Example sentences of "[noun] [is] [that] [pron] do [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem with such lists is that they do not specify any order . |
| 2 | Jones finished off by saying : ‘ The good thing about English football is that they do n't roll about the pitch if they are not hurt . |
| 3 | My biggest comment on football is that I do n't like Sunderland … or Gazza ( Gascoigne ) . |
| 4 | ‘ The irony is that I did n't realise till Christmas , when I knew I loved you , that it was someone like you I should have been looking for all these years since . ’ |
| 5 | The only real problem with QBasic is that it does n't come with any sort of printed documentation — this is where we can help . |
| 6 | Another plus-point of Ark is that you do n't have to duplicate formulae on each row of data . |
| 7 | Part of the problem with encouraging girls to take ‘ useful ’ subjects is that we do not know whether it makes any difference to the kinds of jobs they eventually do ; and whether , indeed , these jobs would still be highly rated if women did them . |
| 8 | The tragedy is that he did n't need any ; he had more than enough kudos of his own from his motor racing , ’ she said sadly , ‘ but that 's the way he thought . ’ |
| 9 | But the trouble with climate modification of the sort imposed by the greenhouse effect is that it does not move naturally to a new , warmer status quo which will remain undisturbed for the next thousand years or so . |
| 10 | A characteristic feature of the placebo effect is that it does not last all that long : it is usually only a matter of weeks , and two to six months is about the most that can be expected : If a patient responds to a new treatment and is still well after a year , it is unlikely to be a placebo effect . |
| 11 | I mean that that 's another alternative is that we do n't bother with pictures . |
| 12 | The advantage of Wysiwyg is that you do not have to keep switching from one to the other . |
| 13 | The problem with these street preachers is that you do n't get the choice not to hear them . ’ |
| 14 | The only defence usually available to a valuer is that he did not act as an expert , but as an arbitrator in the full sense , and not as a " quasi-arbitrator " , considered in 14.6 . |
| 15 | The second major defect in the relative clause proposal is that it does not actually explain anything unless it is supplemented by some account of what a relative clause is . |
| 16 | One of the unwritten rules of non-Muslims who work or travel in Muslim countries is that you do n't eat or drink in front of your fasting friends . |
| 17 | Neville Baggaley 's only regret is that he did not make the change sooner . |
| 18 | My only regret is that he did n't turn up at court to watch his Pyrrhic victory . |
| 19 | Sir Stanley 's only regret is that he did n't play for a few years more . |
| 20 | And the failure of IBM management is that it did n't understand — and still does n't understand — the extent of the mischief the genie of open systems it let out of the bottle with the original open IBM Personal Computer , could wreak . |
| 21 | Er what he did n't do which is which is very sensible and what has failed for other companies is that he did n't decide this is a good idea I 'll have somebody in Newcastle and somebody in Edinburgh and I 'll have somebody , in other words he gradually built the whole of the business out until he reached London by which time he he 'd a hell of exp er a lot of experience and knowledge about this thing 's going . |
| 22 | The pity is that we do not sufficiently encourage them to conduct those explorations . |
| 23 | The outstanding feature of black parents ' relationship with their children 's sport is that it does not exist . |
| 24 | The main outstanding issue is that we do n't know how colour-coding receptive fields are constructed out of wavelength-coding receptive fields at other stages in the system . |
| 25 | Of course , in such cases , rulers tend to have different life-styles from their subjects , but what is at issue is that they do not have a privileged access to property , especially to the means of production , an essential element of Marx 's and Engels 's definition of a class . |
| 26 | The view of the County Council is that it does not raise those issues . |
| 27 | The short answer to this question is that we do not know how homoeopathic remedies work any more than we know how the majority of orthodox pharmaceuticals work . |
| 28 | ‘ The answer to your question is that I do n't know . |
| 29 | The good thing about a spreadsheet is that you do not need to worry about the order in which you list items — you can sort on any field later . |
| 30 | ‘ The trouble with the test is that you do n't have to be competent to drive . |