Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] is that " in BNC.

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1 The Americans tried to do it in Panama , what disgusts me is that these are the pictures that sold , the ones done when there was no more opposition .
2 ‘ What angers me is that they were on a government controlled game reserve and planned it carefully .
3 ‘ However , what upsets me is that I have heard unconfirmed rumours that some of the riders were threatening to pull out if I were put in the third row of the grid as was at first planned .
4 What impresses me is that when the causes of this ancient conflict have been forgotten , except by those who have made a study of it , this monument remains , crudely chiselled and doubtless seldom visited , testament to three modest souls who died for what they believed in and who are otherwise lost to history .
5 What astonishes me is that the whole subject of injury from radiation seems to have been treated at the time with a casualness that approaches imbecility .
6 What amazes me is that , in spite of the horrific nature of what I have seen , I feel neither repulsion nor revulsion .
7 What worries me is that they may break down the wall scrambling over it .
8 But what worries me is that , since middle age has been put to fright , will old age descend overnight like a sudden frost on the dew ? ’
9 What worries me is that it is not going to end there .
10 I 'm no expert , but what worries me is that , when you 're dealing with madmen , they increase their demands at the slightest sign of weakness . ’
11 ‘ The one thing that worries me is that I do n't think he cares .
12 The only thing , the only thing that worries me is that the thing gets priority .
13 Now the thing that worries me is that the N R A and our linkage with them is I do n't think it 's early days for them and they have n't got the the power and the erm law behind them to enforce it as the way which I think most of us would like to think of have a erm erm an organization tha that can in fact start bringing the law in that if people fail to do what they say erm so that aspect I think I now Chris also mentioned this erm tilting in West Sussex and again that mentioned in the structure plan , because I six mill a year but in ten years that 's two and a half inches .
14 But I think there is I mean something that ought to be mentioned one of the things that worries me is that there is n't here today a man of the type that I meet every day in Oxford who says ‘ sexual harassment ?
15 ‘ What worries us is that our sales could be affected because fingers of suspicion are being pointed at us . ’
16 Cos what normally happens is with tetanus , that the reason it kills you is that you stop breathing because your muscles that work your lungs , the diaphragm , the intercostal muscles between the ribs , those seize up and you just stop breathing .
17 What happens there is that a ‘ really gay ’ reading of Coward is put into play , much as I have already done with Brief Encounter , but on the grounds that a homosexual writer can only write about homosexuality ( analogous cases would be the insistence that Edward Albee 's Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf is ‘ really ’ about a gay couple , or that Tennessee Williams 's Blanche Dubois is nothing but a transposed drag queen ) .
18 What Aristotle says there is that the demos would like to be a monarchos , an autocrat , he does not quite say that it is .
19 What concerns me is that a group of clubs had clandestine meetings .
20 What concerns me is that , in effect , the Minister is saying that all campaigns are condemned before they begin .
21 What concerns me is that the vast majority are not coming to enjoy the Park but are using the roads as convenient thoroughfares .
22 Bill and Kath , along with their loyal staff have put virtually a lifetime 's effort into acquiring the immense amount of stock contained at PAS , and the one thing that really concerns them is that if anything should ever happen to either of them , what would be the future for all the stock ?
23 The main shift as he sees it is that the service has become cash limited overnight .
24 What concerns us is that if those things are done outside the IASC 's control , it threatens to undermine our credibility .
25 There will be a more intensive look at this problem later , but for now all that concerns us is that the job security component of the company loyalty is reflected at national level in official unemployment rates .
26 For the moment , what concerns us is that this government is the product of change extending over several centuries , coming to fruition only in the past century .
27 Gravedigger Jose Molina said : ‘ What scares me is that I think I 'll be her first victim . ’
28 Likewise , it is submitted that no modern court would say as Sir George Jessell MR did in Printing and Numerical Registering Co v Sampson ( 1875 ) LR 19 Eq 462 : … if there is one thing which more than another public policy requires it is that men of full age and competent understanding shall have the utmost liberty of contracting , and that their contracts when entered into freely and voluntarily shall be held sacred and shall be enforced by courts of justice .
29 I follow the I follow the er the point , but the thing that puzzles me is that your South Ryedale local plan allocations have arisen out of the discussions on the Greater York study , yes ?
30 ‘ What surprises me is that you 're aware of it .
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