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

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1 But Mr Bliss is right that we have to assume that the abductors are politically motivated terrorists — ‘ '
2 My hon. Friend is right that we have the most generous system in the developed world for supporting students .
3 ‘ It is only that I have never been proposed to so abruptly , so boldly before . ’
4 He can measure every clause of what the income is , against what the expenditure is so that we have some control to ensure that the church life grows and we do n't stumble .
5 the purpose of updating is so that you have current information , yes
6 A second reason is perhaps that we have not obtained many of the much-trumpeted benefits that we were promised from the original Common Market .
7 Our problem is not that we have the wrong answers to particular doubts but that we do not have the right attitude to doubt in general .
8 The reason for setting out these reservations at such length is not that we have any doubts about the value to consumers of credit cost information .
9 Presumably some patrol ship on the high seas might log messages in this way , but it is clear that , as humans , our experience of utterances is not that we have recorded in memory a list of utterances to which are attached standard tags specifying time and place in these terms .
10 It is not that you have to be ‘ good ’ , just stop believing you are ‘ bad ’ .
11 When you have finished the novel it is not that you have really finished it , but that you have decided to do no more work on it .
12 It is not that I have no reason to submit to the moral law and can do as I please ; I am left with no reason even to do as I please .
13 ‘ It is not that I have n't got time for girls .
14 It is not that I have forgotten what other people are like .
15 It is just that they have both been at it too often recently .
16 ‘ It is n't to say The Wedding Present just treat it like a job , it is just that they have natural courtesy and manners .
17 It is just that they have no other choice .
18 Once again these hidden costs have been part of the investment-need right from the beginning — it is just that they have not been looked at closely enough .
19 ‘ I suppose it is just that I have led a more open life than you .
20 Blanche : I guess it is just that I have — old-fashioned ideals !
21 Yet it is here that we have to distinguish most clearly between a technical invention and a technology , and then further between a technology and its actual or possible social relations .
22 It is n't that we have n't any standards left in my time ; it 's just that they 're different , do n't you see that ?
23 For many people the biggest problem with using a computer is simply that you have to type something on the keyboard to achieve anything at all .
24 ‘ It is simply that I have different ideas than the gentlemen who give places to men … . ’ .
25 It is then that we have a sense of wonder and extreme well-being .
26 The conclusion on predators is therefore that they have minimal effects on small mammal populations when numbers are high , that they have no braking effect when numbers are increasing , that they may have some effect when numbers are declining , but their major effect is when numbers are low , when they may also delay the recovery phase of the population cycle ( Southern , 1979 ) .
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