Example sentences of "[pron] is that [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Opinion surveys suffer from various drawbacks , the most important of which is that they reflect opinion and not necessarily behaviour . |
| 2 | We are led to the conclusion that 11a is grammatically but not semantically deviant by the fact that substitutes for bake which normalise the sentence ( e.g. shake , forsake ) , as a class , have no distinctive semantic attributes ( that is to say , members of the class share no characteristic patterns of co-occurrence with other open set elements that differentiate them from non-members ) ; however , they do share a grammatical peculiarity , which is that they form their past participles with — en . |
| 3 | there 's two elements in relation to the air conditioning itself , er spreading viruses , and we take two preventative actions one of which is that we spray all the air conditioning ducts work quarterly with , what 's known , as a virucide and I relate that to the equivalent of sticking a a toilet block in the toilet , it kills all all known airborne germs sort of thing . |
| 4 | no , because the point is that Labour has not changed it 's course , which is recognizing that at the heart of it 's policies we have to show that we know the world has changed , and we 've got a message to women , which is that we know that you are essential in your role in the family , but we know you 're also essential in the economy , |
| 5 | I think has summed up quite well there I think , which , what everyone 's aims is , which is that we want an effective and efficient police force , which everyone has got confidence in to make sure that it protects citizens against crime in this country , and nothing could be , I do n't think anybody who is erm , civilised in this county or this country would want anything different . |
| 6 | Indeed , we make an effort not to use the phrase for a number of reasons , one of which is that we have been unable to figure out what it means ’ . |
| 7 | Now , er , now back to the main theme , which is that you 've become more business-like , in every sense of the word . |
| 8 | Yes , this is , this is , this er Who 's picking up Laura 's point which is that you get all the contractual arrangements er er done , but I mean it does n't mean you ca n't have the ritual , be it dressed with , you know , er a long |
| 9 | What Steve is saying r recommending to you is that we do n't take up that purchase this year , which is in our budget . |
| 10 | Our pledge to you is that we owe no allegiance to any manufacturer ( though we reserve the right to let their best brains entertain and inform you on these pages ) . |
| 11 | Cos what normally happens is with tetanus , that the reason it kills you is that you stop breathing because your muscles that work your lungs , the diaphragm , the intercostal muscles between the ribs , those seize up and you just stop breathing . |
| 12 | The unspoken message of the video they lend you is that you start the week head-planting in the snow and finish it bouncing imperturbably down virgin slopes . |
| 13 | And er with that in mind , it 's possible that people do want to top up their income , because the one thing I will stress to you is that you do n't want to have to start having to back-pedal er when you retire . |
| 14 | ‘ The reason the police have n't come to question you is that I have n't told them about my suspicions . ’ |
| 15 | It its a big task , em er the thing is that I think that that the first point of call is one is that we get the questionnaire out and see whether you know the one where can we can the questionnaires to all the neighbourhood watch is it , w w we prepare the questionnaire and we get on and send it out , right . |
| 16 | Erm now the impact of those is twofold , one is that we 've got the overspend on the data integrity and the U A three , cos it was n't in the budget at all . |
| 17 | One is that we do make acquisitions , we on , on the whole er , prefer er , organic growth because it is normally more profitable and the prices you have to pay for acquisitions er , tend to put significant premiums on the companies you buy which you may er , in the longer run eventually erm , er , turn into shareholder value . |
| 18 | One is that we employ language rules of the type studied by grammarians and taught in most language textbooks , and that these rules operate between sentences as well as within them . |
| 19 | One is that you tell no one over there that you have met me . |
| 20 | One is that you want to make sure that erm you do everything right . |
| 21 | One is that you have a company car that you are about to lose . |
| 22 | I have two points to make by suggestion : - one is that I think that the final of these related documents should be discretionary I do n't see why you should have to keep the file . |
| 23 | One is that I think in order to overcome some of the objections that that we heard from Leeds yesterday in terms of the erm the urban regeneration policies , that any proposal would would certainly need to be re-relocating from outside the region . |
| 24 | One is that there seem to have been many years when there was little or no nationally-coordinated resistance . |
| 25 | I think the general concept that we is that we do not want to erm envisage we hope we will not envisage proposals which generate a scale of development erm which is quite clearly not related erm to the needs of the Greater York area . |
| 26 | Again the problem there is that you get the hot coals , if it 's a solid fuel fire , er dropping off onto the hearth setting fire to the hearth rug . |
| 27 | What I would be looking for there is that you 've got a council , I do n't know how many people there are , and you 've got a thousand plus tonnes of waste you know you 've got a waste mountain being produced . |
| 28 | The argument for not considering the other 8,538 votes originally given to him is that they have exhausted their potential . |
| 29 | The best thing about him is that I like him . |
| 30 | You , you ha you establish a rapport of listening for a little while to whatever it is that they 've got to say , and their troubles and their anxieties and I was n't happy that |