Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [verb] [is] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | What Westminster MPs tend not to understand is that the beneficiaries of this process have not been their cousins in the Strasbourg Parliament , nor even the European Commission , but the Council of Ministers . |
| 2 | It is impossible to describe in a few words , but one thing that many knitters do not realise is that it can be worked from either left or right and that some people find one side much easier than the other ( not necessarily related to whether you are right or left handed either ! ) . |
| 3 | What they do not say is that on this ‘ best ’ measure , police performance has in fact improved marginally , not declined ( from 7.9 in 1972 to 9.6 in 1986 . ) |
| 4 | It must sometimes puzzle the Russians how easy it is to plant such nonsense on British intelligence but what they do not appreciate is that if defectors did not invent such silly tales MI5 and MI6 would do so themselves anyway . |
| 5 | What comes across in both my interests and any skills which is n't really reconcilable with this I do n't think is that erm I 've got sort of , because of , I think it 's cos of my academic experience cos I did an arts degree with a lot of research and stuff , is that I , I like researching , data collecting , processing information . |
| 6 | ‘ What they do n't realise is that they are dealing with a high-risk food product , ’ he warned . |
| 7 | Like people saying PJ Harvey will be amazing when she gets outside herself … what they do n't realise is that she already has . |
| 8 | ‘ I plan the holidays and what the others do n't know is that , in the course of planning , I 've developed the precise art of finding somewhere to stay where , when you open your bedroom window , in front of you is the most splendid bit of Romanesque architecture . |
| 9 | ‘ The thing that people do n't know is that there was a horrendous gap in between . |
| 10 | ‘ What they do n't know is that we do n't look like that either . ’ |
| 11 | What you do n't know is that she saved my life during the war . ’ |
| 12 | What most visitors who admire it do n't know is that its original home was the middle of Oxford town centre — just below Carfax tower — with traffic flowing around it from all directions . |
| 13 | But what I do n't like is that Hilary Frome seems to spend a lot of time with him . ’ |
| 14 | What I do n't like is that we went back did n't we , I do n't know if you saw my thing to David where we report back on a fax , report every month |
| 15 | What the ads do n't say is that the food is as low on nutrition as it is high on unhealthy fats and additives . |
| 16 | ‘ But what you do n't understand is that it 's Leo I 'm doing it for . ’ |
| 17 | What these marauding fund-raisers do n't understand is that there 's only three of me , and two of those are wives and working mothers . |
| 18 | THOMPSON : ‘ All I 've just said is that it was not a good enough explanation of what I got and I do n't think anybody has been told , not only to the media out there , myself who is the most important one . |
| 19 | But what we 've already found is that our involvement with Connections has led to our speaking to people who ask what we do and this has thrown up other opportunities . ’ |
| 20 | The view I 've always expressed is that he is an extremely good footballer . |
| 21 | What we have said what members have already resolved is that they do not believe that it is necessary for him to intervene . |
| 22 | The third reason why local people have not benefited is that Dockland development draws in workers from a very wide area across London and the South-East . |
| 23 | The reason that sales have not boomed is that many customers have been disappointed at what robots do for them . |
| 24 | The more generalized view which I have thus adopted is that we have goals which relate to our work . |
| 25 | I think the ah just to remind you what we have always said is that that would improve our gross margin situation would be a change in in house manufacturing goods and whilst it 's a bit early to tell we are actually saying to you that the sales post Boxing Day have been in addition |
| 26 | For what we have also to notice is that in some of the most advanced technologies — in one sector video and new kinds of print reproduction ; in another sector common-carrier types of transmission , such as cable and teletext opportunities for some significant recovery of direct access to their means of production , for some modern kinds of cultural producer , either exist or can be realistically looked for . |
| 27 | An interpretation I have often heard is that God 's ways are mysterious and wonderful , and it may well be that in the very last moments of the person 's life they had an encounter with God that set them on the path to eternal life . |
| 28 | What molecular geneticists — among them Sharp — have now discovered is that one of these families does in fact have some of the hallmarks of a transposon , and moreover has special properties that would tend to promote its expansion in succeeding generations . |
| 29 | What you have n't realized is that you 've already had the moon for that day but because it was up and in and in the sky during the day time hours you did n't see it . |
| 30 | The reason for the rather dull image herbs have previously had is that most were grown to provide leaves for culinary use , and the flowers were of secondary importance ; thyme and mint are typical . |