Example sentences of "[det] [is] [that] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The problem with this is that discovering what untrained ( or ‘ naive ’ ) speakers feel about their own language is not as easy as it might sound .
2 The justification for this is that established Government is necessary for the existence of society and therefore its safety against violent overthrow must be secured .
3 One side-effect of this is that affixing spikes and suchlike for climbing is impossible — they just slip out next round as the hole they made heals .
4 The reason for this is that following the breach of condition which leads to termination , the innocent party has alternative remedies : he can either affirm or terminate the contract .
5 Another is that co-operating individuals jointly benefited even though they were not related ; the co-operative behaviour has evolved because those who did it were more likely to survive as individuals and reproduce than those that did not .
6 The most important of these is that provided by Professor Beer in his recent work Britain Against Itself .
7 The most important of these is that depicting the Royal Maundy ( Beauchamp Collection ) and an early portrait of Elizabeth I ( Royal Collection ) .
8 Perhaps the best protected hole of all is that built by the female trap-door spider .
9 The former is that contained in the UK Data Protection Act .
10 The reasoning behind that is that come from a lower class generally if you ca n't you know you ca n't go to a nursery school cos you have to pay for nursery school education in this country .
11 " Well , that 's that got to do with it ? "
12 That 's that remains our intention , we would n't want this article fourteen direction to remain in force indefinitely , even though g the G D O said that we can do that .
13 So that 's that sounds quite a lot to ask the political party
14 But look at Lionheart , they said that 's , that 's that plays perfectly , you know when you running and those pikes come in underneath you .
15 ‘ Well , that 's that settled , ’ said Zach with finality .
16 I think it should be remembered that that public support actually was against a requirement of one thousand nine hundred dwellings , which is not quite the proposal being put forward by the County at the moment , but it is clear that there seems to me n not to be any public or great strength of public objection to the sort of proposals that are now before you in this enquiry , and it also seems to me that the reasons behind erm that that public support are essentially because it meets the first requirement of paragraph P P G thirty three , that the alternative expansion of existing towns or villages will represent a less satisfactory method of providing land for new housing that is needed , I think that is the essence of the public support , and so first of I think you can say that that 's that means that first criteria , and certainly it seems to meet the second automatically because it an expression of public preference .
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