Example sentences of "[pers pn] [is] that [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What Steve is saying r recommending to you is that we do n't take up that purchase this year , which is in our budget . |
| 2 | Our pledge to you is that we owe no allegiance to any manufacturer ( though we reserve the right to let their best brains entertain and inform you on these pages ) . |
| 3 | Suppose that you decide that the employee 's main payoff from constantly telephoning you is that he receives encouragement and reassurance . |
| 4 | ‘ What I was going to tell you is that he had written her a part in one of his plays . |
| 5 | All Lori will tell you is that she knows nothing about the jade , ’ Paige advised him steadily . |
| 6 | what we 'll say to you is that you got that parcel on Tuesday |
| 7 | Cos what normally happens is with tetanus , that the reason it kills you is that you stop breathing because your muscles that work your lungs , the diaphragm , the intercostal muscles between the ribs , those seize up and you just stop breathing . |
| 8 | The unspoken message of the video they lend you is that you start the week head-planting in the snow and finish it bouncing imperturbably down virgin slopes . |
| 9 | And er with that in mind , it 's possible that people do want to top up their income , because the one thing I will stress to you is that you do n't want to have to start having to back-pedal er when you retire . |
| 10 | And then after a brief explanation , ‘ The only reason I write to you is that you warned me this would happen . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ The main reason that I am contacting you is that I thought you might be interested to know that John ( stage name Joan Rawson ) was awarded the Eric Rowley Trophy for the artist who has done the most for charity over the last 12 months . |
| 12 | ‘ The reason the police have n't come to question you is that I have n't told them about my suspicions . ’ |
| 13 | The only difference with you is that I used two grains of gunpowder and no oil . |
| 14 | I think the general concept that we is that we do not want to erm envisage we hope we will not envisage proposals which generate a scale of development erm which is quite clearly not related erm to the needs of the Greater York area . |
| 15 | The argument for not considering the other 8,538 votes originally given to him is that they have exhausted their potential . |
| 16 | What makes it attractive to him is that it seems to fascinate his parents . |
| 17 | I 'm ready to believe yowl admit of their recommendations all I presume to say of him is that he writes me he shall be really dilligent and the enclosed specimens he has grown which I hope yowl puruse make it look as if he would prove so . |
| 18 | Only information I gathered from him is that he abandoned his yacht because he thought his spare fuel tank was going to blow up . |
| 19 | But all that happens to him is that he topples into the mud with his arm broken and his face bruised from where the broken arm was smashed against it . |
| 20 | The best thing about him is that I like him . |
| 21 | I was too far away to observe what colour Enid Starkie 's eyes were ; all I remember of her is that she dressed like a matelot , walked like a scrum-half , and had an atrocious French accent . |
| 22 | I do n't know whether it 's that we want much , too much |
| 23 | If we go to an exhibition together we find that we like the same paintings ; so I think it 's that we have an empathy in our way of painting , in the whole attitude to painting . |
| 24 | Mostly it 's that they do n't travel well , whatever flightcases you use . |
| 25 | It 's that they have equal decisions , really so you ca n't say . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's that it does n't suit you . |
| 27 | Not you , it 's that it 's , it 's been on show . |
| 28 | It 's not so much that , it 's that I prefer my cooking to your cooking . |
| 29 | I think you 're , you 're often asked to do reactive tasks when I 've done all my tasks , you know I 've got all my staff doing this , and then I 've got to help down on the shopfloor , and it 's not that I 'm doing something that I 'm , you know , I should be doing as a manager , it 's that I 've done all of mine , and I 'm going out to give them a hand . |
| 30 | Because I would think it 's that I had n't given you the |