Example sentences of "[prep] is [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | One thing I can be certain of is that we have all been involved in rows , misunderstandings and quarrels . |
| 3 | The only thing you can be sure of is that US interest will always come first . |
| 4 | ‘ The only thing I can think of is that there is a convent near where I live , and they take a few elderly people . ’ |
| 5 | What we can be sure of is that Tangshan rates as no more than third in the cataclysmic league . |
| 6 | What they lose sight of is that the only possible justification of the expense of supporting these vast bureaucratic machines is to ensure that the necessary high standard of safety is established and maintained . |
| 7 | The first thing that that litany reminds us of is that when it came to success , in the immortal words of Mae West ( put into her mouth by scriptwriter Vincent Lawrence ) , goodness had nothing to do with it . |
| 8 | Olson , for instance , does admit at one point that all we can really be sure of is that some academics have made claims for objectivity while the question of assessing those claims is a different matter : |
| 9 | What I am most conscious of is that I have been regarded as a controversial figure : until the age of sixty I was seen either as a subversive or as an enfant terrible . |
| 10 | We 're Vice Presidents of Somerset Cricket Club , and the one thing that John is most proud of is that he once slow-bowled Dennis Compton during a match against the MCC . ’ |
| 11 | There are not many guarantees I can make in this game , but one thing I can assure you of is that you now have 1,000 shares in. |
| 12 | But I think one of the things that men are afraid of is that when women get into the things the attitudes change , as we were saying about bigotry and religion and so on with football , I do n't think that men want that because this is the perfect club they can enjoy and indulge all that , but if women really get into it the thing will change as society does . |
| 13 | One of the greatest things that I have become aware of is that if you have eight people to dinner , one or two of them will be vegetarians . |
| 14 | All I am sure of is that in the face of that child , as he lay dead upon the couch , I saw something of my own future . |
| 15 | The closest analogy I can think of is that it is very much like fishing , you never know what you are going to catch , you have to pull in the small ones when you are hoping for the big one , but occasionally a big one comes along when you least expect it . |
| 16 | The present evidence therefore suggests that the universe will probably expand forever , but all we can really be sure of is that even if the universe is going to recollapse , it wo n't do so for at least another ten thousand million years , since it has already been expanding for at least that long . |
| 17 | The only thing you have to be careful of is that the hardcard is thin enough not to obscure too many of the very few slots that the 2000 series has . |
| 18 | One you are all aware of is that we will be nationally approved to BS5750 standard . |
| 19 | One thing I am sure of is that would agree that the job of Treasurer of the Bar Council would be quite impossible without the daily support and guidance of the Chief Executive and of his Finance Officer , , and his deputy , . |
| 20 | What we can , however , be reasonably certain of is that they will have at least some common experiences of television dramas ; these can themselves provide us with useful starting points . |
| 21 | The first thing we must er be sure of is that the coefficients within the sample are reasonably , er reasonably constant , right . |
| 22 | ‘ I know now to expect the unexpected , but the one thing I can be sure of is that we all have lots of laughs making the show . ’ |
| 23 | Remember that the significance of is that it indicates the power in the load for a fixed amplitude of input signal . |
| 24 | and the biggest pro for a fax that I can think of is that you can send the message and that 's that , there 's no risk of it dribbling on into , into doubt |
| 25 | Erm oh well I 'll er the other thing I was thinking of is that er we could be looking er towards beginning , you know even now , to doing a trips network and things like that . |
| 26 | Er , we did it erm , er just after 1919 when er , er we started backing the white Russians and erm , before we write off erm everything the Communist er Government of er Russia has done over the last seventy years as being evil , what I think we 've got to be aware of is that we may once more be unleashing the forces of nationalism , which in 1914 , and I think of going up er in the period in the thirties very much lead to erm two world wars , and er I 'd like to know more about er some of the forces the so called democratic forces that are backing erm Mr Yeltsin . |
| 27 | Another characteristic of the inward investors that two authorities and ourselves have had experience of is that it 's likely that the user or users will want to have reasonably clean air , good water and the ability to work twenty four hours . |
| 28 | I think that the computer presents exactly that challenge and amongst the sorts of things I 'm thinking of is that erm it 's one thing to play with a computer toy , a game of some sort — we 've all seen them in the bar and elsewhere — it 's another thing entirely to devise your own game , to program your own rules in and then to bring your friend along and have them challenge it . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Clearly Helen has looked for ‘ explanations ’ to help her deal with such a painful experience , and the one she seems to have come up with is that she was picked on for the way she looks . |