Example sentences of "[is] [adv] that [adj] " in BNC.

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1 if there 's somewhere that that we can
2 The sense is rather that this is how man 's lot came to be , and he should accept it .
3 In fact , language , through abstraction , is a much more efficient form or communication and possesses much more control over its interpretation , and it is rather that this difference in evocation is less likely to be evident in artefactual symbolism than in linguistic symbolism .
4 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 .
5 It seems that problems of proof loom large here : there is a fear that the unscrupulous would manipulate any law permitting ‘ mercy killings ’ , and the argument is presumably that this would put at risk more unwilling parties than a law allowing euthanasia would benefit willing parties .
6 He is right that any settlement must be based not just on discussions between India and Pakistan , as provided for in the Simla agreement , but on the political process in Kashmir .
7 Judge Donald Herrod added : ‘ This is a very dramatic turn of events and it is right that this prosecution should not continue . ’
8 My hon. Friend is right that this country has the best regulatory system for reducing real phone charges .
9 ‘ It 's only that this is such a vast place , ’ said Snodgrass , firmly .
10 That we do not have such an answer , it can be argued , is the fact that what follows , from the occurrence of the effect , is only that that circumstance or another occurred .
11 and I think we must recognise that it is only that many of the questions and questionnaire had they been displayed of what they wanted to propose .
12 The point is only that this is as a direct result of the accounting method adopted rather than any policy decision .
13 The purpose of having a timetable is so that all relevant information can be digested and acted upon , and so that bids do not carry on for an unreasonable length of time .
14 If part of the deep ecologist 's rationale for saving wilderness is so that future generations of humans can savour the orgiastic blood of the hunt ( as Ortega y Gasset describes the recreational slaughter of wild animals ) , animal liberationists can and should unashamedly applaud the efforts to preserve , but not the reasons for doing so .
15 The underlying attitude is perhaps that most people accept mentally handicapped people and are sympathetic towards them , but remain inwardly glad that it has not happened to them or to their children — ‘ there but for the grace of God , go I. ’ They also continue to believe the many myths surrounding the handicapped which have been passed on for decades .
16 Well , I certainly will take it up if I get a copy letter , I mean it is obviously that some departments act differently , and I understand that in any case this is only a letter from the secretary , it 's not him , so I mean , I 'm quite happy to take it up if I get the copy of that , and explain that this department act , does rather differently from some of the others .
17 I d I do n't mean that 's er er a terribly difficult thing but it is just that that does have to happen .
18 The right hon. Member for Manchester , Gorton ( Mr. Kaufman ) and his team are always ingenious in defending whatever the policy of the moment is ; it is just that that policy is changed so often that it leaves a little bit of a question mark over whether they have any plan or direction at all .
19 It is just that some days , and at some times , often in the early hours of the morning , sometimes this is what it feels like ; sometimes it gets me too .
20 The point is just that some basic concepts relating to the experience curve may still be valuable if used with intelligence and discretion .
21 This is n't superstition , it is just that some people seem to attack computers in a way that brings out the worst in them .
22 It 's just that that just how I I had to be .
23 ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ said O'Rourke when they had calmed down , ‘ it 's just that that was the gesture Edmund Kean is supposed to have used on the ‘ Is this a dagger ? ’ speech in Macbeth at the New Theatre Royal , Drury Lane , in 1823 . ’
24 Well I have n't , it 's just that that people have said , you know , when the permissions available can we see it as soon as possible that was all , I just wondered if that document was available ,
25 You know and maybe it 's just that that there 're so many people out there with nothing to do and they just it 's just a a boredom situation maybe I do n't know .
26 Said they were going out it 's just that that was ages ago though .
27 it 's just that all I heard all morning was there 's so many delays there with all the water , surface water erm so I thought well let's try and avoid that .
28 ‘ It 's just that most people only realise that in dreams .
29 It 's just that most newspaper readers , the serious ones that is , would certainly opt for something a bit thicker , like The Independent . ’
30 It 's just that most of us are not honest enough to admit to the fact .
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