Example sentences of "[is] [that] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not the buying them that 's cunning , it 's just that I ca n't help being grateful ( I did n't actually say I was grateful , but I was n't sharp ) , it 's that he presents them so humbly , with such an air of please-don't-thank-me and I-deserve-it-all . |
| 2 | The only good news to offset my ‘ disgrace ’ was that Father had proved such a success at Marconi 's that he had been appointed an assistant manager in the research department dealing with radio materials . |
| 3 | It was no fault of Harry 's that he had been mistakenly put in the care of such people , although there was nothing to be said against the Pritchetts — a decent , hard-working family — other than their class . |
| 4 | The strange boy 's eyes seemed to penetrate so deeply into Willie 's that he felt sure he could read his thoughts . |
| 5 | Kevin Irving 's ‘ father ’ writes to admit that he 's Pope , Chas F Garvey 's that he has been faithful to his wife for 42 years , and Mark Ambrose 's that he has a dash of myxomatosis ( to be fair , the father is a rabbit ) . |
| 6 | Kevin Irving 's ‘ father ’ writes to admit that he 's Pope , Chas F Garvey 's that he has been faithful to his wife for 42 years , and Mark Ambrose 's that he has a dash of myxomatosis ( to be fair , the father is a rabbit ) . |
| 7 | If Armstrong has a disadvantage , then it 's that he has n't got a passenger seat . |
| 8 | Perhaps it 's that he 's made me look at myself and see that what I believe is old and stuffy . |
| 9 | All that 's stopping him being welcomed into the great freemasonry of the over-fifties is that he happens to be thirty-two . |
| 10 | ‘ The miracle is that he lived so long . |
| 11 | All I know is that he lived in Glasgow . |
| 12 | The reason we know that God recognises this dimension in the human personality is that he goes to such great lengths to make it very clear that he loves us , and one of his primary commands to us is that we must love one another . |
| 13 | Their father sometimes baths them , often puts them to bed , irons , sews on his buttons and makes cakes , but as far as the kids are concerned , the main thing about Daddy is that he goes off to work in that magical place known as The Office . |
| 14 | The biggest danger of Mr MacGregor 's decision is that he perpetuates a system that fails to reward good classroom teaching . |
| 15 | But what remains important about Barthes 's substantive work is that he points to cultural phenomena in the everyday realm that are ( or were ) regarded as insignificant — they are , he reveals , laden with meaning and social and political significance . |
| 16 | The personal tragedy that befalls Gibson 's character in ‘ Forever Young ’ is that he loses his childhood sweetheart in an accident before he has plucked up the courage to propose marriage . |
| 17 | His motive for doing so is that he thinks that English verse has been ill-served by prosodists in the past . |
| 18 | So he suddenly found that he preferred to write poems but what he 's actually saying in that essay , is that he thinks poems are living things , just as animals are and that they 're they 're difficult to catch . |
| 19 | Anyone in the building can breathe and move but is unable to see any thing , so the theory is that he wanders clueless in a cloud until the security-squad charges in with a chemical that breaks the foam up . |
| 20 | I said he seemed like a nice kid , and Hart said : ‘ The story is that he killed somebody , when he was thirteen years old . ’ |
| 21 | The rumour here is that he killed MacQuillan and now he 's committed suicide . ’ |
| 22 | What is most important , however , is that he embodies them in a distinction , crucially important for his thought , between two sorts of science : ‘ indefinite science ’ , which ‘ consists in the knowledge of the causes of all things ’ , and the study of some ‘ limited ’ question about the ‘ cause of some determined appearance ’ such as heat . |
| 23 | A felicitous footnote to that incident is that he got his cake after all . |
| 24 | What gets me about this guy Alderson is that he served in the country area of Cornwall , and he makes all these proposals about inner-city policing ; now how the hell would he know anything about the inner city ? |
| 25 | ‘ All we can hope from this meeting is that he admits being the hoaxer . |
| 26 | The fact is that he blew up badly . ’ |
| 27 | But what persuades me that we have not heard the last of Havel the writer is that he combines a total commitment to social freedom and individual responsibility with an extraordinary ironic detachment . |
| 28 | The extraordinary thing about Greene is that he wrote over decades and changed so fluently from a pre-war to a post-war writer . |
| 29 | The other is that he heard me following , and staged the attack on himself , with the help of some accomplice unknown — for it could n't have been done alone , could it ? — to put himself in the clear , and immobilise me long enough for the other person to get away , and the body to be well downstream . |
| 30 | The theological answer is that He feels at home anywhere because He is at home everywhere . |