Example sentences of "[adv] is that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , one reason why Mr Hammer 's message has been received so eagerly is that , to a large extent , he is preaching to the converted . |
| 2 | In fact one thing he says er which might make you doubt his motives somewhat is that the reason for giving people more than one vote is that they 're more educated , but in general there is also a rough correlation between property ownership and education and so there 's a good reason to give the property owners more than one vote , people who own a lot of property more than one vote . |
| 3 | One reason they have not done better is that the largest and most inefficient Italian banks remain in the hands of the government , which has done its best to protect them . |
| 4 | A seventeenth-century libertine who wrote excellent satirical verse ( he 's the author of the famous epigram about Charles II : ‘ God bless our good and gracious king/Whose promise none relies on ; /Who never said a foolish thing , /Nor ever did a wise one ’ — one of the reasons I like him so much is that allegedly he recited it extempore to the king ) and some great , great poems about sex . |
| 5 | The problem that is now faced apparently is that there is not a sufficient number of paediatric specialists available to give clinical care . |
| 6 | You mentioned erm tumours , in fact you get this as I said the same picture with , with X-rays as you get with magnetic resonance imaging , but what is different about tumours apparently is that the erm relaxation time with which the erm nuclei move erm varies erm according to whether a cell is , is cancerous or not . |
| 7 | One advantage of the fly and inner going up together is that the inner is kept at a set distance from the fly , preventing the two from touching and allowing moisture to leak through to the inside . |
| 8 | And the net result of all of these things together is that it narrowed the cost value differentials between U K and overseas holidays . |
| 9 | Erm the main difference between a non-executive director and a director basically is that the directors are added to by the shareholders and are re-elected at the annual general meetings . |
| 10 | That 's what I 'm saying , right , now , what I 'm saying is there 's a , that , that , is , there 's , there 's , there 's , there 's things , there 's things , there 's guides to be able to do that , right , and the guide is there 's certain things you do and certain things you do n't do , because what you do basically is that you close him on his final objection which is what you 're just saying you did , right , but you close him on his final objection , how did you manage to close him on his final objection ? |
| 11 | The situation basically is that I am confident I can come to accommodation with Norfolk from my way of thinking as the neighbouring Highway Authority , those the people we 've got to er to make certain are on site , I 'm sure , I 'm confident enough to do that . |
| 12 | The trouble with reaching all day long is that there are no aims to your sailing . |
| 13 | How long is that longer term is still a matter for debate . |
| 14 | ‘ The reason people have been concerned about this case for so long is that it is about far bigger issues . |
| 15 | The difficulty many pupils experience with the scale illustrated below is that each division represents 0.2 of a centimetre and not 0.1 . |
| 16 | A better answer perhaps is that in some inherited way they carry the ‘ tune ’ of an ancient grief , lulled by earthly beauty but capable of being woken in Frodo in the end , as in Legolas by the cry of the gulls . |
| 17 | We also showed that grade two do significantly better than grade three , but most importantly perhaps is that we showed that patients with a vascular count that are less than twenty one do significantly better than patients with a vascular count of greater or equal to twenty one . |
| 18 | Most noticeable perhaps is that the dead minister of the newspaper account is removed completely , thereby channelling attention towards the sick minister in the vignette . |
| 19 | Experienced salespeople know that the impression given to buyers by the salesperson who interrupts the buyer in midstream is that the salesperson believes that : |
| 20 | Stated generally , the fundamental rationale he offers for having to do so is that he , either himself or as the agent of society , knew better than the patient what should be done to or for the patient . |
| 21 | What seems to have happened over the last twenty years or so is that a higher proportion of juveniles are being dealt with officially by the police rather than being dealt with unofficially or warned . |
| 22 | The ICRF is such a worthy cause and what makes it particularly so is that it uses just 8p out of every £1 for administration , meaning 92p really goes on advancing the research , ’ she said . |
| 23 | The main reason why this is so is that ‘ our English [ sic ] executive is , as a general rule , becoming more and more the representative of a party rather than the guide of the country ’ . |
| 24 | The stated reason for doing so is that an increasing number of cardholders are paying their bill at the end of each month , pay nothing for the card , and are therefore being subsidised by those who do use the credit facility . |
| 25 | The implicit assumption as to why this should be so is that questions of law are for the ordinary courts . |
| 26 | ‘ So is that why you 're moving into town ? ’ |
| 27 | One reason why that will be so is that we have a coherent approach to Europe , not one that changes every weekend . |
| 28 | The major disadvantage of doing so is that the data formats required by the two packages are very different . |
| 29 | Just as the line between semantics and pragmatics is fuzzy , so is that between the indexical and symbolic meanings of deictic terms . |
| 30 | His motive for doing so is that he thinks that English verse has been ill-served by prosodists in the past . |