Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [pron] is that " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the looks of it it is that as I say a screw 's keeping that thing on . |
| 2 | A case-study involves the in-depth study of a single example of whatever it is that the sociologist wishes to investigate . |
| 3 | Well I mean , if we 're talking about sort of and they 're looking for a sense of identity of whatever it is that they 're having of |
| 4 | The first thing to notice about functionalism is that it does not fare any better than behaviourism in providing an account of what it is that V knows and BS does not , for BS could know all about V 's functional or covertly behavioural states ; so there is no lack of knowledge that his deficit could consist in . |
| 5 | He observes people and places with a wry and uncanny sense of what it is that matters about them . |
| 6 | But such emotions are themselves informed by the way in which we see the world , by our conceptions of what it is that we find desirable or fearful . |
| 7 | In all such cases the prevalence of such actions and the possibilities for their control are better accounted for by addressing the question of what it is that usually inhibits the actions , rather than by accounting for how the motivations arise . |
| 8 | We do not mean merely freedom to do as we like irrespectively of what it is that we like . |
| 9 | Aristotle 's argument concerns the question of what it is that makes an action ‘ voluntary ’ , done of a person 's own free will , and in order to answer this question , he distinguished between actions whose origin was ‘ inside ’ a person , and those whose origin was ‘ outside ’ , which resulted from external influences or pressure or compulsion . |
| 10 | The approach to understanding organisations that concentrates its focus on people within organisations needs to be aware of what it is that motivates people within those organisations . |
| 11 | The Scottish summary of what it is that parents value in teachers and what makes a poor ( as well as a good ) teacher ( SED 1989:7 — 11 ) is in some ways an up-to-date version of parts of Enquiry 1 ( Schools Council 1968 ) . |
| 12 | It 's extremely unwise to quote your Chairman of Committee , if the Chairman of the committee actually A has n't been informed that he 's being quoted , or B has not actually agreed with what it is that you 're quoting . |
| 13 | You know , I 'm easy going and I can cope with that , and get on and do the job with whatever it is that 's got to be done . |
| 14 | Bottom up processing is where you start with the input information , whatever that might be and then you , based on that input information , you extract or inp or extract more meaning from the input until you end up with whatever it is that you recognise . |
| 15 | I think too that we should reflect upon who it is that receives the blame er when policing falls below the standards which we would all think appropriate . |
| 16 | Thus , in the following , he can naturally be interpreted as referring to whoever it is that John refers to : ( 39 ) John came in and he lit a fire We will return to anaphora , but just note here that it is perfectly possible , as Lyons ( 1977a : 676 ) points out , for a deictic term to be used both anaphorically and deictically . |
| 17 | In his public utterances Bohr was always very cautious about committing himself to what it is that actually is . |
| 18 | We were trying to put a finger on what it is that humans and moles and earthworms and airliners and watches have in common with each other , but not with blancmange , or Mont Blanc , or the moon . |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | All four books reveal a steady concern with imitation and interpretation , and to read them together is to be clearer about what it is that the writer intends us to think that he thinks about things . |
| 21 | The notion of an avant-garde sensibility here functions simply as the ‘ other ’ of existing television ( just as much of the most interesting experimental video refunctions existing television as its other ) , a point outside the discourse of actually existing television from which we can argue about what it is that we actually want . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , if we are to define what it is that influences our decisions whether or not to indulge our motivations towards crime we inevitably make suppositions about human needs or requirements , which are in turn predicated on assumptions about what it is that gives us pleasure or pain . |
| 23 | But before turning to the central question of what ideals men and women should adopt , it is worth speculating a little about what it is that causes these observable differences of moral outlook . |
| 24 | Every definition of it can be swiftly undermined , so there 's inevitable uncertainty about what it is that we should be celebrating . |
| 25 | It 's getting rather hard to think about what it is that lets me see them as distinct individuals if all that they 're doing are |
| 26 | Erm , could I ask you to just share with us briefly , er , not in great detail , but , just a few words about what it is that you want to influence somebody about . |
| 27 | so you 're very clear about what it is that you want |
| 28 | when you 're clear about what it is that you want you can be assertive |
| 29 | We talked about it being clear , being clear about what it is that you want . |
| 30 | Okay what I ask you to do as with being assertive , first of all be clear about what it is that you 're going to try and do , be clear about what it is and what the situation is , explain it to the partner and then try it and let's see how it doing . |