Example sentences of "[is] [adv] that [pers pn] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SIR JACOB : It is right that she do n't seem desirous to drown the remembrance of her original in her education . |
| 2 | It 's only that I have n't been able to get to the bank , being ill and all that , and I have n't got any money for the rent . |
| 3 | I think we have to be a little bit careful about this because , of course , erm the feeling is not that once they 've been in the job for a little while that they are still amateurs , it 's merely that we do n't require them to know a great deal about what they 're going to do before they start . |
| 4 | Whenever in relation to a loved person , idealized place or personal indulgence I find myself pushing out of mind some disagreeable thought , its relevance ( as distinct from its importance ) is not in doubt ; it is enough that it does spontaneously move me against what I have decided for . |
| 5 | The old man explained his views on the matter afterwards to a Christian friend , ‘ For an ordinary man in normal circumstances it is enough that he believe faithfully in God . |
| 6 | ‘ It is only that I have never been proposed to so abruptly , so boldly before . ’ |
| 7 | Now if you notice Carol 's movements , they are always in a an upward direction and the reason for this is so that you do n't drag the skin , so when you 're whatever you 're doing with your face , whe , when you 're cleansing , toning , and moisturize , always try and keep the movements going up because you do n't want to stretch the face , you do n't want to make any any loose skin any looser than it is |
| 8 | A second reason is perhaps that we have not obtained many of the much-trumpeted benefits that we were promised from the original Common Market . |
| 9 | that 's so that we do n't have to mess about with it , it , it |
| 10 | No , though these are my gloves , it 's so that I do n't get perspiration on the , on the dress , yes , or rings or anything , so |
| 11 | Its importance , however , is not that we know when doubt becomes unbelief ( for only God knows this and human attempts to say so can be cruel ) , but that we should be clear about where doubt leads to as it grows into unbelief . |
| 12 | ‘ It is not that we do n't like banks , just , well , I 've never even had a personal overdraft . ’ |
| 13 | When Sly Stallone ( wearing , these days , more eye-liner than Sophia Loren ) is up there , playing it for laughs on the set , the worst thing is not that you do n't laugh , but that you feel anxious for him . |
| 14 | When you have finished the novel it is not that you have really finished it , but that you have decided to do no more work on it . |
| 15 | It is not that he does n't care , just that his sense of values are different — not better , not worse , just different . |
| 16 | The individualistic bias that Rawls is accused of by Nagel is not that he rules out such conceptions but that he is not neutral regarding them because he makes their successful pursuit more difficult than that of individualistic conceptions of the good . |
| 17 | At each stage the vested interests — of protected tenants , of council tenants , and of local and national politicians — in the system , grew stronger and more complex , so that the wonder is not that it lived so long but that two men were found at last , in Duncan Sandys and Henry Brooke , of sufficient courage and determination to lay the axe to the roots and start hewing a way back to sanity . |
| 18 | The natural way to interpret the EPR experiment is not that it shows up the incompleteness of quantum theory but that it manifests the falsity of naive locality . |
| 19 | She felt a frisson of gratitude at his thoughtfulness ; then , reminded absurdly of Ethel ( who had not so much wanted to be a bridesmaid , as to be asked ) : It is not that I look forward to it , she thought , if Frank was anything to go by , but at least I would expect to be , tonight , a little irresistible … |
| 20 | ‘ It is not that I do n't long for my former mate , But because of you I wo n't reach my flock . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It is not that I have n't got time for girls . |
| 22 | It is not that she does not know what to say , it is that there is not enough time to say all she knows . |
| 23 | Once again these hidden costs have been part of the investment-need right from the beginning — it is just that they have not been looked at closely enough . |
| 24 | It is just that they have both been at it too often recently . |
| 25 | Not that I had a bad opinion of his character , ( I do n't know him ) , it is just that I feel most other clubs would not have even responded to you . |
| 26 | It is just that I do n't know what the man will do . |
| 27 | I did n't want to quarrel in front of Flora — it seemed humiliating over something so small — so I said , ‘ Well , it 's just that they seemed so happy and fond of each other . |
| 28 | It 's just that they 've probably got so tired of putting petrol in each year |
| 29 | Well that 's debatable I think they 've got plenty of people up here to do it it 's just that they do n't want to do it . |
| 30 | It 's just that we went down there . |