Example sentences of "[pers pn] [is] that [subord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Maybe the best way of putting it is that if you were abroad and on the town , Con would find a licensed brothel where the girls all had health checks , while the riff-raff might sometimes take the risk of picking up a likely-looking tart in a bar . |
| 32 | The only way we can actually go about it is that if we use these cramps and if you remember me telling you , or I do hint every now and then , make sure you keep the cramps straight parallel to the rails , and that 's the reason why because it 'll fall straight , now if something 's in twist and we want to bring it back again , what you do is if it 's in twist that way , you put the cramp as I 've done these slightly up |
| 33 | What I say about it is that if they are put off they should phone the police . |
| 34 | By the looks of it it is that as I say a screw 's keeping that thing on . |
| 35 | The notion which lies behind it is that where there is a moral duty to speak out , speakers should not hold their tongues for fear of writs . |
| 36 | ‘ What does amuse me is that although all the erotica and pornography are readily available , hypocrisy triumphs in the way they are stored . |
| 37 | ‘ I think the only lasting effect it 's had on me is that if I get married , it 's got to be forever . |
| 38 | What this means to you or me is that if we happen to fancy a cup of the most expensive tea in the world , we would have to hurry off to Knightsbridge this month and shell out £35 for a quarter of a pound of Indian brew named Castleton . |
| 39 | What impresses me is that when the causes of this ancient conflict have been forgotten , except by those who have made a study of it , this monument remains , crudely chiselled and doubtless seldom visited , testament to three modest souls who died for what they believed in and who are otherwise lost to history . |
| 40 | What is interesting about them is that while the development corporations acquired powers that gave them a great deal of autonomy within their own territories , there is today a variety of questions to be raised about the extent to which their ‘ success ’ was secured at the expense of other policies to which they ‘ ought ’ to have related . |
| 41 | What can be said for them is that if the High Priest is acting in the fullest awareness at present attainable by his people , it is right for him to perform the sacrifice , just as it would be right for a Western onlooker to try to dissuade him ; he is not like a Nazi who has voluntarily shut himself off from the knowledge of biology and history and the personal sensitivity attained by the culture of the Weimar Republic . |
| 42 | Bill and Kath , along with their loyal staff have put virtually a lifetime 's effort into acquiring the immense amount of stock contained at PAS , and the one thing that really concerns them is that if anything should ever happen to either of them , what would be the future for all the stock ? |
| 43 | but if you think about it , there is the hard ones can have a lot better ca n't they , I mean the only thing that 'll actually harm them is that if you get poked in the eye or something and it shatters the lens cos they are actually |
| 44 | What makes you nervous about them is that when you go to dinner with them , they pump up the chair . |
| 45 | First , one thread running through them is that where A is the person who made the deposit but B is the person beneficially entitled to the deposit , B is the material person for the purposes of the protection scheme . |
| 46 | What concerns us is that if those things are done outside the IASC 's control , it threatens to undermine our credibility . |
| 47 | However , the major point here for us is that if the chosen word is central to the category meaning which is to be conveyed then it will be produced without modification . |