Example sentences of "is [that] i [verb] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said : ‘ All that has held us together for years is that I 've been working for you . |
| 2 | I went and told them , ‘ One way or another , what 's happened to me is that I 've been burgled … ’ . |
| 3 | You are a very intelligent girl and you have read a great deal — no , I mean it ; one thing you ca n't say is that I have been trying to flatter you — but you do n't know everything , you do n't know the French , the real French ( though the Fourniers are quite an example of one kind ) , you can have no idea of what life among us is like , the attitudes , the demands ; if you like , the values . |
| 4 | My excuse for this lengthy and amateur digression into history is that I have been trying to show how I think geology got into the hands of the theoreticians who were conditioned by the social and political history of their day more than by observations in the field . |
| 5 | What I am most conscious of is that I have been regarded as a controversial figure : until the age of sixty I was seen either as a subversive or as an enfant terrible . |