Example sentences of "is [that] i " in BNC.

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1 Well what you 're saying is that me and ought to talk to her
2 All I can tell you with certainty is that I , for one , have no self , and that I am unwilling or unable to perpetrate upon myself the joke of a self .
3 The difference is that I knew what I wanted and he did not .
4 My intention is that I should leave at the end of the year .
5 The trouble is that I am not a tea-drinker , and so my plants get only the occasional treat when guests visit .
6 The trouble is that I ca n't identify it and ca n't find it in my gardening books or in any of the books at my local library .
7 What 's happening is that I have a reason for rising , for living , for laughing .
8 my pain is that I knew you
9 My biggest comment on football is that I do n't like Sunderland … or Gazza ( Gascoigne ) .
10 ‘ If anything can be concluded from this book , it is that I was born , ’ writes Sisson after touching on that event , which occurred 75 years ago in a building since occupied by the Bristol Rovers Supporters Club .
11 ‘ My difficulty is that I have n't spent 40 years as an umpire or whatever , and there is a tension between people like that and those like me .
12 Commenting on the letter to Tolba , Mr Lapointe , who has previously insisted that his actions and those of his staff are entirely correct , would only say yesterday : ‘ My comment is that I am fed up with all the garbage . ’
13 If you are asking me where the remedy lies , my answer is that I have told you before and I shall go on telling you , and you know perfectly well what it is , though everybody thinks that it is too difficult and that therefore there must be a different remedy .
14 One of the things I worry about considerably is that I feel a lot of well-meaning people bring pressure to bear on companies not to take decisions .
15 The other thing that is important is that I do n't think you can get anything on the cheap .
16 The physical and mental experience had made us healthier people and proof of the excitement and joy of the trip is that I have now become one of the greatest bores on mountain biking in the Swedish Arctic .
17 Further , it makes me angry with myself to find that the perfectly natural and utterly unfair result is that I begin to dislike Paxford , no exercise of the will convincing me that it is not the unfortunate P. who is boring me with his views on everything under the sun .
18 The upshot of this is that I 've now become a resident , which makes a weekly tour of junk and antique shops even more vital .
19 But my personal philosophy is that I am not incredibly optimistic , but I am a realistic utopian or a utopian realist . ’
20 ‘ The main benefit is that I 've enjoyed it ; that 's my yardstick . ’
21 ‘ The main benefit is that I 've enjoyed it ; that 's my yardstick . ’
22 The fact is that I had never seen it , or known what I was seeing , until that day : …
23 Mother and lots of other people would say we were too young to love truly , they would have us wait for our ‘ years of discretion ’ ; at what age one is supposed to be abnormally discreet I do not know , all I know is that I have not arrived there yet , and I hope I never will .
24 The wonder is that I write
25 The wonder is that I write
26 But the best reason , and the one I am sure about , is that I 'll kill you if you do n't . ’
27 The main thing is that I can do it through official channels .
28 ‘ The end result is that I 've large arrears on the centre 's mortgage , and now the building society is threatening repossession in the new year , unless we can clear the arrears .
29 ‘ The thing I remember about my first visit is that I had never sung so much before .
30 The plain truth is that I once twisted my knee after falling down a ridiculously narrow flight of stairs at a crowded party in a terraced house in Highgate , and I found it so comforting and indeed so peculiarly elegant to lean on a good stout walking stick during the weeks that followed this mishap that I continued to do so long after my leg had returned to normal .
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