Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for the moment , that 's not the point — which is rather that those who have been , legitimately or at least understandably , affronted by the pretensions of Olson as poet should not therefore write him off as anything but what he was : an exceptionally earnest and magnanimous man , and a man moreover who knew , as few poets since John Milton have known , what the polity looks like from the point of view of those who administer it day by day . |
| 2 | What matters is that a limitation has been set ; and now if a child brings out a gun , a knife , a rope ladder or even a box of matches you can check with the list and then either stay in role and say " You may have meant to bring that rope ladder , but it 's not here " , or come out of role and discuss the agreed rules of the drama , one of which is perhaps that in this drama there is no recourse to magic . |
| 3 | Directors have sometimes been called trustees , or commercial trustees , sometimes they have been called managing partners ; it does not matter much what you call them as long as you understand what their true position is , which is really that they are commercial men managing a trading concern for the benefit of themselves and all the other shareholders … they are bound to use fair and reasonable diligence in the management of the company 's affairs and to act honestly . |
| 4 | I think it 's fair to say , that we do not all matters , and I hope that nobody 's here that would appreciate that the audit role is an independent role . |
| 5 | She 's not that I think she 'll know how upset she is . |
| 6 | She 's just that if she did n't take that potion of mine she would have killed herself anyway . |
| 7 | and erm , they 're always stuck together , and so I suppose now she 's now that she 's , her friends has separated she has , she instantly separated . |
| 8 | ‘ The essence of the patent for you is surely that you believe the heat is there and if it can be scaled up , as you hope it can , that is something that could have manifest benefits to everybody . |
| 9 | One is simply that you do n't need to have made a record or done anything very much except earned a local reputation as a watchable band playing original material . |
| 10 | Oh I thought oh I , I , I seemed to remember the Whitney Bay bit and I mean I do n't know what I 've done with the blinking programme last year , I mean they 're all in the magazine rack , but I do n't think that one 's there that was terrific that were n't it ? |
| 11 | There 's nowhere that you see anywhere advertising |
| 12 | if there 's somewhere that that we can |
| 13 | One or two shapes moved through the darkness but most people — There 's not that many , Chesarynth realized . |
| 14 | I tell you what I was quite disappointed as that , there was no , did n't seem to be a couple of stair up in the box office either the Lyceum I could see or there 's not that there 's |
| 15 | so you can go to them and ask them for advice and they ca n't give it , because there 's not that link back to where you know |
| 16 | There 's definitely that needed and , and by and large they seem to fall by slightly on that and in things like breathing apparatus , the wearing of that , and |
| 17 | ‘ I only know that there is more that I do not know than that I know , , I answered . |
| 18 | The charge which the historian must bring against him is not that he was vicious but that he was timid , selfish and worst of all lazy . |
| 19 | It 's probably that Robert Johnson , who finally headed for the crossroads in 1938 , made more money for Sony/Columbia last year than many of their more super-hyped contemporary acts . |
| 20 | Yeah well it , it 's probably that he 's just got one . |
| 21 | Well really that 's l by and large what groups is all about so it 's clearly that they do and there 's some cases here of sort of cyclists cycling harder and faster when they 've got they 're training with other cyclists or erm when they 're training against the clock . |
| 22 | This is , yes , contact that , this is important , because it 's clearly that there is an increase , there 's some evidence of an increase of these things as a sort of little tail end thing , it would have been perfectly good story but quite the other way round . |
| 23 | It 's mostly that I ca n't sleep . ’ |
| 24 | S so it 's , it 's , it 's either that the cadres are being rightist , they are protecting the landlords so they are keeping too much , or the problem is that the cadres , what we looked at earlier , the cadres are getting in themselves and they are taking too much for themselves . |
| 25 | Well yeah , she 's probably gon na be , now , I , no it 's either that she 's going to be well certainly , an introduction to the kind of methods that Donne Donne uses which I , I 'm supposed to follow up on . |
| 26 | It 's not that I want to offend you or anything , I … ’ |
| 27 | He frequents a seedy restaurant — ‘ You see this wretched tavern I spend all my time in , and I enjoy it , or rather it 's not that I really enjoy it , but one must have somewhere to perch ’ : this is the form which the Dostoevsky no-home takes with him , likewise the transpersonal motif first voiced by Marmeladov in this novel , that a man must have somewhere to go . |
| 28 | It 's not that he ceases altogether to be the eternal student , but that he becomes reshaped and misshaped into an aberration . |
| 29 | It 's not that Shatov is somehow proved right and Mrs Virginsky wrong about new life and ( by implication ) God , but that the most natural hope begins to stir in the merely legal father 's heart ; so it would be pompous and artificial to go on talking about futurity , this is the future in the mind 's eye of one rejoicing man : shared , beautiful , fragile ; and the whole novel seems braced to tear itself free of the devils possessing it : |
| 30 | ‘ It 's not that I do n't want to say anything but I just do n't know what to say , ’ John Ryan , the Welsh coach , sighed . |