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

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1 My , my sister- in-law , she w had to go in just before Christmas , had to rather suddenly she 's was diagnosed in the summer as having diverticulitis and they planned a sort of diet out to keep her really well and she was in terrible pain and they rushed her off for a scan and er she goes privately cos Vernon , I think actually his is BUPA that he 's in , he joined when it first came out and she wrote to me and she said oh I 'm , I just feel so lonely , there 's nobody to talk to , I 've got nobody to see or anything and she felt a bit cos she was n't really that ill
2 All of which is behaviour that the perceptive horse owner will accept .
3 to look at er , a P R job about changing the way those resources are used so that they 're used in the way that 's been talked away , er , talked about tonight which is way that clearly many wo , many women want to see them being used .
4 Then I 'm going to do what is the proper thing to do which is chop that to size
5 There is anxiety that there will be rationalisation and that some colleges and available classes in rural areas will cease to exist .
6 Secondly , there is hope that a further trading connection with the USSR could revive the strong export trade which formerly existed between Italy and USSR .
7 For the first time in many years there is hope that by means of the NHS and Community Care Act of 1990 , imperfect and incomplete though it may be , the fundamental organizational and financial changes needed to foster good community care have been made .
8 And for the future , so long as there is hope that this may speed , I will be your go-between . ’
9 So maybe things are very slow erm but I think there is hope that they are changing .
10 And of course there is music that remains rugged forever — for example Beethoven 's Gross Fuge , of some of Busoni 's late music .
11 There is speculation that Grand Metropolitan , challenging McDonalds for supremacy of the fast food market , could pay up to £16m for the Allied branches .
12 There is speculation that the Government is working to the rule that for every 4 per cent depreciation of the pound , there would be a 1 point rise in base rates to maintain the tightness of monetary policy .
13 He declined to specify the Formula One team 's ownership structure , quote a price or nominate prospective buyers — though , as reported in Tuesday 's Guardian , there is speculation that the team will be taken over by people who want to field an all-Italian line-up , with Emanuele Pirro displacing Britain 's Martin Brundle and joining Stefano Modeno .
14 TVS shares shot ahead by 4½p to 26p on the news and there is speculation that a major battle could be in the wings .
15 It is selling its 20% stake in American cellular communications group McCaw to AT & T and there is speculation that it will use the proceeds to mop up Cellnet .
16 X/Open is in separate discussions with the UN over the organisation 's internal use of open systems , and there is speculation that X/Open 's involvement with the UN might eventually see X/Open president Geoff Morris being elected to the UN 's advisory board .
17 It was no use my saying , " I read in the papers that this happened " , " I believe that this happened " or " There is speculation that this happened " .
18 And there is speculation that crucial evidence may also be gleaned from a security camera in operation close to the scene .
19 And there is speculation that the controversy , which dates back to 1986 , could be settled out of court within the next year .
20 Although he likes , when possible , to keep the weekends free , all too often there is work that has to be done .
21 Generally speaking , there is evidence that the church has always tended to support the hegemony of the state qua state .
22 It is known as a speech output system because there is evidence that a quite separate lexicon is involved in speech perception .
23 Although the recent exodus has acted as a temporary safety valve , there is evidence that the more politically minded opponents of the present regime have stayed behind , knowing that reforms can not be indefinitely postponed .
24 With the boyfriend there is evidence that Mrs Weber killed him and chopped him up with a chain saw , but there is no corpse .
25 None the less , there is evidence that the press had a small influence ( Table 8.5 ) .
26 None the less , there is evidence that the press had a small additional influence .
27 There is evidence that the body clock of ‘ larks ’ runs faster than average , so that there is a tendency for the clock to wake them up earlier — and make them feel tired earlier .
28 There is evidence that the market in pubs , hotels and restaurants has been picking up — we believe it bottomed out six months ago — and that is another welcome move in bringing purchasers out again , ’ he said .
29 Although there has been some success in attempts to halt such ceremonies , or at least to make them less dangerous or humiliating , there is evidence that they are a perennial aspect of group behaviour unlikely to be eradicated .
30 Perhaps Lord Ashley-Cooper was so horrified that he moved to another property , for there is evidence that the Manor reverted to being a tenanted farmhouse and remained thus until it was sold by the Shaftesburys in 1912 to Colonel Canning .
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