Example sentences of "[is] that [pron] [vb past] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My guess — it 's no more than that — is that somebody came around earlier and told Mrs Tanner that there 'd be a couple of hundred quid in it for her if you showed up . |
| 2 | Well , perhaps the trouble is that we wrote down Maxwell 's equations in a stationary frame of reference . |
| 3 | What I do n't like is that we went back did n't we , I do n't know if you saw my thing to David where we report back on a fax , report every month |
| 4 | My biggest disappointment is that we ended up playing ‘ route one ’ football in the last 20 minutes . |
| 5 | But what he probably means is that they set up signs for |
| 6 | More likely is that she wrote down ( accurately ) the beginning , remembered the sound of the end , and linked them together in what seemed to her a possible sequence . |
| 7 | One claim guaranteed to draw fire from Kylie is that she missed out on a childhood because of showbiz . |
| 8 | All I do know for sure is that I woke up loving him . |
| 9 | It 's a testament to how captivating The Orb 's music is that I got off on this so much , completely alone and without recourse to anything stronger than the Institute 's lukewarm lager . |
| 10 | The truth is that I kept on having mental lapses , during which I could hear every word that was being spoken , understand the meaning of each word and even of some phrases , but could n't make these disparate utterances add up to anything that made sense . |
| 11 | And as I walk back through the streets the other thing fuelling this self-criticism is that I turned up there with the gun . |
| 12 | The wood is alder and the deal is that I scaled down the body a little bit . |
| 13 | One general outcome of the comparison between the original and the reconstructions is that it brought out the very blandness and the almost self-conscious " flatness ' of Hemingway 's style . |
| 14 | One of the interesting things about my reminiscing is that it stirred up memories for a lot of other people , too . |
| 15 | The first is that it turned out , political intentions notwithstanding , that the officers of the NCC saw in the National Curriculum a way to ensure that all pupils would share a common curriculum , a goal they already espoused , and that the DES found it unexceptionable to present the National Curriculum in this way . |
| 16 | What is clear is that it evolved out of the neolithic Cretan religion and that the religion of the classical Greeks at least in part grew out of it . |
| 17 | The fact is that he blew up badly . ’ |
| 18 | The extraordinary thing about Greene is that he wrote over decades and changed so fluently from a pre-war to a post-war writer . |
| 19 | The general legend is that he took off from Twinwood 's airfield , flew over the channel and was lost over the channel ; his plane iced up . |
| 20 | The long and the short of it is that he came in to replace Andy … |
| 21 | He says all they know is that he fell out of a window at a party . |
| 22 | ‘ In those days it was a pound made , a pound spent , ’ says Philip , whose proud boast is that he started off without any outside financial backing . |
| 23 | Ginger 's greatest single claim to fame is that he set up a record for an inside-forward that has never been beaten at our club , when he scored five goals in the game against Southend at The Palace on 25 September 1909 . |