Example sentences of "is [that] [pron] [vb -s] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The only thing that can be said is that somebody has just snuffed out a very special person who was going to achieve an incredible amount in life . |
| 2 | She tells Hello ! of her wishes for the baby : ‘ One is that everything goes well at the birth . |
| 3 | The thing about my life , he wrote , is that everything has always been too late . |
| 4 | The remarkable thing is that one gets exactly the same kind of fringes if one replaces the source of light by a source of particles such as electrons with a definite speed ( this means that the corresponding waves have a definite length ) . |
| 5 | What does matter is that something seems seriously wrong with Gaia . |
| 6 | ‘ What I suspect is that someone has deliberately caused delays in delivery of leather and has been undercutting your father 's prices . ’ |
| 7 | Her main fault is that she takes too seriously the allusive jokes in Asquith 's letters . |
| 8 | Wahler and Dumas ( 1986 ) suggest that in these families the only predictable response that the child receives from the mother is that she behaves aggressively when he does . |
| 9 | Part of her power is that she has always been there for her children , part of her sadness is that they have betrayed that care by what she sees as dereliction of duty . |
| 10 | So the work remains , in some sense , circular : but what is more important to our understanding of the poem , as opposed to the misadventures of the poet , is that there has also been a change of genre . |
| 11 | ‘ Our message is that there has never been a time like this to pick up a bargain , ’ a spokeswoman said . |
| 12 | The truth is that there has always been an element of unreality in this view . |
| 13 | The upshot is that there has indeed been a battle of ideas — and the Conservatives have won it . |
| 14 | The reason for the density method 's increased efficiency is that there has indeed been some improvement in the estimate of h* ( n ) . |
| 15 | My one , half-hearted reservation is that there seems just a hint that the ‘ rural ’ artist with his scenes of idyllic country peace has an easier task . |
| 16 | The advantage the pure watercolour has over all other media is that it depends greatly on the light passing through the colour being reflected back from the white paper . |
| 17 | The mark of a good organisation is that it responds positively when things get tough . |
| 18 | One drawback is that it responds only to quick changes in humidity , but the inventors point out this should not be a problem with a fuel gauge . |
| 19 | The advantage of this structure is that it responds swiftly to meet most developments whether from competition , government or consumer bodies . |
| 20 | One of the strengths of this approach is that it becomes much more immediately apparent why certain issues are felt to be important . |
| 21 | One consequence of augmenting the focus registers as in SPAR is that it becomes more common for candidates to be separated only by a weak focusing preference . |
| 22 | The great advantage of this approach is that it gets away from picking out odd texts from the bible to ‘ prove ’ one thing or another and asks after the underlying message . |
| 23 | The interest of this triple acclamation is that it sounds emphatically and oddly hellenistic ( cp . |
| 24 | The main criticism about information provided to employees is that it arrives too late . |
| 25 | The advantage of the pen system in Eo 's machine is that it does away with the keyboard , so enabling applications to be written for all language forms — non-Roman script like Japanese or Arabic for instance . |
| 26 | The appeal of Brand A is that it does all the work for the slimmer . |
| 27 | But the trouble with the picture is that it does absolutely nothing with its various prognostications except play the fool with them . |
| 28 | A major problem for LTOM is that it derives only 30 per cent of its turnover from retail investors unlike the average of 70 per cent achieved at other pure options exchanges such as the CBOE and the EOE . |
| 29 | When we five and a half years of life of the coral from Isabella Island in the Galapagos the remarkable thing about this coral record is that it represents nearly three hundred and eighty years of continuous coral growth . |
| 30 | But for some villagers who the remember the Lambourn as it used to be , all that matters is that it flows once again . |