Example sentences of "[is] [that] there " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is that there is an obligation to go to Catholic school … |
| 2 | What Kafka discovers is that there is no direct relation between what I feel and what happens to me . |
| 3 | The point about the big glass , he wrote , is that there is no right way up and so there is no upside down . |
| 4 | The first is that there is no need to follow slavishly the whole procedure for each offence . |
| 5 | The only interesting claim that the constructivist can make here , the objection runs , is that there is a prospect of translating all representational language into action language — with a host of adverbs , perhaps ? |
| 6 | What I now want to suggest is that there is a lot of very successful science currently being conducted which literally depends on functionalism being true . |
| 7 | A third reason for the accelerating rate of advance in neuroscience is that there are simply larger numbers of better funded people engaged in research in this field today than ever before . |
| 8 | I make no excuse for quoting at some length from the Chatrier newsletter ‘ I have always said that the biggest problem we face in tennis is that there is too much money around . |
| 9 | The reason for this is that there are now two ways of getting your council 's blessing to proceed with the work you have in mind . |
| 10 | ‘ I wo n't allow myself to be tortured , ’ Raskolnikov tells Porfiry , but our sense of their three long encounters is that there 's nothing either of them can do about it . |
| 11 | The second thing is that there are an awful lot of them . |
| 12 | He believes that literary study has a cultural and humane rather than an intellectual value ; and the implication of his recent work is that there are other ways of attaining cultural value . |
| 13 | The first reason the Chancellor gives is that there is some ‘ bad ’ froth on the ‘ good ’ deficit : that is to say , evidence of excessive domestic demand . |
| 14 | ‘ The problem with children 's books increasingly is that there are armies of people who are properly concerned with , for example , the way girls were always discriminated against in the past , ’ says Allan . |
| 15 | But the important thing is that there is nothing at Felbrigg or Nostell — or elsewhere in National Trust houses — which closely resembles the saloon ( or the drawing room ) at Uppark : these rooms were unique and we need them back . |
| 16 | The key phrase used by Mr Meacher is that there should be a ‘ genuine interest ’ involved before industrial action was within the law . |
| 17 | One sub-explanation is that there were not enough cameras and technicians to go round ; though , as I say , the Gloucester v Bath match was recorded . |
| 18 | One problem is that there do not seem to be many potentially blue-chip names in the pipeline , ready to join what is now a severely restricted group . |
| 19 | The first is that there are no Alps like the Swiss Alps . |
| 20 | One suggestion put forward is that there should be a programme of starter homes , perhaps provided through housing associations . |
| 21 | The root of the problem is that there is no Non-Conformist equivalent of the church commissioners who , as well as contributing in large measure to Church of England clergy stipends , share with the state the responsibility for providing the Redundant Churches Fund . |
| 22 | Replying directly to a businesswoman 's plea during the debate for ‘ one more little miracle ’ to ease the impact of the new rate on firms , Mr Lawson said to muted applause : ‘ The answer is that there is no alternative , and the policy will work . ’ |
| 23 | Mr Lawson said : ‘ The plain truth is that there are no easy answers . |
| 24 | The general conclusion which we have reached is that there is no clear evidence in any of the figures we have examined that the abolition of capital punishment has led to an increase in the homicide rate , or that its reintroduction has led to a fall . |
| 25 | It is that there is no community to appeal to ; for the phenomenon itself is the evidence that there is more than one community , or a divided community . |
| 26 | The trouble with this attitude is that there are just too many bands around for that to happen . |
| 27 | The risk is that there can be a collective NO from everyone . |
| 28 | Further , they feared that ‘ doing ’ what a woman does ( on the stage and in women 's clothes ) leads to ‘ being ’ what a woman is ; the most unmanageable anxiety is that there is no essentially masculine self ( p. 1 36 ) , and cross-dressing in women 's clothes can lead to a man ‘ turning into ’ a woman . |
| 29 | What makes the situation especially difficult in the case of homosexuality is that there are those who arm their homophobia by ignoring the first dimension described above — an exile which generates critique — insisting only on the second — the exile who flees one kind of discrimination only to reproduce others , and who is seen to do so in virtue of the alleged ‘ predatory ’ nature of the homosexual desire , now quintessentially defined as a desire to exploit the disadvantaged . |
| 30 | A necessary condition of this is that there has been sufficient money to enable it to function ( barely true for instance in Zaire , and parts of Nigeria and Tanzania in the 1980s ) , and that civil strife has been contained , sometimes ruthlessly . |