Example sentences of "[adj] [is] that [pers pn] [verb] n't " in BNC.

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1 The main reason for this is that they do n't know how to and probably neither do a lot of their English solicitors .
2 What 's bad about this is that they do n't take drugs — they 've never touched them — but they want to sell them .
3 The most amusing part of all this is that I do n't have a lover . ’
4 My concern about this is that I do n't see how a view can be taken at a strategic level on something which ultimately can be only ascertained on a site specific basis .
5 The effect of this is that you do n't have to bother calculating anything — if you use 1in thick material , 7½in diameter .
6 What 's good about this is that it does n't take too much time .
7 One thing that went seriously wrong is that we did n't hear more of Neil Kinnock speaking as he did amid the wreckage of his political hopes and personal career .
8 Another is that they do n't shove the gear up on their dining-room walls ; you ca n't have a cop or two show up at some billionaire 's apartment in Sutton Place and demand to go through the strongroom .
9 I suppose the reason I got down to an effort to be objective is that I did n't like the interpretations of my other things — so here I am with an array of alligator pears — about ten of them — calla lilies — four or six — leaves — summer green ones — ranging through yellow to the dark sombre blackish purplish red — eight or ten — horrid yellow sunflowers — two new red cannas — some white birches with yellow leaves — only two that I have no name for and I do n't know where they come from .
10 The other thing that is important is that I do n't think you can get anything on the cheap .
11 ‘ You have disturbed a burial site all right but what is important is that you do n't disturb it further , ’ he advised .
12 I thought there were two answers to that , madam , through the Chair , er , the first is that we do n't actually spend any money directly ourselves , as a County Council in America , we contribute towards the Regional Development Organization , the W M D A , and our contribution is about twenty thousands pounds per year .
13 the same is that you do n't match your airport passenger to your airport demand .
14 The short answer to that is that we do n't know .
15 My answer to that is that I do n't feel that my job is to do PR .
16 That is that I do n't mind .
17 The elder was contemptuous when the younger replied to his crushing arguments by the reply , the reason why you think like that is that you do n't say your prayers .
18 No that 's that you do n't
19 What 's certain is that he does n't understand her .
20 ‘ I want to send out a very strong message today , ’ he had said , ‘ one thing I learned when I was young is that you do n't give in to the village bully .
21 But seems to me that 's silly is that we did n't keep with that correspondence a copy of the enquiry form , which , the original is gone to the central record .
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