Example sentences of "[pron] is [verb] that the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Which is to say that the idea of being married to him offends you ? ’ |
| 2 | Further ( 7 ) the causal circumstance is dependently necessary to the effect , which is to say that the effect dependently necessitates the circumstance . |
| 3 | I rather think that they are concentrating on the main task which is to see that the children are properly provided for . |
| 4 | Before grapes are allowed the full AOC status of Champagne , the vines from which they come , whether situated in a virgin vineyard or an old one just replanted , must attain their ‘ third leaf ’ , by which is meant that the plants , having produced foliage for the third time , will be three years old . |
| 5 | Nobody is claiming that the Brooklands offers the last word in performance , fuel economy , space efficiency , silence or ergonomic excellence . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ What is the housewife going to do when she is told that the price of her electricity has now reached 10 pence per unit . |
| 7 | Slot screw fixing at the back of course ; but if the front is n't glued into its groove , who is to say that the back is n't going to remain static , while the front shrinks out of its groove ? |
| 8 | And who is to say that the topography of the Somerset village of East Coker is unimportant to a reading of Eliot 's four Quartets ? |
| 9 | At this stage an author who is arguing that the study of social policy in Britain has been strong on criticism and value judgement but weak on analysis should make his own position very clear . |
| 10 | From one 's earliest years one is taught that the showing of emotion publicly is ‘ bad form ’ . |
| 11 | One is to provide that the rent shall be calculated as if the index had not been adjusted . |
| 12 | If you prefer , however , you can think of fitting a line to transformed data as equivalent to fitting a curve to the raw data ; in effect one is saying that the relationship between the two variables takes the form of a particular curve . |
| 13 | No one is disputing that the number of tournaments has increased and with it comes an overall increase in the numbers of people playing in them . |
| 14 | One is to ensure that the licensing arrangement means the acceptance of certain component parts from the licensor and if there are problems in payment then components can be withheld . |
| 15 | Such evidence as there is indicates that the Russians are still in Baghdad . |
| 16 | In these days of financial sweeteners , surely there are more votes in rescuing 18,000 , mainly elderly , investors from dire financial plight just as there is ensuring that the UK 's last home-grown car manufacturer remains in British hands ? |
| 17 | The lands to the north and east of a line joining these two houses had in the ninth century been conquered and to some degree settled by pagan Scandinavians , who had destroyed the existing monasteries and several of the bishoprics , and such evidence as there is suggests that the Christianity practised within them retained aspects upon which the stricter kind of churchman would have frowned . |
| 18 | Hard evidence is difficult to come by , but what there is suggests that the impact of general management varies markedly across issues and districts . |
| 19 | However , where it is discovered that the tax law does not have the effect that the Government and taxpayers generally thought it had , there are circumstances in which it is right to introduce legislation to restore the position retrospectively to what it was thought to be . |
| 20 | When it is discovered that the combination of certain proportions of charcoal , sulphur and saltpetre produces disagreeable results , then there is no reason why the benefits of gunpowder should be restricted to China . |
| 21 | If it turns out that this is not the case , if it is discovered that the prohibition denies the would-be rapists more of a chance to pursue the good life than it gives their possible victims , then one may have to adjust other features of the political framework to make sure that this does not result in inequality of ability to pursue one 's conception of the good . |
| 22 | When the sentence has been passed , possibly ( as the sentencer indicated in this case ) with the benefit of some mitigation , it is discovered that the means to pay either did not exist or have in one way or another disappeared . |
| 23 | In a university which aims to teach every official European language , it is fitting that the Centre for Speech Technology Research ( CSTR ) , Europe 's largest research institute dealing with speech-based human/computer interface , is a partner in the ESPRIT 2 ( POLYGLOT ) project to build multilingual speech input/output systems for seven of the major European languages . |
| 24 | ‘ Lord , ’ he said , ‘ it is fitting that the ambassador should be your man , and not mine . ’ |
| 25 | It is fitting that the river should , according to legend , be associated with Tamara , a beautiful nymph who in ancient times lived in a cave deep below the earth . |
| 26 | Stepan Trofimovich Verkhovensky is the most suggestive of all Dostoevsky 's accidental men , and it is fitting that the phrase itself should never be used of or by him . |
| 27 | It is stated that the moneys have to be additional to any funding by a member country which qualifies for assistance — hence the word ’ additionality ’ , which is associated with funding . |
| 28 | I NOTE that in Durham County Council 's publication Charter for the Environment it is stated that the council intends to reduce domestic and industrial waste by preparing a recycling plan for County Durham and encouraging district councils to collect waste for recycling . |
| 29 | I NOTE that in Durham County Council 's publication Charter for the Environment it is stated that the council intends to reduce domestic and industrial waste by preparing a recycling plan for County Durham and encouraging district councils to collect waste for recycling . |
| 30 | Later , in a treatise written in the eighteenth century , Mémoire sur la manière de cultiver la vigne et de faire le vin en Champagne ( written , it is believed , by Jean Godinot c. 1718 ) , it is stated that the Champenois had begun to study how to produce a ‘ grey … almost white wine ’ some fifty years before , that is to say approximately 1668 . |