Example sentences of "is that " in BNC.
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| 31 | One thing you can be sure of is that the panel will know the words of these characters very well ( they will probably be able to prompt you at any given moment should you ‘ dry ’ ) but each and every time the lines are spoken by a new voice they are different in their texture , humour , drama and music . |
| 32 | The first piece of advice that 's necessary is that you should n't just try to be fashionable by choosing juicy speeches that catch your eye without knowing the whole play and having a working idea of how to perform the speech . |
| 33 | But the thing is that now , I mean now that most of them have got some sort of house , an' there 's food an' money around , they know they 're better off but , honest , they know they 've got nothin' as well . |
| 34 | An' like the worst thing is that y' know the people who are like supposed to represent the people on our estate , y' know the Daily Mirror an' The Sun , an ITV an' the Unions , what are they tellin' people to do ? |
| 35 | Quite clearly the most important thing about final presentations is that the play suits the talent available in the group . |
| 36 | However , one thing worth mentioning at this point is that the larger parts are not always a guarantee of an agent 's interest — quite often big roles will attract attention , but a student who has been very well cast in a smaller role may hit the mark just as effectively . |
| 37 | The main thing is that it needs to look like you ! |
| 38 | What does stand out is that everyone believes that the profession , its standards and its aims , matter , and they all feel an excitement about the job of acting . |
| 39 | A R. What you are saying is that everyone seems to miss the work of Litz Pisk [ a legendary movement teacher at Central School ] who had such movement sense . |
| 40 | The outcome of the dominance of both is that historically there have been critical mediations between religion and politics for catholic nationalists . |
| 41 | The distinctive feature of the beliefs is that they assert or imply the honour or prestige due to the group over and against another or other groups , and consequently motivate the group to achieve such honour on the field of social conflict . |
| 42 | Another aspect of this form of cultural nationalism is that it was been strongly supported in the Irish national school system and Northern catholic school system by the clergy and religious orders . |
| 43 | But the political significance of this culture is that where opinion counts and where the catholic — nationalist remnant actually experiences the coercive power of protestant loyalists and the British army in the Northern statelet , there violence has all the more support . |
| 44 | Part of the overall argument of this book is that , as the Roman catholic church is principal validator or legitimator of the Southern state along with the concept of the national entity , what that state goes on to do in the field of social ethics can not be separated out from the responsibilities of the church . |
| 45 | It is that there is an obligation to go to Catholic school … |
| 46 | But the central and substantive argument that defenders of Roman catholic schools have had to deal with is that the dual school system in Northern Ireland encourages , supports , or at least reinforces the sectarian divide , and that it forms part of the vicious circle maintaining conflict in Ulster . |
| 47 | The fact is that the project itself will call into question the notion of success and failure , my theme in the big glass , he wrote , is , after all , the calling into question of such terms as success and failure , the calling into question of such notions as project and even work . |
| 48 | If the glass has any virtue at all , he wrote , it is that it refuses to pretend . |
| 49 | The difficulty is that it does not , one does not — not in one 's art , not in one 's life . |
| 50 | What Kafka discovers is that there is no direct relation between what I feel and what happens to me . |
| 51 | The point about the big glass , he wrote , is that there is no right way up and so there is no upside down . |
| 52 | And yet , he wrote , the wonder is that this nothing holds the elements together . |
| 53 | The truth of the matter , he wrote , is that no one wants to be rescued . |
| 54 | The difference is that I knew what I wanted and he did not . |
| 55 | If top panel is without perspective and bottom is nothing but perspective , then is that not the place for a different kind of vision ? |
| 56 | ( Yet beauty of glass is that the story it tells is that the parts can not cohere , can not form a whole , even though they would like to . ) |
| 57 | ( Yet beauty of glass is that the story it tells is that the parts can not cohere , can not form a whole , even though they would like to . ) |
| 58 | The thing about my life , he wrote , is that everything has always been too late . |
| 59 | One problem with this cosy consensus , and its greatest irony , is that as a nation we take our pubs too much for granted . |
| 60 | One very obvious but important observation is that a pub is first and foremost an interior . |