Example sentences of "[vb base] [that] [indef pn] is [verb] " in BNC.

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1 At first , we thought everyone else was booming while we were down in the dumps , but from talking to other businessmen you realise that everyone is suffering the same . ’
2 Imagine yourself being in a crowd where English is being spoken , but suddenly you sense that somebody is talking in another language .
3 The changes in the health service , in education , in local authorities , mean that everything is put on hold , he said .
4 Although I am convinced that the prime management problem is ‘ making it happen ’ , one has to accept that in life there is always at least an evens chance that one is going the wrong way .
5 Will my hon. and learned Friend ensure that everything is done to enable food supplies to be extended to the Baltic states as well as to Russia ?
6 When you suspect that someone is flattering you in order to manipulate , or responding in an artificial manner , ask for specific detail .
7 That there is an application called desktop publishing is certainly not in doubt ; when IBM sets up a Business Unit ( the last one was to develop the PC ) you know that something is going on .
8 If we know that someone is injured , I as the doctor will go out too .
9 The theories to be discussed in this section of the chapter all suppose that something is learned during the pre-exposure phase of a latent inhibition experiment that interferes with the formation of the CS-US ( conditioned-unconditioned stimulus ) association during the conditioning phase of the experiment .
10 Suppose that one is choosing between two actions , both of which produce either no pain or the same amount , while one produces more pleasure .
11 Your laughter can be unrestrained only if you believe that nobody is getting hurt .
12 School makes me nervous ; when I walk down the corridor I feel that everyone is staring at me , and because a lot of people know about my anorexia they think it their job to comment constantly on what I am eating or not eating , and how much better I look now that I 've put on weight .
13 If we feel that something is going to be an ethical consideration , then we will probably not get involved in the project …
14 I have noticed that even people who claim that everything is predestined and that we can do nothing to change it look before they cross the road .
15 You want to promote anticipatory grieving and emphasise that everybody is going to be affected . ’
16 ‘ Forgive me , ’ Alexandra said , feeling a recurring surge of the courage that had invaded her at Langley Dene , ‘ but I think — with respect , I think that everyone is making too much of my meeting Mr Swinton .
17 But fundamentalists are also really dangerous , at least for a while , because hypocrites think that everybody is talking double talk , like them , and awful misunderstandings occur .
18 If you think that someone is trying to kill you , then you can die … because you are so afraid . ’
19 Check that nothing is getting hot .
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