Example sentences of "that [pron] is [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Likewise Caroline Bynum , in Holy Feast , Holy Fast , her book about medieval women religious , pours a rigorous historian 's scorn on the idea that the extreme penitential fastings of some of these women can really be diagnosed as anorexic , or as any other sort of neurosis ( as proposed for example by Rudolph Bell in Holy Anorexia ) : not merely are the case histories inadequate , but these women 's understanding of their bodies , of their relationship to Christ , of their right to participate in his sufferings , of their sense of identity , their very selves , was formed in a social environment so different from our own that nothing is to be gained by reading off their lives in this way rather than exploring in proper detail what it was they did feel and think . |
| 2 | ‘ No social services or Government department will deny that everyone is of equal value , ’ says Mencap , ‘ but the services do n't support that . |
| 3 | Avoiding long-drawn-out negotiations and yet ensuring that everyone is in the know is part of the task of governors . |
| 4 | → Ibanez made Blazers between 1980–82 at the Fuji factory in Japan and the serial number would indicate that yours is from ‘ 82 . |
| 5 | You see he 's so unlucky that his is on all play . |
| 6 | Say that someone is considering buying something which ( in early 1980 ) cost £100 . |
| 7 | You move closer , and find that someone is at the bottom of a deep pit . |
| 8 | You may want your dog to bark initially , to alert you to the fact that someone is at the door . |
| 9 | Now , although the idea that whenever we see that someone is in pain we make an inference from behaviour to feeling is about as mythical as the idea that at some time in the past we made a Social Contract , the ‘ argument from analogy ’ line of reasoning seems much less implausible here than in the ‘ Afternoon on the Sun ’ case . |
| 10 | And every time we hear it , we know that someone is in danger . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ The fact that these tapes and stories keep reappearing at regular intervals suggests that someone is behind this attempt to hurt him . |
| 12 | I keep telling Michel that nobody is in the slightest doubt that we 've run off together , but the fact seems to be that as long as there 's no actual proof , it ca n't hurt us . |
| 13 | However , he learns to his anger and dismay that she is to be married . |
| 14 | SCREEN goddess Liz Taylor is furious that she is to be portrayed by Raquel Welch , the star she dislikes more than any other , in a film . |
| 15 | This crowded historical panorama of war and the power of beauty describes the birth of Ayesha as the mortal daughter of noble Arabian parents but suggests in recounting her long training in mysticism under an Egyptian priest and her guardianship of the Fire of Immortality in the shrine at Kôr that she is to be regarded in part as a spiritual being . |
| 16 | ‘ All I can tell you at the moment is that she is on the danger list . |
| 17 | Flavia thought , She 's lost face because it has come out that she is on Christian-name terms after all with Therese . |
| 18 | Executive Director of the Tour , Joe Flanagan , says : ‘ It is not a pleasant task to tell a girl that she is off the Tour for the next four weeks , or in a few cases , a whole year . |
| 19 | The Bank of England , old nanny that she is at heart , always believes that it is good for her charges to learn patience . |
| 20 | DAME Barbara Cartland yesterday slammed claims that she is worth £40 million as ‘ pure romance … complete fiction . ’ |
| 21 | She says that she is in the bath now , sir , but that she will be with you shortly . ’ |
| 22 | Natasha , who speaks very little English , has been told by an interpreter that she is in England for a holiday and may one day return to Sarajevo . |
| 23 | That she is in good health at the moment , but health is a precarious commodity … ’ |
| 24 | ‘ The 17m prototype , FAB 3 , is undergoing the most rigorous sea trials which will continue until we can be completely satisfied that she is in every way suitable to become the first of a new generation of fast All-weather lifeboats . |
| 25 | Nor that she is in fact a captive . |
| 26 | That she is in fact on the same narrative level as Alison , but in a different tale , is a joke . |
| 27 | In the latter case the judge thought that the term " services " had been too narrowly construed in the past and that allowance should be made for the fact that a wife and mother does not work set hours and that she is in constant attendance on the home . |
| 28 | But Gunnell showed with her relay run in Portsmouth that she is in shape to beat Olympic finalist Vera Ordina . |
| 29 | ‘ Margaret Thatcher shows that she is from the Greta Garbo school of diplomacy : ‘ I want to be alone . ’ |
| 30 | In ( 36 ) the adjective former does not qualify the properties , as such , implied by the use of the word king ; the sentence does not mention any entity that has characteristics formerly typical of kings — such as regarding oneself as the owner of one 's subjects , perhaps , or believing that one is of divine lineage . |