Example sentences of "[noun sg] [is] that i [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The wood is alder and the deal is that I scaled down the body a little bit .
2 My biggest comment on football is that I do n't like Sunderland … or Gazza ( Gascoigne ) .
3 ‘ The end result is that I 've large arrears on the centre 's mortgage , and now the building society is threatening repossession in the new year , unless we can clear the arrears .
4 So now I know , but the result is that I 've had two years of injury , followed by two years of doing completely the wrong thing . ’
5 Further , it makes me angry with myself to find that the perfectly natural and utterly unfair result is that I begin to dislike Paxford , no exercise of the will convincing me that it is not the unfortunate P. who is boring me with his views on everything under the sun .
6 This went smoothly and is a great improvement but in order to create the compressed drive and double the hard disk capacity the SuperStor program took my hard disk ( drive C : ) and seemed to create a compressed drive D : it then swaps drive D and drive C so that the compressed drive is now C : The result is that I seem to be locked out of my old drive D in Rom which has one or two useful bits on — like a hardware check program .
7 Therefore , the result is that I dismiss the claim as against the second defendant .
8 My reply is that I have sought to identify some of the congeries of qualities of the legal institution of marriage , not to identify its ‘ essence ’ .
9 The disadvantage of being the Society 's spinster is that I spend all weekend smelling of sheep .
10 ‘ The greatest irony is that I thought he could help me in my research on rape , ’ she says .
11 ‘ The irony is that I did n't realise till Christmas , when I knew I loved you , that it was someone like you I should have been looking for all these years since . ’
12 and the biggest tragedy is that I know you know what you want to say
13 He told TODAY soon after the tragedy : ‘ My only crime is that I fell in love with another girl . ’
14 The wonder is that I write
15 The wonder is that I write
16 ‘ The main benefit is that I 've enjoyed it ; that 's my yardstick . ’
17 ‘ The main benefit is that I 've enjoyed it ; that 's my yardstick . ’
18 The answer to the second is that I agree that Crime Concern , which enjoys all-party support in the House , does excellent work .
19 What clouds the issue is that I have caught hundreds of bream , of all sizes , and from a variety of waters , when the surface of the water has not been broken once by a fish .
20 ‘ The answer to your question is that I do n't know .
21 Yes well the , the question is that I notice in the assets that investments at cost were twenty five million , the present market value is twenty eight million , indeed since that 's been written it may even be more and when I looked down to the other side of the accounts , I noticed interest on capital of twelve hundred and four pounds and I wonder where the interest from the twenty eight million has gone to .
22 If you move straight from chapter 5 to chapter 8 you will get a stark contrast between two theories of justification , and all you need to know for the moment is that I take the intervening chapters to provide a reason against any form of foundationalism .
23 The only reason that I 'm enjoying Neighbours again at the moment is that I have n't seen it for month and I 'm trying to work out which characters have changed , which characters are getting married to which other ones .
24 Luckily this has n't hurt my fish , but the reason for the purchase in the first place is that I plan to set up a marine tank in the near future and I wanted to check my local tapwater .
25 The difference is that I knew what I wanted and he did not .
26 Yes , but the difference is that I 've never seen those houses but I have , I can see those .
27 The only difference is that I suppose er at we have er which is development in North Stockton , we have er erm permission for four hundred erm executive dwellings which is the sort of er market which you could have been looking for at in the past .
28 ‘ I 'm bowling a bit quicker , but they main difference is that I feel more confident and settled this time , ’ he explained .
29 The point 's that I think is trying to be made is that there are a lot of people here tonight who do wish to express an opinion and that opinion is not necessarily formulated in question form .
30 One thing I can say of him with total confidence is that I have never met a man less interested in money .
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