Example sentences of "[is] [adv] that [pron] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Mr Bliss is right that we have to assume that the abductors are politically motivated terrorists — ‘ ' |
| 2 | My hon. Friend is right that we have the most generous system in the developed world for supporting students . |
| 3 | It 's only that I have n't been able to get to the bank , being ill and all that , and I have n't got any money for the rent . |
| 4 | The complainant need not show he was aggrieved on the date mentioned in the summons , it is enough that he had been aggrieved earlier , otherwise as Darling , J. pointed out in Hilton v Hopwood it would be virtually impossible for an individual to bring an action under s.99 . |
| 5 | What is incontrovertible is only that I had it , not that it was caused by anything ‘ out there ’ beyond my experience . |
| 6 | ‘ It is only that I have never been proposed to so abruptly , so boldly before . ’ |
| 7 | He can measure every clause of what the income is , against what the expenditure is so that we have some control to ensure that the church life grows and we do n't stumble . |
| 8 | the purpose of updating is so that you have current information , yes |
| 9 | It 's enough that you have to pay for the licence , which is erm , what is it eighty pounds |
| 10 | A second reason is perhaps that we have not obtained many of the much-trumpeted benefits that we were promised from the original Common Market . |
| 11 | The wonder is perhaps that he has time to do any writing and research at all after running two companies — Pluto Press ( Australia ) and PR agency Social Change Media — and with partner Stephanie Dowrick , also a writer , bringing up two children . |
| 12 | Our problem is not that we have the wrong answers to particular doubts but that we do not have the right attitude to doubt in general . |
| 13 | The reason for setting out these reservations at such length is not that we have any doubts about the value to consumers of credit cost information . |
| 14 | Presumably some patrol ship on the high seas might log messages in this way , but it is clear that , as humans , our experience of utterances is not that we have recorded in memory a list of utterances to which are attached standard tags specifying time and place in these terms . |
| 15 | It is not that you have to be ‘ good ’ , just stop believing you are ‘ bad ’ . |
| 16 | When you have finished the novel it is not that you have really finished it , but that you have decided to do no more work on it . |
| 17 | ‘ It is not that he had abandoned or qualified his commitment to the principle of non-violence ’ . |
| 18 | It is not that it has a design stamped on it , since once again it is not difficult to find other examples of metalwork decorated in a similar way . |
| 19 | THE extraordinary thing about Laura Ashley is not that it has been dragged back from the financial brink ; it is that it was ever pushed there in the first place . |
| 20 | What is theoretically and politically interesting and puzzling is not that it has been defended by the powerful and the better-off sections of the community but that it has been so widely accepted by those who suffer as a result of its continuance . |
| 21 | In the case of Charles the Bald , though , given the rich documentation , and the giants ' spadework , the surprising thing ( to invert Dr Johnson on women preachers ) is not that it 's been done badly , but that — with two partial exceptions — it has not been done at all . |
| 22 | It is not that I have no reason to submit to the moral law and can do as I please ; I am left with no reason even to do as I please . |
| 23 | ‘ It is not that I have n't got time for girls . |
| 24 | It is not that I have forgotten what other people are like . |
| 25 | It is just that they have both been at it too often recently . |
| 26 | ‘ It is n't to say The Wedding Present just treat it like a job , it is just that they have natural courtesy and manners . |
| 27 | It is just that they have no other choice . |
| 28 | Once again these hidden costs have been part of the investment-need right from the beginning — it is just that they have not been looked at closely enough . |
| 29 | ‘ I suppose it is just that I have led a more open life than you . |
| 30 | Blanche : I guess it is just that I have — old-fashioned ideals ! |