Example sentences of "he [vb -s] is that " in BNC.
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| 1 | What he says is that if anything goes badly , he tells the team , ‘ I did it ’ . |
| 2 | And what he says is that you can see people on a continuum . |
| 3 | What roughly he says is that he is committed to the following scientific arguments , arguments based upon scientific principles , regardless of any pain that may be caused to him or to others by so doing . |
| 4 | One of the difficulties he acknowledges is that the Irish are not given to fighting ‘ civilised ’ battles on a properly organised battle field . |
| 5 | What he states is that the dame general principles govern their development , although conditions were so different that these principles had considerably different effects in the different cases . |
| 6 | What he ignores is that the poor in eighteenth century England sometimes spoke for themselves . |
| 7 | The answer he gives is that the child freely enters the make-believe world secure in the signals from the real world that the real world is continuing to exist . |
| 8 | He tells us at the beginning of his book that he is an Aristotelean in these matters , but the price he pays is that his definition simply fails to bear upon the intuitive criteria for an explication of consciousness , such as those set out above . |
| 9 | Presumably what he means is that at that point they will have lost their representative character and become embodiments of the divine . |
| 10 | What he means is that the light is dreadful and only desperate hacks like me would take photos in it . |
| 11 | It refers not to power but to authority , and what I think he means is that although a woman can make good and wise judgements , she can not be the arbiter of that goodness or wisdom . |
| 12 | What he means is that although in one sense the competitively won money is very desirable — it gives a terrific boost to Imperial 's research and , because many of the contracts are from industry , keeps the university closely in touch with the real world — it actually contributes next of nothing to the core costs of the college , of which , of course , academic salaries are the largest single component . |
| 13 | But when a lawyer asserts that A can sue B , what he means is that A can sue B , successfully ; if he meant his words to be taken literally , they would not have been worth the uttering . |
| 14 | What he means is that the success of what are elegantly called ‘ front-end ’ authors like Archer and Clancy pulls the other , presumably ‘ rear-end ’ , authors in its wake . |
| 15 | What he means is that Nigeria is notoriously difficult to police . |
| 16 | What he forgets is that more than half of Africa 's people do not practice female genital mutilation . |
| 17 | But the most outrageous claim he makes is that Turkey ‘ is anxious to withdraw according to UN resolutions and proposals which the majority will not accept . ’ |
| 18 | Another criticism he makes is that it has an uneasy relationship with such values as justice which some people should consider to be important in human life . |
| 19 | ‘ All he knows is that her name is Erica . |
| 20 | ‘ He says that all he knows is that the men came this morning and took away the guns , ’ said Nikos , Owen 's Official Clerk and Office Manager . |