Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] is that " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the crucial point about pretence or acting is that these are activities for which there are criteria too . |
| 2 | Another cliché that persists is that chefs work in contract catering only to avoid long hours and the tough competition of hotel and restaurant kitchens . |
| 3 | Well I get involved in it in so many different ways erm this is a difficult one , but one of the things that happens is that a number of teachers , both from the area and elsewhere , erm do advanced courses at the university and as part of these courses we have a unit on evaluation , and for this they will choose some area of their school work which they and their colleagues — and I emphasise that this is something they do have to involve their colleagues back at school in very much — erm feel it would be useful to look at and then they try and discuss with their colleagues what aspects of it are important and significant and what ought to be seen , and they bring this discussion back and we all discuss together there 'll be different teachers working on different problems the different ways in which they could approach this problem and how they might most usefully be able to do it and at the end of the exercise they will have found out quite a lot about this particular area of teaching and very often we find that the people they 've consulted have themselves got quite interested in it and begun to realize that it 's not being done in a way that 's there to threaten them , they 're not sending a report to the headmaster or the Chief Education Officer or anything like that — it 's for the benefit of the people doing the work themselves . |
| 4 | The problem that exists is that factions of governors who are members of the European Central Bank and who disagree with its policies may join together to frustrate them at the national level . |
| 5 | All that happened is that the electric field drew some charges to the surface of the dielectric which caused then some additional charges to appear on the surface of the conductor . |
| 6 | ‘ All that happened is that I over-reacted , ’ he said at last , after a very long pause . |
| 7 | One can , of course , go on writing scenarios and juggling the figures almost indefinitely ; the only sure thing that emerges is that stabilizing the climate by halving CO 2 emissions is going to demand a very great — and expensive — effort by the industrialized nations . |
| 8 | An important element that emerges is that discussions and explanations of physical abuse and neglect may be seen most productively as a problem relating to parenting , which in turn needs to be located in an understanding of social class and the gendered divisions of child care , while sexual abuse , to a much greater extent , needs to be understood in relation to male power and masculine socialization . |
| 9 | The difference that emerges is that whereas Labov 's statement is based on speaker-agreement within the dimension of social class ( and hence derivative from the ‘ shared value ’ hypothesis of stratificational class theory , on which see chapter 7 ) , the characterization that I have built up thus far is based on the variables of age , sex , area and network , within a single social class , and without reliance on a prior model or theory of social class . |
| 10 | The key issue that emerges is that many private companies do n't actually want what they ought to have , which is more long term loans and more private equity , and less overdrafts and their short term loans . |
| 11 | The only difficulty that arises is that there are several texts of Scaevola which seem to anticipate the interpretation of a pecuniary modus as a trust . |
| 12 | yesterday , they erm they got Jacqueline and told Jacqueline that if know is that you call them bus shelter . |
| 13 | No such luck : what makes sex much more complicated but also much more interesting and rewarding is that every single one of us has to learn what it 's all about for ourselves — as unique individuals . |
| 14 | The point of using your imagination and dreaming is that , once you have an outline of the dream , you can then begin to think about it more and more in detail until you can bring it back into your own reality . |
| 15 | Here , the information presented as given is that Mr Rowland wants something and the information presented as new is that this something is the early publication of the report . |
| 16 | As to the type of employment the interesting feature that I experienced over the last two to three years as shown is that the inquiry level the type of inquiries has tended to focus on manufacturing and the attraction has been the quality of the work force , that is both in skill and its healthiness you know the liability and there are other issues in there too about where Britain is at these days in terms of immunisation wage levels , but it is the people that are themselves the major attractors so the potential work force in the locality that is the major attractor . |
| 17 | The reason why this specific condition is not regarded as repeated is that it is incompatible with the condition to which the substitution is subject : the substitutes are to be admitted if no children are born to the testator or if any born die before puberty , whereas the manumission is subject to the condition that there are children who are still alive at puberty . |