Example sentences of "[is] [adv] that [pers pn] [vb -s] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It is not that he does n't care , just that his sense of values are different — not better , not worse , just different . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It is not that she does not know what to say , it is that there is not enough time to say all she knows . |
| 6 | It was n't her reaction that I was wary of , it 's just that she does n't even know how she made her children so how was she going to understand what I was trying to tell her ! |
| 7 | It 's just that he seems so caring … in the work he does with the handicapped … ’ |
| 8 | It 's just that he has n't , to me , changed enough , he 's still stuck up with all these various things . |
| 9 | It 's not that he ceases altogether to be the eternal student , but that he becomes reshaped and misshaped into an aberration . |
| 10 | Yeah well it , it 's probably that he 's just got one . |
| 11 | Most people er recognise that er being able to park in a space in a busy street is an important part of driving , and the surprise is really that it 's never been part of the test before . |
| 12 | Zednik says : ‘ Petr is still extrovert on court but the difference is now that he does n't lose his concentration on the next point as much as he used to . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ It is n't that he has totally gone away , it 's just that I ca n't see him as I used to . ’ |
| 14 | For what guarantee is there that it does so objectively ? |
| 15 | ‘ A crucial problem in the law of rape is precisely that it focuses unswervingly upon the non-consent of the complainant . |
| 16 | The greater benefit of the computer to statisticians is therefore that it does not become ‘ bored ’ by a large number of simple tasks . |