Example sentences of "that [pers pn] is [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 In print she boasts that she is not in the least attracted by drugs , even scared to touch ‘ ordinary cheerful liquor ’ .
2 If it turns out that she is not like her husband linguistically , the difference is not treated like the difference between miners and public schoolboys .
3 This means that she is up at two-thirty in the morning , ironing small items of foreign clothing , while the plane is due to leave Gatwick at ten-thirty .
4 The good news is that she is back in the studio and discussing a new recording contract with Island .
5 I doubt that she is much like the real Gertrude Lawrence but she is decidedly a class act .
6 And , yes , Edward could point out that we live in a time when the very meaning of the word myth has been debased , that it has come to signify only what is untrue , false , misleading ; and , yes , I could largely agree that it is nevertheless by myths we live , and what matters is how large the contrary truths a myth reconciles in its embrace .
7 It must be remarked at the outset that it is principally between the buyer and seller that rights and obligations exist .
8 He said that it is not about additionality , but about the way that the Government are targeting the money .
9 While we are on the subject , may I also point out that it is not on the FRCC guides that have printed so many incorrect ‘ historical facts ’ .
10 The relief only applies to accommodation that is ‘ part of your main home ’ , so if you are thinking of creating a separate flatlet , you will need to take care that this qualifies and that it is not at risk of being assessed as a commercial let .
11 Some species , Rosa moyesii for example , seed themselves with such abandon that it is not at all unusual to find self-sown seedlings growing freely underneath the shrub , and others are enough to tax the patience of a saint — that is all part of the challenge .
12 It is clear that the Soviet economy is at an impasse , but we have tried to suggest that it is not at the abyss .
13 Another related reason may be that it is not at all clear what it is that is transmitted during inter-hemispheric transfer .
14 Even with the property market at its height — I do not need to remind the House that it is not at the height at the moment — British Rail would not be able to cover the £1.4 billion capital cost out of its profit from property development or out of revenue from running the trains .
15 The government also appears to be under the misapprehension that it is not at present possible to arrive at any one BR station and demand a ticket ( full fare , saver or railcard-discounted ) to any other on the network .
16 It is enough to say that , having adopted the character of Oliver Twist , I have been fortunate in meeting with a kindlier and less formidable response than he ; and while anyone who knows the editor 's capabilities must realise that it is not beyond his powers to write a further introduction of the same delight as that preceding Volume II , it would be unreasonable to complain that in his assessment of the situation the needs of prompt publication have been put first .
17 Recondite though her theme may be , she succeeds , by focusing on its scientific aspects , in demonstrating that it is not without relevance to our own times , as becomes immediately apparent when she finds the origin of the movement in an information explosion .
18 Amid such vibrant colour , the daily sorties into the collapsing , crowded streets near the cemetery become a source of such pleasure that it is not without a degree of reluctance that we finally throw our burdens onto a lorry bound for Sorata .
19 At all events we shall not go wrong in assuming that it is not without good reason that he tells us of so impressive a roll call of nationalities on the day of Pentecost ( 2:5–11 ) .
20 You sometimes hear people say that it is not worth eating differently , or getting to the right weight ; they say they prefer a short and happy life to a long and miserable one .
21 Help them to stick up for themselves and see that it is not worth being treated badly just in order to have a best friend .
22 I am told it was never finished , that it never will be finished , that it is not worth finishing .
23 I say encourage because three out of four dissatisfied customers simply go away disgruntled — having concluded that it is not worth complaining .
24 At Procedure Roll a defender may , very occasionally , succeed in persuading a Court that the pursuer 's case is so hopeless that it is not worth allowing evidence to be heard because even if that evidence was heard , it would not make out a case which would entitle the pursuer to succeed .
25 Or will our message be so weak and insipid that it is not worth having .
26 It needs to be emphasised that in marking intonation , only stressed syllables are marked ; this implies that intonation is carried entirely by the stressed syllables of a tone-unit and that the pitch of unstressed syllables is either predictable from that of stressed syllables or is of so little importance that it is not worth marking .
27 Before the ark disappears from the narrative for the time being ( it does not play a major role again until its triumphal entry into Jerusalem in 2 Samuel 6 , though it does feature in another battle with the Philistines in 1 Samuel 14 ) , it leaves behind one more reminder that it is not to be trifled with .
28 The argument made in this book is that it is not to all land-users .
29 Third , an animal may be brightly coloured as a warning to its enemies that it is not to be trifled with .
30 The Council declared that the Church of Christ is to be found here , but it no longer says that it is not to be found anywhere else as well .
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