Example sentences of "[is] that [pron] [verb] [that] " in BNC.

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1 The lasting impression of these accounts is that everyone agrees that there was a ‘ permissive age ’ , or a process of change that can be described as ‘ permissive ’ , but that no-one can actually agree what constituted ‘ permissiveness ’ .
2 What does stand out is that everyone believes that the profession , its standards and its aims , matter , and they all feel an excitement about the job of acting .
3 The most important issue regarding freedom is that we fear that , far from more people being given control over their lives , when the new system comes into play , fewer people will have control .
4 The reason we want to adopt other people 's beliefs is that we know that everyone wants their own beliefs to be true : because , as we 've seen , truth is what makes our own beliefs useful to us in the way I described earlier , by making our actions succeed in fulfilling our desires .
5 The point about the Urgonian limestones , say , is that we know that they are of about the same age throughout Europe in spite of the fact that fossil evidence shows them to have started and ended at different times in different places .
6 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 ,
7 The next issue is that we know that these prospective inward investors are likely to be looking for a site in reasonably attractive setting .
8 The trap is that we assume that a broad market means a less specialised product at a low price .
9 We seldom read in the tabloid press local police force fails er we may frequently read in the local press in the tabloid press rather , that the Home Secretary has failed and yet what we seem to be saying is that we believe that all the responsibility should be local , all that responsibility , all the blame when things go wrong should go to the Home Secretary .
10 What matters is that we realise that they are being friendly , so we shout back , ‘ It 's a lovely day today , is n't it ? ’ , or some such thing which they probably will not hear anyway , but the idea of friendliness has been transferred , and both people are happy , although the words were quite unintelligible .
11 A third problem with the idea that everything is determined is that we feel that we have free will — that we have the freedom to choose whether to do something .
12 The crucial difference between a social democratic view of the state and the one taken here , is that we recognise that the bureaucracy itself is political in the course of exercising its executive powers , particularly in the realm of policy-making at the upper levels and in implementation at the lower levels .
13 The important thing in dealing with our self-image is that we recognise that we are different creatures with different skills and abilities , and that we have a very realistic idea of what our skills and inabilities actually are .
14 I have had my own opinion confirmed with the advice from the business convenor and the vice convenor , and that is that we determine that this is in fact a counter motion that you have spoken to because it is against the spirit of the deliverance .
15 We also showed that grade two do significantly better than grade three , but most importantly perhaps is that we showed that patients with a vascular count that are less than twenty one do significantly better than patients with a vascular count of greater or equal to twenty one .
16 The reason why the Opposition do not like Question Time and try to drown my right hon. Friend out is that they know that we are right in everything that we say and that the country will not support them on their policies .
17 The point about these last two demonstrations is that they emphasise that spinning depends on stalling and keeping the aircraft stalled .
18 Where Marxists and elitists diverge from pluralist approaches is that they argue that the influence of outside pressures on government decision-making is limited to those exercised by specific economic or social classes .
19 What is denied by the defendant and what is the issue of trial is that they deny that they were ever instructed by Mr er to save such a measure or that it would have been appropriate to serve them or that at any stage Mr ever asked to be advised on any way open to him to get out of the contract er as alleged .
20 The trouble with all of these theories of Broca 's aphasia , and others like them , is that they assume that a single deficit is involved , i.e. that the syndrome is a ‘ theoretical syndrome ’ ; and it is becoming increasingly clear that this is not so .
21 One major reason why many individuals may shy away from a very redistributive budget or a generous negative income tax scheme is that they fear that attempts to share the economic cake ( GNP ) more evenly will reduce its size because of disincentive effects .
22 What is certain is that they discovered that electrical stimulation of some parts of the cortex caused movements in the limbs on the opposite side of the body from the part of the brain that had been stimulated .
23 The limitation of these simple answers is that they suggest that the reader has a relatively , if not completely , passive role .
24 One analysis of the function of these duties is that they ensure that the directors of the company have sufficient discretion and flexibility to be able to manage the company efficiently , whilst precluding them from exercising this discretion contrary to the interests of the shareholders .
25 Perhaps the best proof that the previous figures were flawed is that they suggested that Asia 's weight in world output had fallen from 7.9% in 1985 to 7.2% in 1990 , although it was by far the fastest growing region .
26 One reason that many teachers find the idea of teaching in role worrying is that they feel that once they have embarked on a role they will have to stick with it for the rest of the lesson .
27 The attraction of schema theories for memory researchers is that they predict that memory for stimuli will depend on the degree to which such stimuli are similar to pre-existing schemata .
28 One conclusion is that they note that further mechanisation ( beyond the composite longwall described above ) was having major effects on work organisation .
29 view is that one hopes that my hopes are that of the direct report you er worked for erm is equal and competent and is erm in a sense courageous and brave and that they realize that sometimes to get the best results you have to do things which are perhaps challenging and orthodox
30 The second is that I fear that , however compelling the principle of justice may be , it would never be sufficient to persuade a government to propose its legislative recognition by Parliament ; caution , otherwise known as the Treasury , would never allow this to happen .
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