Example sentences of "[is] that [pron] [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Owing to the terrible destruction of scores , the only dramatic work of Monteverdi 's that we know between those of 1607–8 and the last two Venetian operas is a peculiar experiment ‘ in genere rappresentativo ’ , Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda , performed in the Palazzo Mocenigo in Venice in 1624 . |
| 2 | In any other situation the worst thing that can occur is that nothing happens at all . |
| 3 | ‘ You do n't realize , ’ says Myra , Michael 's wife , from the far end of the sofa , ‘ the fantastic thing is that we went through all this scene twenty minutes ago , in the car on the way here . |
| 4 | One good thing is that we communicate with each other . |
| 5 | So what I would suggest is that we reply to this for you . |
| 6 | Today we were close enough to the front of the plane to have a newspaper in English , and not have to settle for one printed in a strange dialect of Latvian ( or whatever it is that they use for those that are always left at the end ) . |
| 7 | THE trouble with debutantes , lamented Lady Tryon , chairman of yesterday 's Berkeley Dress Show , is that they come in such a peculiar range of sizes . |
| 8 | The answer to the question whether motivation arousal patterns derive from one 's past or from the situation in which one finds oneself is that they derive from both . |
| 9 | What can not be denied is that they emerge from much experience in the author , and much original thought , that they are moreover integrated in a fiction which has a power independent of them . |
| 10 | A business relies on a driving personality taking it forward , and the confusion about getting somebody on board who is working with you in the business and who is putting money board , is that they feel to some extent , proprietorial to that business , and you can find that that will result in those individuals who have done that tearing apart the business because they are trying to go in different directions . |
| 11 | Equally , the discomfort associated with gonorrhoea is usually of a greater order , and men who have suffered repeated attacks of both infections can usually tell which infection it is that they have on any given occasion . |
| 12 | There is a local story that Queen Elizabeth spent a night here ; what is certain is that she passed on this road on her way from Burderop to Cirencester . |
| 13 | All that can be said for certain is that I respond to all of it — vixen , trees , plants , birds , the lot — but it does not respond to me . ’ |
| 14 | And I was just squeezin maself into a five and a half when Moira McVitie round the crescent in the cul de sac comes by and shouts out ‘ Hiya there Verena is that you trying on some fuck-me shoes for yer man gettin back . ’ |
| 15 | The sorry thing about teacher training is that it remains within such a restricting framework . |
| 16 | Another difficulty facing this definition or scope for pragmatics , is that it calls for some explicit characterization of the notion of context . |
| 17 | In fact one of the great things about this walk is that it keeps for most of the time to the shoulder of the fells so that they fall away steep sided below you giving you clear views out and down . |
| 18 | But what makes the RNLI extra special is that it appeals to all ages . |
| 19 | ‘ The beauty of bonsai is that it appeals to all ages , ’ he says . |
| 20 | It is an imaginative use of the word , but what is significant about it is that it reappears in that sense in only one other place in the Old Testament , in the passage immediately preceding God 's appearance on Sinai . |
| 21 | The fundamental weakness of this approach is that it relies to some extent on the researchers ' imagination as to what the future may hold , particularly about what new goods and services might emerge , either directly from the new technology or simply because its higher productivity may give consumers greater spending power and so create demands for hitherto undreamed-of goods and services . |
| 22 | The only interesting thing about it is that it happened at all . |
| 23 | The good news is that it works for all ages . |
| 24 | But of course the thing about it is that it works for any shape . |
| 25 | The reason we know that God recognises this dimension in the human personality is that he goes to such great lengths to make it very clear that he loves us , and one of his primary commands to us is that we must love one another . |
| 26 | What makes Gatsby 's action even more splendid is that he knows by this time that Daisy is not going to leave her husband for him . |