Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [is] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the few things about the penal system that almost everyone agrees on is that England and Wales have an alarmingly high ( and most of the time rapidly rising ) number of people in prison . |
| 2 | What matters most is that we should accept the peculiarity of the method rather than assume it is the natural and only way to behave . |
| 3 | This year , Mr Hume said , one perk which stands out is that offered by Lonrho . |
| 4 | What matters now is that your make-up cares for your skin as well as colours it . |
| 5 | What matters here is that some bats have well-developed muscles attached to the stirrup and to the hammer . |
| 6 | Maybe all that happens now is that you feel tired , but give it a year or two and — ’ |
| 7 | What matters for our p rposes here is that there must be something special about those numbers , because three different species of cicada have independently converged upon them . |
| 8 | Well now erm what it says here is that you want to sort of talk about possible options for a year out and then relevance of archaeology to career in surveying or land management . |
| 9 | What happens here is that if a white lady wants to go to the toilet and she 's working on a line , she does n't ask anyone 's permission , she just gets up — out she goes , powders her nose , has a cigarette , whatever they do — then comes back . |
| 10 | What happens here is that the downstream has to start its resource commitment without any clues regarding upstream output . |
| 11 | But what happens here is that the nucleus itself breaks into two big lumps with a different number of protons in now , so you 've got two new elements . |
| 12 | Now what happens here is that erm normally , you 'll have a , a er an endowment attached which erm has got a sum assured and that sum assured may be about six thousand say , and onto that are added bonuses . |
| 13 | But what happens then is that people stop telling you things . |
| 14 | The difficulty with natural selection which Taylor raises repeatedly is that it explains evolution by chance . |
| 15 | Majority voting satisfies conditions P , I and D. Where it breaks down is that it does not satisfy U , as we have seen with the example of the voting paradox given earlier . |
| 16 | What Wood points out is that , if the system were not made of complementary modules but was redundantly organized with function distributed across all components , there are some conditions under which double dissociations would still arise . |
| 17 | But what Donaldson points out is that the young child 's construal of the task is different from that of adults or older children . |
| 18 | What the rhetorical approach points out is that such dialogue expresses the contrary themes of cultural and ideological life . |
| 19 | What Derrida points out is that this view can creep back into the definition of the sign itself once it has been broken down into a signifier and a signified . |
| 20 | An irony the AEEU points out is that in Japan , employers HAVE to recognise unions by law . |
| 21 | What accountability rests on is that those particular representatives of the local authority have the opportunity to ask any question and have it answered at any time during the three hundred and sixty five days of the year in which we operate , and they are in a specially privileged position to challenge , or question , or talk about , or have answered — any particular point with regard to the work we 're involved with . |
| 22 | The only conditions the Taxman lays down is that you give the same amount regularly for at least four years and that you are a UK taxpayer . |
| 23 | What this means practically is that , for example , a clean picking tone with a bit of slapback and chorus can be changed with the single press of a pedal to a thranging overdrive with concert hall reverb . |
| 24 | What Gowie means probably is that he does n't expect anybody to like him and , because of that , he tends not to behave in a likable way . |
| 25 | What Qaddafi means here is that people should not make alliances outside the nation ( just as many Libyans said it is preferable to marry close — for example , to a father 's brother 's child ) . |
| 26 | Another advantage of being able to tie the punt to stakes so that it remains still is that you can then leger fish , which is otherwise impossible to do correctly due to the punt swinging around and giving false bites . |
| 27 | What Karlsson proposes essentially is that the genes responsible for the disposition to schizophrenia ( he confines himself to this form of psychosis ) also code for creative ability . |
| 28 | The first thing that comes through is that Charlie Francis is a very good coach . |
| 29 | I tell you what I tell you what I tell you what all I knows here is that he I knows Rosie and Wendy . |
| 30 | Think how it feels to be a black child looking at books , advertisements , films , TV , and hardly ever seeing a similar face — the message that comes across is that there is no place for black people in our society . |