Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [is] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I know is that by the time we had entered into residence again that autumn , we found we had made so little progress , and had remained so vague about our aims that , one evening , Harold Mason and I , who had seen more of each other than we did anyone else in the group , resolved to abandon the project altogether ; and I therefore wrote to Eliot , from whom I had not heard further , telling him that our plan had made so little headway that I felt it my duty to tell him not to trouble himself any more . |
| 2 | All I remember is that at one point he walked along with one foot on the kerb and the other in the gutter and was told off for limping . |
| 3 | All we ask is that over the next year , you make four more selections from over 300 titles for children of all ages — each picked by our expert panel for its quality and educational value , and described for you in our free monthly magazine . |
| 4 | Presumably what he means is that at that point they will have lost their representative character and become embodiments of the divine . |
| 5 | Racism is not unique to Western culture — what matters is that at present the West has the power to go with it . |
| 6 | What happens is that on a high speed reach there is so much sideways pressure on the skeg that an area of low pressure around the skeg sucks air down and creates an air pocket around the fin. , therefore making it useless . |
| 7 | In short , what happens is that in England — and here one does mean England , rather than Scotland or Ireland — the non-academic makers and moulders of literary opinion are judging poetry by standards which are sixty years out-of-date . |
| 8 | What happens is that in order to protect ourselves we erect barriers of denial of feeling between us and the pain . |
| 9 | Now if the prediction that follows from this maze of premises turns out to be false ( in our example , if the planet does not appear at the predicted location ) , then all that the logic of the situation permits us to conclude is that at least one of the premises must be false . |