Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [adv] that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Directors have sometimes been called trustees , or commercial trustees , sometimes they have been called managing partners ; it does not matter much what you call them as long as you understand what their true position is , which is really that they are commercial men managing a trading concern for the benefit of themselves and all the other shareholders … they are bound to use fair and reasonable diligence in the management of the company 's affairs and to act honestly . |
| 2 | and erm , they 're always stuck together , and so I suppose now she 's now that she 's , her friends has separated she has , she instantly separated . |
| 3 | ‘ The essence of the patent for you is surely that you believe the heat is there and if it can be scaled up , as you hope it can , that is something that could have manifest benefits to everybody . |
| 4 | One is simply that you do n't need to have made a record or done anything very much except earned a local reputation as a watchable band playing original material . |
| 5 | There 's nowhere that you see anywhere advertising |
| 6 | ‘ I only know that there is more that I do not know than that I know , , I answered . |
| 7 | Yeah well it , it 's probably that he 's just got one . |
| 8 | Well really that 's l by and large what groups is all about so it 's clearly that they do and there 's some cases here of sort of cyclists cycling harder and faster when they 've got they 're training with other cyclists or erm when they 're training against the clock . |
| 9 | It 's mostly that I ca n't sleep . ’ |
| 10 | Well yeah , she 's probably gon na be , now , I , no it 's either that she 's going to be well certainly , an introduction to the kind of methods that Donne Donne uses which I , I 'm supposed to follow up on . |
| 11 | Obviously it 's right that we should try and persuade the German government to delay matters as much as possible . |
| 12 | He does n't think it 's right that he should be told that they ca n't hunt on his farm . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's simply that we all thought it so unnecessary , Mr Barnett . |
| 14 | It 's simply that he wants to create a better atmosphere , and show that after all he 's a reasonable man , and we should n't be too hard on him in these days . |
| 15 | " Hazel — dear old Hazel — it 's simply that I know there 's something unnatural and evil twisted all round this place . |
| 16 | It 's simply that I 'm not prepared to see him branded a fraud and a charlatan merely in order to prolong your receipt of them . |
| 17 | It 's not that I 'm totally assured that this time round I wo n't be quite so foolish , it 's simply that I know it 's possible to progress to that stage beyond ‘ falling in love ’ — if I do n't opt out as soon as he starts to look less like Prince Charming and more like Mr Very Ordinary and Boring . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's simply that you and I share a father . ’ |
| 19 | It 's simply that it is not by any means obvious how PR is supposed to deliver all these goodies . |
| 20 | It 's just that they were not inclined to help him out . |
| 21 | And often it 's not that they never had anywhere to live , it 's just that they could n't cope with the responsibilities and the isolation of living on their own . |
| 22 | It 's just that they 'll make such a fuss . |
| 23 | I did n't want to quarrel in front of Flora — it seemed humiliating over something so small — so I said , ‘ Well , it 's just that they seemed so happy and fond of each other . |
| 24 | ‘ And also , when you meet them , they 're exactly the same people — it 's just that they 've got different accents . |
| 25 | The second , does anyone want to say any about that ? it 's just that they probably sent it to the appropriate people . |
| 26 | It 's not that they 're his nappies and he wets them — it 's nothing to do with that — it 's just that they 're endless . |
| 27 | It 's not that the expressions are n't spontaneous or genuine , Bernice said to herself , it 's just that they 're edited . |
| 28 | It 's just that they say if you 're doing physics sometimes you know this might help you |
| 29 | It 's just that they 've probably got so tired of putting petrol in each year |
| 30 | After all , some dot matrix printers can actually produce a greater number of dots per inch than a page printer , it 's just that they are bigger dots and tend to overlap . |