Example sentences of "[pron] [is] that we " in BNC.
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| 31 | Yes , it 's that we can never over-emphasise the importance of being cost competitive . |
| 32 | I do n't know whether it 's that we want much , too much |
| 33 | So in that sense , it 's that we 're incestuous . |
| 34 | It 's that we 're struggling on . |
| 35 | So it is that we must also support voluntary action and volunteering as essential in a healthy democracy in a civilised society . |
| 36 | It is also said that he leaves the defence undermanned , but neither charge was proved on Saturday as Barcelona rode adversity in an absorbing match that emphasised , as one knew it would , how hurried and imprecise so much of the British game has become and how necessary it is that we cherish such exceptions as Liverpool , Norwich and Nottingham Forest if the art is not essentially to be driven out . |
| 37 | If they were not told the embarrassing source of these words — and perhaps even if they were — most Asians would give a vigorous nod of approval to the sentiments expressed by Neville Chamberlain when Germany annexed the Sudetenland in 1938 : ‘ How horrible , fantastic , incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing . ’ |
| 38 | The method concerns itself both with what the underlying unit actually is , and also with how likely it is that we are observing a real effect rather than some random one . |
| 39 | This objection helps to reveal why it is that we regard a hierarchical classification as natural . |
| 40 | The notion of an avant-garde sensibility here functions simply as the ‘ other ’ of existing television ( just as much of the most interesting experimental video refunctions existing television as its other ) , a point outside the discourse of actually existing television from which we can argue about what it is that we actually want . |
| 41 | Well , we do see a good deal of what is around us and not simply whatever it is that we happen to be staring at . |
| 42 | It is not that , in the face of a system of chattel slavery , we first insist on counting everyone 's interests equitably and then see if slaves should be liberated ; it is that we first recognise the moral imperative to liberate them , on grounds other than counting equal interests equally . |
| 43 | Apart from confirmation that in dictatorships , scientific corruption flourishes together with the more venal kinds , perhaps it is that we should not accept the recent predictions of Argentina 's early possession of an independent nuclear arsenal without some reservation . |
| 44 | In verses three to five the psalmist reminds us who it is that we are coming to . |
| 45 | If we could say ‘ I know ’ only when we could also say exhaustively how it is that we know , it would create just as much a problem for the sophisticated philosopher as for those of us who are simpler . |
| 46 | This is why all of us will doubt at some point , whatever it is that we believe . |
| 47 | Thus it is that we know as much as we do about the Orynthia and her voyages in the late 1830s . |
| 48 | So it is that we can apply to research of different disciplinary provenance general criteria of appraisal approved by the wider culture of intellectual enquiry . |
| 49 | They seem to have happened periodically over the last 900 million years , and may have been doing so since the early days of Earth ( the longer ago something happened , the less likely it is that we will have tripped over the evidence ) . |
| 50 | But such emotions are themselves informed by the way in which we see the world , by our conceptions of what it is that we find desirable or fearful . |
| 51 | We do not mean merely freedom to do as we like irrespectively of what it is that we like . |
| 52 | Our eyes do not wander randomly around the page when we are reading , but certain sorts of words are fixated more often than others ( O'Regan , 1979 ) , and this means that we must know in advance of a fixation where it is that we are going to look next . |
| 53 | It is that we might , in other than merely a logical sense , have got yesterday but not last night . |
| 54 | It is that we have a single conception of effects , rather than several . |
| 55 | You know , er given enough time and preparation and if we define clearly what it is that we want to analyze , you know I can provide that information er in the form of a report or in a rawish state and we could discuss that . |
| 56 | The less constrained the genre , primarily interactional ‘ chat ’ , for example , the less likely it is that we can confidently state norms of expectation which will generalise even over the experience of the English-speaking population . |
| 57 | But he never explained how it is that we can so easily be led by involuntary desire . |
| 58 | Right , so if it gives of If you heat it in er and it gives of carbon dioxide , have a guess at what it is that we 're heating ? |
| 59 | ‘ It is that we are closely linked , you and I , my love . ’ |
| 60 | Friday twenty eighth of June passes without incident apart from a quick visit from the local constabulary asking us to consider what a dangerous stunt it is that we are trying to pull . |