Example sentences of "[noun] that [pron] is [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem is that many people tend to decide far too soon concerning religion that there is nothing there to search for — nothing important to be bothered about . |
| 2 | Be that as it may , the judges assumed this duty in 1292 and there are dicta from time to time in the succeeding centuries that it is one they have no power to give up . |
| 3 | Accurate information about epilepsy is essential to avoid the perception that it is something to be ashamed of or feared . |
| 4 | In men it is rare and should always be checked out with your health care practitioner because it may be an indication that there is something else wrong in the urinary system . |
| 5 | Grazers have the enormous advantage that there is plenty of their favourite food available , all around them , stretching for as far as the eye can see and regrowing time and again regardless of how much they crop it . |
| 6 | The oil sheikhs at least have the excuse that it is their countries ' natural wealth that they are frittering away , not the fruits of the toil of their peoples . |
| 7 | An abandoning of hope that there is something — anything better . |
| 8 | If , on the other hand , I point to an object in my immediate surroundings and say " this chair " , then , unless I am deliberately lying or trying to mislead , I indicate an implicit assumption on my part that there is something out there , something external to my act of pointing , which I take to be a chair . |
| 9 | I know from personal experience that there is nothing more wearing and wearying than continually being knocked backwards and sideways just when you think you have something on the go . |
| 10 | It requires us to admit that having a pain in one 's foot is really having a pain ( in the void , so to speak ) , and associating it with one 's foot , such association being in the form , say , of a judgement that there is something the matter with one 's foot . |
| 11 | Franca said to the doctor , ‘ Dr Hensman , perhaps you could explain to Professor Vallar that there is nothing he can do . |
| 12 | We need to convince both the parent and the child that there is something attractive to offer . |
| 13 | One former employee at Church House recalls occasions when he has intervened in staffing decisions more properly the sphere of General Synod on the basis that it is he who writes the cheques . |
| 14 | Also , there is often the suspicion that there is something wrong with a business that has to use factoring to raise money . |
| 15 | The source added : ‘ Di told Enya that she is her number one fan , and they have since met again and have now become quite good friends . ’ |
| 16 | The disappointment in the parents , the justified reproach that they do not get from the parents what they need , leads to youth 's contempt of civilization , of cultural tradition , and to the opinion that there is nothing to be learned from the history of human development . |
| 17 | Responding to the charge that he is one , he wrote : ‘ Later scientific theories are better than earlier ones for solving puzzles in the often quite different environments to which they are applied . |
| 18 | It leads either to problems about the relation between God and the world ( for example , to a denial that it is His creation ) or , as in the case of ‘ Epicureans , Hobbists , and the like ’ , to the attempt to reduce everything to matter . |
| 19 | Good lad that he is he gave them £20 . |
| 20 | Throughout Marx 's work he stresses , as he had done for labour , the fantastic nature of the capitalist concept of property , the fantastic notion that there is something of our personality in the things or places we own . |
| 21 | Obviously different social groups have a varying ability to articulate these concerns , but there is a widely shared general notion that there is something valuable — ‘ the British way of life ’ — which would be undermined by translation into an overwhelmingly Catholic country . |
| 22 | The notion that there is nothing more to the idea of parliamentary sovereignty than that Parliament is more powerful than the Crown has a strange ring to today 's ears . |
| 23 | Ego relishes any notion that there is one ‘ true ’ religion , which you happen to belong to ! |
| 24 | As a result , there is now a widespread supposition that there is nothing whatever of any theoretical validity or pedagogic value in behaviourist thinking . |
| 25 | One facile answer I have heard , or read , to the question : How do you tell a first edition ? is : When there is no evidence that it is anything else . |
| 26 | That kind of mystical knowledge that there is something incredibly black around the corner . |
| 27 | The importance of organising a maintenance and repairs service has already been mentioned in Chapter I. The knowledge that there is someone on call if the machine is n't working is very reassuring . |
| 28 | Perhaps most of all , it needs staying power , realism and a belief that it is something worth working for . |
| 29 | In this survey , I have elected to concentrate on English presses , in the belief that it is they that will be largely sought by English collectors ; but I am much aware of the many fine examples in other countries , not least in America , where such names as Bruce Rogers of the Riverside Press , Cambridge , Mass. , Frederic Goudy of the Village Press , Park Ridge , Illinois ( and later Marlborough , New York ) and Daniel Berkeley Updike , who set up the Merrymount Press , will always be honoured . |
| 30 | While there are close affinities between education provided in a state and a private school , much of the argument does in the end turn on the belief that there is something different in kind in the educational experience gained by a child in a local community school and one in a private school catering for a particular income group . |