Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [is] that [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The easy way to remember it is that for a ‘ lesser ’ number of degrees , you turn ‘ left ’ , e.g. turning from 350° to 320° is turning to a lesser number and therefore you turn left .
2 The interesting implication of disregarding them is that in so far as the STV can operate and be judged as a PR system , it is not at all because it provides for transfers of votes , but because it is used in pluri-member constituencies in which candidates of more than one party can be voted for effectively .
3 In other words , the difference between ( i ) incitement and ( ii ) being a participant in a crime as one who has counselled or procured it is that in ( i ) the main crime has not been ( or need not have been ) committed by the person so incited , and in ( ii ) it has .
4 True it is that in a simple case the investigation of a suspect 's criminality may well terminate at the moment of charging , but often this will not be so .
5 ‘ What you observe there is that in the battleground seats , the seats where this election will be determined , Labour is doing even better than we are in the national , overall polls , ’ he said .
6 The reason it is now unacceptable to say it is that at some point in recent history , rock-climbers held a secret annual general meeting and decided to keep the word to themselves .
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