Example sentences of "[pers pn] [is] that they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The argument for not considering the other 8,538 votes originally given to him is that they have exhausted their potential . |
| 2 | Mostly it 's that they do n't travel well , whatever flightcases you use . |
| 3 | It 's that they have equal decisions , really so you ca n't say . |
| 4 | You , you ha you establish a rapport of listening for a little while to whatever it is that they 've got to say , and their troubles and their anxieties and I was n't happy that |
| 5 | Today we were close enough to the front of the plane to have a newspaper in English , and not have to settle for one printed in a strange dialect of Latvian ( or whatever it is that they use for those that are always left at the end ) . |
| 6 | The only really naff thing about it is that they serve John Smith 's bitter , but their Guinness was great , so no probs . |
| 7 | I mean we can Toyota can produce , you know , sufficient Corollas or whatever it is that they make at Derby erm , to sat to satisfy the whole of the world market for that particular car , just from one plant . |
| 8 | However desirable it is that they receive training , many do not see it as a practical proposition . |
| 9 | But whatever it is that they seek , this Chinese martial art will , somewhere along the road of disciplined training , provide it . |
| 10 | It is not that people need to change or be ‘ cured ’ ; it is that they need to pursue their thoughts to their logical conclusion and from there make decisions on the basis of what they have discovered about themselves . |
| 11 | But the main thing that came out of it is that they need from us er the client reports . |
| 12 | Yeah find out , I mean exactly sort of trying to find out exactly what it is that they want to think about , suggest , you know |
| 13 | Er the goods that what , not goods that we want to give them like junk food and ludicrous fashions , to find out what it is that they want this of equipment and no , and do n't forget the know-how , I mean we are , we have a hell of a Know-how in this country which is not being used . |
| 14 | It is not that academic critics make a conscious effort to imitate their colleagues in the sciences , it is that they have come to adopt their concept of knowledge , and its professional servicing and supportive structures . |
| 15 | Equally , the discomfort associated with gonorrhoea is usually of a greater order , and men who have suffered repeated attacks of both infections can usually tell which infection it is that they have on any given occasion . |
| 16 | Is it possible to define what it is that they have in common ? |
| 17 | If there is any difference , it is that they have now taken over all the station and the upper classes have generally disappeared . |
| 18 | Now , it is that they have no need to do anything so rash . |
| 19 | It might therefore seem a rather odd choice as a label , but Wimsatt and Brooks 's reason for using it is that they view these analogical or metaphorical relationships as producing effects essentially similar to those for which the word irony is more commonly used , and which they also see as an important part of poetry . |
| 20 | The one thing that really , apar , well not the one thing , many things irritate me about the programme , but one of them is that they get people on so you 've got someone choosing who lives in Edinburgh choosing someone who lives down in Plymouth |
| 21 | Quite apart from anything else , the most likely immediate consequence for them is that they lose their jobs . ’ |
| 22 | The most important thing to know about them is that they work synergistically with minerals : that is they enhance each other , adding up to more than the individual sum of their parts . |
| 23 | The only problem with them is that they do not tell you how . |