Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [verb] that the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further ( 7 ) the causal circumstance is dependently necessary to the effect , which is to say that the effect dependently necessitates the circumstance . |
| 2 | ‘ Which is to say that the idea of being married to him offends you ? ’ |
| 3 | I rather think that they are concentrating on the main task which is to see that the children are properly provided for . |
| 4 | Before grapes are allowed the full AOC status of Champagne , the vines from which they come , whether situated in a virgin vineyard or an old one just replanted , must attain their ‘ third leaf ’ , by which is meant that the plants , having produced foliage for the third time , will be three years old . |
| 5 | Nobody 's betting that the trend will turn . |
| 6 | Nobody is claiming that the Brooklands offers the last word in performance , fuel economy , space efficiency , silence or ergonomic excellence . |
| 7 | The Empire is crumbling into civil war , Daemons are popping up on all sides , and who 's to say that the Great Enchanter does n't have a hand in it somewhere ? |
| 8 | They were in power but I mean who 's to say that the pe there 's not gon na be a civil war and they 'll be thrown out of power . |
| 9 | You 're not the only person who 's noticed that the world 's complicated and everyone 's different , Caro . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ What is the housewife going to do when she is told that the price of her electricity has now reached 10 pence per unit . |
| 11 | And who is to say that the topography of the Somerset village of East Coker is unimportant to a reading of Eliot 's four Quartets ? |
| 12 | Who is to say that the poorer countries of Europe are to be happy with a dominant Germany just because it is said to be good for ‘ Europe ’ ? |
| 13 | Slot screw fixing at the back of course ; but if the front is n't glued into its groove , who is to say that the back is n't going to remain static , while the front shrinks out of its groove ? |
| 14 | Who is to say that the first is not as " complex " as the second or third ? |
| 15 | The person you are about to see is probably a rather harassed individual who is hoping that the ideal employee is going to be , as we have mentioned before , the next person to walk through the door . |
| 16 | At this stage an author who is arguing that the study of social policy in Britain has been strong on criticism and value judgement but weak on analysis should make his own position very clear . |
| 17 | From one 's earliest years one is taught that the showing of emotion publicly is ‘ bad form ’ . |
| 18 | One is to provide that the rent shall be calculated as if the index had not been adjusted . |
| 19 | If you prefer , however , you can think of fitting a line to transformed data as equivalent to fitting a curve to the raw data ; in effect one is saying that the relationship between the two variables takes the form of a particular curve . |
| 20 | No one is disputing that the number of tournaments has increased and with it comes an overall increase in the numbers of people playing in them . |
| 21 | One is to ensure that the licensing arrangement means the acceptance of certain component parts from the licensor and if there are problems in payment then components can be withheld . |
| 22 | When the work of loading the vans and trucks commences , one is persuaded that the chaotic array will never be reduced to order . |
| 23 | There 's feeling that the Queen should withdraw the knighthood . |
| 24 | Such evidence as there is indicates that the Russians are still in Baghdad . |
| 25 | In these days of financial sweeteners , surely there are more votes in rescuing 18,000 , mainly elderly , investors from dire financial plight just as there is ensuring that the UK 's last home-grown car manufacturer remains in British hands ? |
| 26 | First , there is the success of the non-proliferation treaty , and the inhibition on extra states ' developing a nuclear capability ; secondly , there is ensuring that the nuclear capability — particularly the sub-strategic capability — that is at present spread throughout the republics of the former Soviet Union remains under strong control , is brought together and is dismantled at the earliest possible opportunity . |
| 27 | Hard evidence is difficult to come by , but what there is suggests that the impact of general management varies markedly across issues and districts . |
| 28 | The lands to the north and east of a line joining these two houses had in the ninth century been conquered and to some degree settled by pagan Scandinavians , who had destroyed the existing monasteries and several of the bishoprics , and such evidence as there is suggests that the Christianity practised within them retained aspects upon which the stricter kind of churchman would have frowned . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's accepted that the towing tractor will stand idle for some of the time , but at least you are n't taking tankers into the field , ’ he adds . |
| 30 | It 's puzzling that the British public seems to share this feeling of worship for Russian dancers , yet does n't extend anything like the same respect to its own . |