Example sentences of "is [pron] that [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is something that happens . ’ |
| 32 | It is something that happens because of them , " the report says . |
| 33 | But it 's erm , I mean , that is something that happens a lot , erm , it just does n't give you any motivation , it 's sort of , you put your pen down , you think well why the hell do I bother , and you go off home thinking , oh well , the end of the day . |
| 34 | ‘ The realisation of a £190m investment is something that does n't happen every day . |
| 35 | I think I mean , it 's something , a pension mortgage is something that does n't crop up every day . |
| 36 | that is something that 'd happened all of a sudden , of about four throughout the cou , well three at the time throughout the country have suddenly gone like it within about a month or so of each other , and they 've never had any trouble before , but I was talking to Brian and he said that 's a load of cobblers , he says it 's been doing it for a long time and there 's loads of them doing it . |
| 37 | And this is something that came home to me very much in Canberra . |
| 38 | ‘ That is something that come out of his reconnaissance to Goose Green . |
| 39 | Well , doubt is something that strikes drivers when they have reached , and imperceptibly slipped past , the apex of their careers . |
| 40 | And again , the Record Office is something that lay folk can just come in an look up books and ask questions if they wish to ? |
| 41 | And again , the Record Office is something that lay folk can just come in and look up books and ask questions if they wish to . |
| 42 | The anatomy is also more strongly stressed in this than in the earlier statue , perhaps to tell against reflections in the shiny metal ; and this is something that becomes even more marked in succeeding generations . |
| 43 | It is often impossible to say what moves you in a poem ; somehow in this poem there is something that touches my heart and links me in sympathy to this Bolivian poet whom I shall never meet . |
| 44 | Indeed that is something that bears closer examination because there are many people who believe that the relationship between a client and an auditor can be too close and that there ought to be a respectable distance between them . |
| 45 | It 's a sign of the times that pop-as-reinvention-of-the-self is something that resonates for fewer and fewer people in the world that is the music press readership . |
| 46 | Breakfast is something that sounds healthy such as a wholewheat cereal with no sugar added , or a thin slice of unbuttered toast with a free-range egg on top . |
| 47 | But , I think it 's insane making criminals out of a huge percentage of our population , particularly when it is something that involves morality . ’ |
| 48 | But for me and many others , old school is something that transcends fashion and has precious little to do with paying £60 in London for something that cost $5 in the backstreets of Chicago . |
| 49 | ‘ You are harbouring a criminal and that is something that takes courage . |
| 50 | ( An event in this sense is something that takes place at a single point in space , at a specified point in time . ) |
| 51 | No , not necessarily , no , an active task is something that takes your department forward , actively improves the way your department runs , which could be something like . |
| 52 | Elephants : if you actually shoot elephants in a controlled way you may in fact preserve the species , and that is something that has been done , though it is less important if everybody avoids using ivory and it is not worth killing the elephants at all . |
| 53 | That is something that has to be established . |
| 54 | It is something that has deeply influenced all social life . |
| 55 | Planting of standards and standard weepers is basically the same as far as soil preparation is concerned — the essential difference being that the plants have to be staked , and staking is something that has to be done properly . |
| 56 | This is something that has intrigued thousands of viewers . |
| 57 | A competitive attitude is something that has to be applied every single minute of the working day , arid every day of the week . |
| 58 | But , as in life when you enter a room that has balance and shape in its architecture , it is something that has a subtle and decidedly enhancing effect . |
| 59 | Timing is something that has to be felt . |
| 60 | This is something that has been advocated for disadvantaged communities across Europe but rarely gets past the rhetoric stage . |