Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [is] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trouble about that is that nobody in England has ever sounded terribly enthusiastic about the dismemberment of England . |
| 2 | All I can say about that is that it must have been awfully feeble acid to make your visions come out so pedestrian as this . |
| 3 | ( All you can say about that is that it 's a change from bagpipes . ) |
| 4 | The third thing about that is that it represents us saying continuum . |
| 5 | One of the nice aspects of a task such as that is that I think we , as professional physicists — and I 'm a physicist too erm we , as professional physicists , feel there 's a right way of doing something because it 's the way we learnt and we 've got used to , and we tend to instil this idea into other people . |
| 6 | The reason for that is that they 're in a very good position in the market now , they , they can negotiate very good deals on houses they 're buying , there 's a very good choice of properties available , people by the mid nineteen nineties will look back on nineteen ninety as probably the time to have bought , when house prices were at their cheapest . |
| 7 | Now he does n't actually make the concession I think it 's consistent of what he says , that he ought to concede that direct democracy might be better at improving the citizens , because after all the citizens have much more to do on in service of the state but his view is that direct democracy has the opposite failure to guardianship , that while it might be better at improving citizens it 's absolutely hopeless in managing the affairs of the state and his reasons for that is that we need experts with experience in order to carry out the affairs of government and although these people ought ultimately to be held responsible to the people , people should n't sit in judgment them in every one of their decisions . |
| 8 | Oh sorry erm we are expect the business this year to break even it broke even last year , erm and the reason for that is that we have expanded business very rapidly , last year we had only thirty five stores this year we 'll have fifty and we will probably have a similar sort of expansion programme for next year . |
| 9 | The reason for that is that we do all our selling on the phone . |
| 10 | And the reason for that is that we ask you to do three things when you get in front of the advertiser having got his commitment . |
| 11 | The reason for that is that we 're putting tot total strangers on to our clients premises for three weeks . |
| 12 | ‘ I think the reason for that is that we spend about 45 minutes hitting balls on the range and 10 minutes putting before we tee off . |
| 13 | The reason for that is that it is we are operating in a in an environment of planning policy restraint . |
| 14 | Erm right so because trade in er trade in agricultural goods has fallen , one one of the reason for that is because there 's been a lot protectionism on er agricultural goods the other side of that coin is that protectionism in manufactured goods has has fallen okay . |
| 15 | And my own feeling about this is that we do have to move more to planned expansion . |
| 16 | What is interesting about this is that they clearly do not know the history of the form ; they are unaware that the rule was made so rigidly in the first place to suit the whims of anti-feminists . |
| 17 | What 's bad about this is that they do n't take drugs — they 've never touched them — but they want to sell them . |
| 18 | Now one of the interesting things about this is that they 've worked out , in order to erm achieve our sales forecast , erm the impact of recruitment for each branch is that we need a net growth in branch of one plus one for every er on every month . |
| 19 | What 's good about this is that it does n't take too much time . |
| 20 | M my view about this is that it 's it it is it is that this exercise is that it is er something which has been done very quickly and to my mind is not capable of providing the level of assessment that would be required . |
| 21 | Now we do n't have any new things , I should have Thank you for asking the question because we 're trying to give the impression of a medieval house the what 's special about this is that it 's a medieval house as it looked when it was new . |
| 22 | My concern about this is that I do n't see how a view can be taken at a strategic level on something which ultimately can be only ascertained on a site specific basis . |
| 23 | one of the nice parts about this is that you are getting paid on ninety percent cycle . |
| 24 | So the important thing about this is that you can not , you can not just say modern equals bad , and trad is good because you must in order to argue Paul examine the |
| 25 | Okay well the only thing about this is and we 're going to send this to you and er you take it out and get Rita 's address . |
| 26 | Part of the point of an exercise such as this is that it can be supplemented with a variety of additional linguistic models which enable the analysis to be developed in a number of different directions . |
| 27 | The humiliation for some is that they can not talk to their English-speaking grandchildren . |
| 28 | Above all , very few of them meet more than one of the criteria used in the inner-city for measuring network strength , and the essential reason for this is that their network ties are not mainly territorial . |
| 29 | The main reason for this is that they do n't know how to and probably neither do a lot of their English solicitors . |
| 30 | Part of the reason for this is that they make the interpretation of information derived from assessments unproblematical . |