Example sentences of "[noun] [is] that [pers pn] [verb] n't " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | My biggest comment on football is that I do n't like Sunderland … or Gazza ( Gascoigne ) . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Another plus-point of Ark is that you do n't have to duplicate formulae on each row of data . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | But Sir David said yesterday : ‘ We 've always had doubts about this policy , and the thing that now confirms our doubts is that it has n't worked . ’ |
| 8 | Her first crime is that she has n't clocked into an office for 16 years . |
| 9 | I mean that that 's another alternative is that we do n't bother with pictures . |
| 10 | The problem with these street preachers is that you do n't get the choice not to hear them . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | My only regret is that he did n't turn up at court to watch his Pyrrhic victory . |
| 13 | Sir Stanley 's only regret is that he did n't play for a few years more . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ The answer to your question is that I do n't know . |
| 18 | ‘ The trouble with the test is that you do n't have to be competent to drive . |
| 19 | The likelihood is that it does n't . |
| 20 | The only reason that I 'm enjoying Neighbours again at the moment is that I have n't seen it for month and I 'm trying to work out which characters have changed , which characters are getting married to which other ones . |
| 21 | The difference is that we did n't know then what we know now , we did n't know what would become of us ’ ; or ‘ We were so young and spilling over with everything inside ’ . |
| 22 | The difference is that we do n't recognize and celebrate this story — and the Japanese do . |
| 23 | Given that he does n't want to see you and your suspicion is that he does n't want to see you because you have as it were the fingerprints of Gerry Adams on you now you 're tainted because of your relationship with Gerry Adams , what do you now do ? |
| 24 | If the Department of the Environment think that there are issues of more than local importance they will call it in but their preliminary view expressed to the local MP Mr is that they do n't believe that 's the case . |
| 25 | One of the clever and pleasing touches about this process is that you do n't have to tell the program which lead you 're using . |
| 26 | I think they ought to much more than they do , but the plain truth is that they do n't . |
| 27 | For some people , the joy of being a tourist is that they do n't have to think , everything is done for them . |
| 28 | But we did n't have to , what I mean the point is that we did n't have to tell , have to tell them , they already knew . |
| 29 | ‘ Yes , yes , man , but the point is that I did n't leave it , and now these confounded women have taken possession of the cottage . |
| 30 | But the point is that I do n't see myself as a playwright in the same way I would see myself as a prose writer . |