Example sentences of "[det] [be] that [pers pn] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason I say this is that they dive just like a peregrine , folding their wings and plummeting like an arrow into the sea to catch their prey . |
| 2 | The main reason for this is that they do n't know how to and probably neither do a lot of their English solicitors . |
| 3 | What 's bad about this is that they do n't take drugs — they 've never touched them — but they want to sell them . |
| 4 | This is that we do not have an a priori conception of reality which allows for a range of possible universes , empirical inquiry determining just which of those possibilities is realized . |
| 5 | The upshot of this is that I 've now become a resident , which makes a weekly tour of junk and antique shops even more vital . |
| 6 | The most amusing part of all this is that I do n't have a lover . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The effect of this is that you do n't have to bother calculating anything — if you use 1in thick material , 7½in diameter . |
| 9 | The reason for this is that you do not just calculate the length and breadth of the pool , but the various areas that are going to accommodate marginal shelves as well . |
| 10 | What 's good about this is that it does n't take too much time . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Another is that it opens up the risk financing options available . |
| 13 | We now know that the reason for this was that they did not dwell or traffic within the walls ; that Lundenwic like Hamwih lay outside , along the Strand or foreshore of the Thames . |
| 14 | The reason for this was that she did n't like Mr. Gordon . |
| 15 | Of course , the effect of all this was that she did n't like my children very much , and she had some justification for this . |
| 16 | Her interpretation of this was that I did n't like him because I was jealous of their relationship . |
| 17 | The advantages of these are that they last much longer and cost much less to run ( the saving well outweighs the higher asking price ) ; their disadvantages are that the light they give is not quite so ‘ warm ’ and does not come on instantly . |
| 18 | Most significant news of all is that we 've just won the highly respected Dataquest Customer Satisfaction Poll against competition from the other best manufacturing names in the industry . |
| 19 | The remarkable thing about it all is that he had already caused significant bad debts when his Pergamon Press failed in the seventies . |
| 20 | The best news of all is that you pay remarkably little for all this bounty . |
| 21 | the same is that you do n't match your airport passenger to your airport demand . |
| 22 | ‘ I think the reason for that is that we spend about 45 minutes hitting balls on the range and 10 minutes putting before we tee off . |
| 23 | The short answer to that is that we do n't know . |
| 24 | The key reasons before that is that they 've actually put the across in the way that 's not totally compatible with learning side . |
| 25 | My answer to that is that I do n't feel that my job is to do PR . |
| 26 | That is that I do n't mind . |
| 27 | Now the idea behind that is that it builds up and keeps in trim the muscles of the feet and ankles and legs , which is going to be what gets you about because you realize your retirement is going to be as good as your legs . |
| 28 | One thing to be said of that is that it does not at all follow , from the fact that we can not give particular descriptions of items that fall within a set , that we can not satisfactorily conceive of and describe the set . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | No that 's that you do n't |