Example sentences of "[pron] is [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 31 | The first is traditionalism , by which is meant that Conservatives have an attachment to established customs and institutions , and , as a corollary , a hostility to ‘ sudden , precipitate and revolutionary change ’ . |
| 32 | By which is meant that they have developed their ability to focus both senses and mind upon a thought process . |
| 33 | Used alone they exhibit a specific characteristic known as inverse solubility by which is meant that as temperature increases they drop out of solution contrary to expected behaviour . |
| 34 | Before grapes are allowed the full AOC status of Champagne , the vines from which they come , whether situated in a virgin vineyard or an old one just replanted , must attain their ‘ third leaf ’ , by which is meant that the plants , having produced foliage for the third time , will be three years old . |
| 35 | The second area is that of public relations , by which is meant that good public relations exercises , as opposed to advertising , on the part of both individual lawyers and the professional bodies themselves should be encouraged . |
| 36 | ‘ Drivers want to be able to put the same smart card in a holder ( or a different card in the same holder ) whether driving in the Netherlands or on a French autoroute , ’ says Ian Catling , a member of an EC group which is ensuring that electronic Babel is avoided on the roads . |
| 37 | Although clay crystals theoretically could store the same prodigious quantities of information as DNA or laser discs can , nobody is suggesting that they ever did . |
| 38 | Nobody is pretending that we are having a great time , but it is important to recognise the factors which have affected us in what is a transitional period for the club . |
| 39 | And nobody no no nobody nobody is saying that you were tr |
| 40 | Answer : nobody is denying that thoughts have qualitative content . |
| 41 | Nobody is denying that Mr Steward has attempted to landscape and improve aspects of his farm . |
| 42 | Nobody is claiming that the Brooklands offers the last word in performance , fuel economy , space efficiency , silence or ergonomic excellence . |
| 43 | The European programme is , like the US Government Open Systems Interconnection Profile ( GOSIP ) effort , mandatory , and its is expected that most government buyers will follow the guidelines because they will have to give and explain reasons for non-standard purchases . |
| 44 | Now she is wishing that I was back at work . ’ |
| 45 | Traditionally , her top class has spent a residential week at Paignton Zoo and she is determined that , given the restriction on charging for activities within school hours , the tradition will be maintained ad infinitum . |
| 46 | Nicola from Chartbury in Oxfordshire is very worried about her younger son , and she is hoping that some of you may be able to help . |
| 47 | Now she is hoping that her open luck will change , though it looks as though Smashiton will have too much to do in tonight 's £100 450 metres open at Sunderland . |
| 48 | A mother insists on her small son 's going to bed at a certain time , in spite of all his protests , because she knows he needs enough sleep to keep healthy and alert ; but in his view , she is insisting that he gives up his happy play , cutting him off from the rest of the family , for no good reason . |
| 49 | She is insisting that Gerry finds them a ‘ love nest ’ a safe distance from his wife . |
| 50 | She is inferring that when mortals feel secure , and sound in their knowledge of others , then that is the time for them to be unsure of most , because if anything is going to happen , it will happen then . |
| 51 | Need it be a matter of wonder , when we see her capable of such restraint in general , that she should retire within herself and exercise that control we find her continually exerting over all her thoughts and actions the more energetically at a time when she is taught that a stray thought of desire would be impurity and its fruition pollution . |
| 52 | Helping an elderly woman to adjust and to find a new identity is never easy , but it can nearly always be achieved if she is shown that she is still loved and needed , by her family and friends . |
| 53 | She is saying that this good thing , this knowledge , can be used — to tell us , for example , that Amis is not a Tudor writer : but she is rather more moved to say at the same time that it ca n't or can hardly be used , devoted as she is to the thought of a separation between , in this case , Amis 's friendships and politics , his life — and his art . |
| 54 | In the language of contemporary sociology , she is saying that juvenile delinquency is a subculture … |
| 55 | He said : ‘ What is the housewife going to do when she is told that the price of her electricity has now reached 10 pence per unit . |
| 56 | She is told that if she catches sight of him when he visits her in the darkness , he will leave her . |
| 57 | They are now to be taken under the jurisdiction of the Queen , who is determined that they will be protected from the emotional mayhem currently being created by their parents . |
| 58 | And who is to say that the topography of the Somerset village of East Coker is unimportant to a reading of Eliot 's four Quartets ? |
| 59 | Who is to say that Yeats and Pound were wrong ? |
| 60 | Who is to say that the poorer countries of Europe are to be happy with a dominant Germany just because it is said to be good for ‘ Europe ’ ? |