Example sentences of "is [that] [indef pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we will say , if we keep clearly in mind that everything might have been the same up to the instant when the bar came out , and no bar might have come out is that nothing caused the bar to come out . |
| 2 | ‘ My guess — it 's no more than that — is that somebody came around earlier and told Mrs Tanner that there 'd be a couple of hundred quid in it for her if you showed up . |
| 3 | But the weird thing about this supposedly ‘ shock admission ’ is that everyone made the most dreadful fuss when she said she intended to ‘ go on and on and on ’ . |
| 4 | The first is that nobody had really analysed and spelt out the interrelated series of planning and policy decisions which changing a school curriculum entails ; the essential links between the processes of curriculum planning and implementation ; the costs of change . |
| 5 | ‘ Doc says the best bet , given the mark on her cheek is that someone slapped her one and she fell back . |
| 6 | My guess is that someone substituted bodies in order to keep him happy . ’ |
| 7 | All I can say is that someone hit me at about 40 or 50mph up the back as I was turning into the corner . |
| 8 | The value of absorbent flooring is that anything dropped , such as cooking oil ( highly dangerous underfoot ) immediately disappears instead of laying there waiting to send you sliding . |
| 9 | The Everyday Electronics official policy is that anything published more than five years ago is ‘ old ’ , which I suppose is about right . |