Example sentences of "[am/are] [adj] [is] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is encouraging that the primary visual areas of both rats and monkeys receive input from the lateral geniculate nucleus of the thalamus but we should be aware of some circularity here since one of the criteria used for saying that the lateral geniculate nuclei in the two groups are homologous is that they both project to primary visual cortex ! |
| 2 | The reason I am interested is that at that time I was off work for six months and I suspected I had the illness . |
| 3 | His central thesis is that the only sense in which the people he describes are barbarous is that their customs are other than our own . |
| 4 | However , the reason that the contemporary attacks are different is that the shackling of trade unions was an integral part in Margaret Thatcher 's economic package and if the only reason for this legislation was because it was part of a failed economic strategy then that in itself should be enough , but the real effect of anti-trade union legislation should be examined in the context of a wider social and industrial parameter , and if we take just one Act , the Employment Act of nineteen eighty , we can get some idea of the effect of Tory employment legislation . |
| 5 | Many unemployed people are actually quite invisible in the sense of one of the things that happens when you 're unemployed is that you 're not actually being taken out of your home environment so much , and unemployed people spend a lot more of their time at home than erm do employed people . |
| 6 | Another sense in which you 're anti-humanist is that you have no truck with ideas of personal ( or social ) progress — people achieving self-sufficiency and fullness of being by becoming more ‘ conscious ’ . |
| 7 | The sense in which they are natural is that such ways of behaving are grounded in instinctive reactions , and their prototypes are observed in some animals . |
| 8 | Another reason why they are peripheral is that they are so largely rural — in the developing countries too , the rural areas are in a peripheral relation to the urban centre . |
| 9 | One reason why these two interpretations are commonplace is that , until recently , there has been no clearly articulated theoretical position which offered a viable alternative . |
| 10 | Mr Patten said later : ‘ The important thing as far as I am concerned is that it looks as if we are going to have a Conservative government . |
| 11 | There was one who told his wife , ‘ The reason I 'm late is that Harry died at the third hole , so we had to go all the way round the other fifteen holes on the course , dragging Harry . ’ |
| 12 | Yeah , right , what I 'm after is that set one . |
| 13 | The price you pay for being able to chew when you are young is that you will run out of teeth when you are old . |
| 14 | When one considers that the main reason that words are absent is that they are proper nouns , which will also be unavailable from the larger lexicon , it is clear that omissions are unavoidable . |