Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] is [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spend two days in tour fatigues with this new , arena-compatible Nirvana production machine — ‘ I do n't know the names of most of the crew , ’ admits Dave — and it dawns on you that the overriding issue here is not that Kurt Cobain is on heroin ( or is n't , or was , or is and is trying to get off ) but that his wife is a Grade A pain in the arse . |
| 2 | My point here is simply that they do go some way to explaining why patterns of co-residence fluctuate over time . |
| 3 | The point then is not that the subjective impression is infallible but that without it no choice of ends can arise , very much as no choice of means can arise without highly fallible generalizations about causal connexions . |
| 4 | The point then is not that reforms will necessarily fail in their objective of furthering the public good ( though this is normally supposed ) , but that interference in company affairs for that purpose is morally impermissible . |
| 5 | What Hamilton could see was that the talents of Warner Bros had combined to produce a film that was not so much about the Legion as ‘ about the kind of short-sighted , uninformed and well-enough-meaning men who have to be given an understanding of what democracy really is so that they will not go on and on providing tools for such legions ’ . |
| 6 | Remember the little truth theory that we did in lecture two or three , or when you do semantics in logic by swinging two model theories , when you interpret the expressions of a logical language , you have to assign a structure and , er the claim here is just that the natural language , that structure , structure that the semantic interpretation rules apply to , it 's just the syntactic structure . |
| 7 | Again , the precise effects of British imperial domination are inevitably matters of dispute ( Kumar and Desai , 1983 ) and it is important to emphasize that the claim here is not that the level of present development of the regions of the Third World in question is simply the outcome of their colonial experience , but that it is difficult to understand the nature of this underdevelopment and the continuing exploitation of these countries within the international economic order without a grasp of the imperial impact . |
| 8 | The argument here is not that all children should have access to all aspects of the curriculum . |
| 9 | The argument here is not that the group shares a common material objective interest which unites them , though they may well do so ; such an argument , if framed in a strict manner , might take elite theorists perilously close to Marxist positions , in which the material interests related to the appropriate mode of production specify the class . |
| 10 | The argument here is essentially that a gradation scheme might lead to a lighter sentence in certain cases than would otherwise have been imposed . |
| 11 | The difficulty here is often that it is not clear whether the problem is meant to bear a relation to the book-work question or not . |
| 12 | The weakness here is not that the assumptions are incorrect but that they are incomplete . |
| 13 | Whether or not that is the case , the problem here is not that Jesus was a man , but that this man has been considered unique , symbolic of God , God Himself- or whatever else may be the case within Christianity . |
| 14 | With the increasing impact of information technology the problem today is sometimes that there seems to be too much information rather than too little . |
| 15 | The reason that people do not generally look into alternative credit terms in any detail certainly is not that they feel pushed willy-nilly into one particular type of credit . |