 | Our charge against the metaphysician is not that he attempts to employ the understanding in a field where it can not possibly venture , but that he produces sentences which fail to conform to the conditions under which alone a sentence can be literally significant . |
| 9 | I have been accused of favouring Transworld in the past , so I feel I must defend myself and say that it is not that I love Transworld so much as that I admire success . |
| 10 | It is not that I have forgotten what other people are like . |
| 11 | It is just that we do treat them as propositions which need no justification but which can justify others . |
| 12 | ‘ I suppose it is just that I have led a more open life than you . |
| 13 | The defence of formalism is always that it serves to control an excess of feeling , but here in the absence of formalism there is nothing but empty pathos , artificiality in its weak form . |
| 14 | It is also that it has failed to regain the support of the working class — old and new — that it lost in 1979 . |
| 15 | This act of stealth and deceit is far from straightforward , and it is now that we begin to see some of the more subtle and complex adaptations of the cuckoo to its parasitic way of life . |
| 16 | It is here that we do see examples of apparently selfless giving , where the carer 's independent life effectively is suspended for the duration of the caring relationship , which may last many years . |
| 17 | Yet it is here that we have to distinguish most clearly between a technical invention and a technology , and then further between a technology and its actual or possible social relations . |
| 18 | At this point , someone might rightly argue : ‘ I happen to live on earth , and it is here that I want to have a happy marriage ! ’ |
| 19 | The point is here that he has mentioned in his press release a number of okay local people , and by doing this in this particular way he has greatly increased the possibility and probability of ending up with a piece in the local newspaper . |
| 20 | ‘ If I do n't talk to you about your father , Alex , it is n't that I 've forgotten him , but Mr Morgan would n't like it . ’ |
| 21 | That it is n't that you 've got up on the wrong side or eaten something which did n't agree with you or just need a few days ' rest . |
| 22 | My point here is simply that they do go some way to explaining why patterns of co-residence fluctuate over time . |
| 23 | The problem with the ATTRIB command is simply that you need to replace the \ between the -h and c : \etc. by a space i.e. c : \DOS>attrib -r -s -h c : \lite\pcprobe \*; * |
| 24 | For many people the biggest problem with using a computer is simply that you have to type something on the keyboard to achieve anything at all . |
| 25 | Well I I yeah the only point is there that we do require four referees . |
| 26 | The case against it is precisely that it purports to explain the whole of history and , for that matter , of pre-history , by reference to a total system , and so denies to any of its implicated parts ( social , economic , racial , geographical , religious and so on ) as well as to the actions of its great or good men any separate authenticity . |
| 27 | I ca n't believe knowing er some of the people who do hunt , that their motive is actually that they want to see a fox torn to pieces . |
| 28 | It is afterwards that they get stressed , particularly when they get home . |