Example sentences of "that [pron] [is] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lumpy smoothness of all its surfaces reinforces the sense that Plenty is something organic , something that was generated , not constructed . |
| 2 | But , but I had more to do with her than Evelyn but er from what little bits I 've gleaned , you know , er I 'm a bit into everything like , and I seem to think , I 've got a f strange feeling that she 's something to do with education and they 're worried about children not speaking properly eventu |
| 3 | ‘ All I shall tell you is that she 's somebody Mother knows . ’ |
| 4 | What this means is that the taking of leisure is self-defeating ; the fact that one is one 's own boss adds to , rather than subtracts from , the psychological pressures to do housework . |
| 5 | And that something is nothing more than their inward consciousness , heavily hemmed in by their subtle and instinctive mental processes . |
| 6 | The one point on which Mr Golyadkin and Double were agreed was that there is nobody like God , but it follows pat and false that if a man has nowhere to go God will look after him . |
| 7 | Er it 's something that we 're trained in to ensure that there is nobody hiding behind the door . |
| 8 | Most drama training works on the assumption that there is something called ‘ standard English ’ , which is generally considered to be the ‘ straight ’ delivery of words without affectation or regional variation . |
| 9 | One can also add that there is something in the present policies of the SDLP which suggest a need to maintain a somewhat fragile unity in respect of the national question . |
| 10 | However , it seems to me that there is something a little perverse in leaving me your notes on the making of the Big Glass when you must have known perfectly well that they contained material I would be certain to find offensive . |
| 11 | That there is something he does not know is shown by the fact that if he were to gain his sight , he would come to know something that he previously had not known . |
| 12 | At first sight this looks like an uninteresting stipulation about how to use the word ‘ fact ’ — uninteresting because the anti-materialist could as well state his case using some such term as ‘ feature ’ or ‘ aspect ’ , and it is difficult to see how , once having allowed that there is something called ‘ what it is like to see ’ which one only learns by seeing , one could refuse to describe this as a feature or aspect of mental life . |
| 13 | So we started by asking our friends , who in turn asked others , until we were eventually inundated with testimonies from witnesses around the world who provided popular proof that there is something about the cinema that encourages , right there in the picture house , thoughts , feelings and behaviour in its patrons by turns enigmatic , terrifying , erotic , sad , hilarious and poetic , often triggered by uncanny interplay between screen image and real-time events in the auditorium and in the world beyond the muffled doors . |
| 14 | The idea that there is something of a lag between terminology and social system is interesting and there does indeed sometimes seem to be this type of gap . |
| 15 | Throughout Marx 's work he stresses , as he had done for labour , the fantastic nature of the capitalist concept of property , the fantastic notion that there is something of our personality in the things or places we own . |
| 16 | All these examples suggest that there is something else , over and above a response of the body to our life-style and environment . |
| 17 | Now we would humbly suggest that there is something slightly wrong here . |
| 18 | News footage showing an angry crowd mobbing badger baiters as they entered a courtroom for trial suggests that there is something especially odious about using dogs to tear badgers apart . |
| 19 | Obviously different social groups have a varying ability to articulate these concerns , but there is a widely shared general notion that there is something valuable — ‘ the British way of life ’ — which would be undermined by translation into an overwhelmingly Catholic country . |
| 20 | Politicians , planners and architects — who teamed up to create many an urban disaster area — are now united in the view that there is something seriously wrong with British cities . |
| 21 | Let us remember that there is something of God in everyone — even people we find it difficult to like . |
| 22 | May we try to show them by our own example that there is something good in everyone . |
| 23 | The sight of judges and magistrates going on strike and scuffling with police outside the Palace of Justice and the recent murder of a policewoman in a riot ( June 1991 ) , as well as the regular disruption of life by numerous strikes , especially in public services , indicate that there is something seriously wrong . |
| 24 | However , whilst I remain suspicious of Hick 's cosy position , it may be possible to accept that there is something approaching a common theistic structure among a number of the world 's religious traditions . |
| 25 | We need to convince both the parent and the child that there is something attractive to offer . |
| 26 | Surely any fool should be able to see that there is something wrong with a child like that . |
| 27 | That kind of mystical knowledge that there is something incredibly black around the corner . |
| 28 | It is impossible to believe in the journey of the spirit without believing that there is something else after this life . |
| 29 | If you believe that there is something more after this life and that the spirit of the person who has died is continuing its journey in that place , then , because that is as it should be , there is no point in crying for that spirit . |
| 30 | If it is not discovered , however , it is highly likely that there is something wrong with the assumptions ; the data can certainly dampen over-enthusiastic imagination . |