Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [that] [pron] 's " in BNC.

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1 What I 'm not prepared to accept is that he 's entitled to lead a charmed life while others struggle and falter and fail .
2 Well I think , I 've got ta say that I think it might be ha it might be working better now with there but when not there and we go to and say can you tell me where X Y Z is , the response you 're gon na get is I 'm sorry I do n't know and the reason she wo n't know is that she 's never bothered to ask because she 's not talking so it 's okay while there but it wo n't be when she 's not because I 've had that , sorry I do n't know .
3 ‘ One of the things that has been said is that it 's actually very difficult to get a purchaser for your shares on the USM even though in theory it 's an open market .
4 What is being said is that it 's intended to keep what 's regarded as a highly successful regime going on existing lines .
5 My attitude to ageing is that it 's inevitable so there 's very little you can do about it .
6 Yeah , because the point that 's being made is that it 's only the flower of the rose which has all these properties , it 's not the whole bush itself , presumably .
7 What these marauding fund-raisers do n't understand is that there 's only three of me , and two of those are wives and working mothers .
8 ‘ What Governor Clinton does n't understand is that it 's the people in the voting booths that matter . ’
9 ‘ But what you do n't understand is that it 's Leo I 'm doing it for . ’
10 About Lily , all I know is that she 's not well .
11 I 've never used a yardage in my life ; all I know is that it 's a 7-iron to the middle of the green . ’
12 ‘ I may not like London over much but I do know a bit about the place and one thing I know is that it 's big , bloody big .
13 Okay right erm , so what seems to emerge is that it 's economic factors that are the most important er determinants affecting the migrant 's decision .
14 ‘ The last I heard was that he 's on the run from the authorities in Beirut . ’
15 Thus when the theist says ‘ regularity in nature is evidence of God 's existence ’ , Ayer replies : ‘ All you are saying is that there 's regularity in nature ’ .
16 But , but they 're saying that , ooh apart from I think the what they 're really saying is that it 's better to wait till in
17 What that exhibition in fact is doing is that it 's not saying here 's a new spirit in painting , it 's saying that we the organizers , having not bothered to show you these things in the sixties and seventies , will now allow you to see them in the eighties , and we will pretend there 's a new spirit because we think it 's good for the art world to have new fashions , new movements , or at least something new going on that will produce some kind of emotional pressure .
18 But what you have to understand is that he 's the biggest thing in these villages , so he has to be the biggest thing in my life .
19 ‘ What you seem to forget is that it 's on sixteen years since you left this house .
20 What I 've found is that there 's a lot more complexity and problems in happiness , many more layers , than I 'd imagined .
21 You know , so , I mean , in a way , it 's more for a new parish council coming together erm you know , perhaps one of the , the most important things we have to learn is that it 's , it is difficult to be very specific because you know we 're not an action committee .
22 What , what 'd happened is that there 's a concrete span right at the back , and they 've the inner course off it , but the external bit built off the door frame .
23 The other different thing I think is that it 's more of a one way communication .
24 Er , I also wanted to raise the issue of er the public service section in respect to er this because there 's something prob perhaps not actually tackled in the resolution but equally er important I think is that it 's actually getting the resources into er er down to the br branch level and er if we took this resolution literally , er what it would actually mean would be that er in har with harmonization of agreements we would be handing over er our majority on the manual workers , public service workers to , so obviously we got ta take this resolution very seriously , but consider its implications and the relevance of the word appropriate because I do n't think that we want to be er handed over to come July the first er single table bargaining where we are an absolute minority and where th th that union merge that 's taking place is obviously hostile to our union .
25 And that 's where a lot of it and she still think 's that he 's
26 ‘ All that means is that he 's your latest disciple . ’
27 What that means is that there 's a whole new way of thinking about what sorts of tasks can people actually use computers to do so the offices of the future may well have no typewriters , but just micro computers tied into an information system , and that presents , I think , great problems for people .
28 Now I , they could , erm one thing that I found b b b b picked up from doing my own reading and studying was that it 's always good to go through with the customer step by step which is to a certain extent what we do do
29 Well , i i if I , the , on one of the comments I 'd make is that it 's the only time I 've ever known the accounting profession to do businessmen a favour by forcing them to face up to what the costs of the consequences of their actions are and this has as James said led to looking quite carefully and I think it 's difficult to quantify the cost at the moment for a variety of reasons .
30 ‘ What I was going to say is that it 's not working out , is it ?
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