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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ I only know that there is more that I do not know than that I know , , I answered . |
| 5 | That is , our problem is not one of vicarious liability , of finding some reason why a shareholder should share some other person 's or group 's primary responsibility ; it is rather that we can find no one else who is primarily responsible and in whose responsibility he might share . |
| 6 | It is rather that he realigns fantasy and fact by using a set of ready-made and entirely artificial rules governing talking animals to explore the workings of a no less unnatural , controlled and rigidly inhuman system . |
| 7 | It is not repentance ; it is simply that they are scared for their skins and wish to save parliamentary seats in the general election . |
| 8 | ‘ Clearly the reason they claim to have burnt it is simply that they realize it would be too risky to let us examine it . ’ |
| 9 | Yet , much that they wrote then resonates as much today : it is simply that we do not comprehend it . |
| 10 | Perhaps it is simply that you do not have the courage to do so . |
| 11 | It is simply that he is a married man , around 30 , with wife and children , a car , a mortgage ( ? ) etc. , etc . |
| 12 | It is simply that I was brought up in the East of Scotland and have lived in places whither the Orangemen walketh not , neither in triumph nor provocation . |
| 13 | ‘ It is simply that I have different ideas than the gentlemen who give places to men … . ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ It is simply that I expected better service , ’ he snapped . |
| 15 | It is simply that it left us stranded . |
| 16 | If this book has a significant weakness , it is simply that it takes three chapters to get into its stride . |
| 17 | Similarly , C. S. Lewis 's The Allegory of Love is praised by Kathleen Tillotson for charting the nature and evolution of two " principles " , or fundamental movements of the human mind — romantic love and allegory : " It is rarely that we meet with a work of literary criticism of such manifest and general importance as this . " |
| 18 | I know everything was very very strict indeed there was nothing like it is nowadays that I had but erm |
| 19 | the great bulk of community care is provided by friends , family and neighbours … it is right that they should be able to play their part in looking after those close to them … service providers should make practical support for carers a high priority . |
| 20 | It is right that they should be dealt with in a humane and honourable manner . |
| 21 | It is right that they should be given a place of honour in the history of ancient art . |
| 22 | Press hostility to this idea was scarcely free of self-interest , but there were bigger issues at stake and it is right that they prevailed . |
| 23 | In our efforts to promote extensification of livestock production , it is right that we should question whether livestock production should be allowed unrestricted use of technology in order to produce maximum output from the minimum amount of land . |
| 24 | It is right that we should consider tonight the question how we enhance the democracy , responsibility and accountability of the European institutions and of our own Ministers to the national Parliament . |
| 25 | However , if someone wilfully refuses to pay the charge , it is right that he should have to pay the price for his illegal action . |
| 26 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that it is right that he should restate the Government 's commitment to their policy in Northern Ireland , based on the rule of law ? |
| 27 | Leeds is now the third largest city in England and the 20th in Europe , so it is right that it should have international ambitions . |
| 28 | The PAC wants hard and fast information , and it is right that it should . |
| 29 | It is right that it should be raised on the Floor of the House . |
| 30 | The Engineering Employers Federation says that its members ’ strongly support the Government 's objective of providing a balanced and effective framework of trade union and industrial relations law ’ and that ’ the step by step approach has been seen by all to have worked successfully and it is right that it should continue . ’ |