Example sentences of "[is] [that] i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | If I left a table in Fif 's that I 'd just acquired , I might attract attention . |
2 | What I mean is that I 've finally been forced to admit that the large-animal side of veterinary practice is still controlled by men . |
3 | Part of the problem is that I 've already been through all this pregnancy stuff with Wife Number One . |
4 | The upshot of this is that I 've now become a resident , which makes a weekly tour of junk and antique shops even more vital . |
5 | It can be a very hard game sometimes , but the most important thing for me is that I 've now got my mind right . |
6 | The result of this strategy is that I 've never missed a plane in twenty-eight years of international travel — except once . |
7 | Yes , but the difference is that I 've never seen those houses but I have , I can see those . |
8 | For what is being suggested is that I knew today and not yesterday , despite the fact that there was no difference between the two days that I could tell at the time . |
9 | What , what you 're saying is that I mean broadly this is , is quite an incentive based system , at least on the face of it |
10 | The fact is that I had already begun to give serious consideration to the possibility of doing away with Dennis Parsons . |
11 | The fact is that I had never seen it , or known what I was seeing , until that day : … |
12 | ‘ The thing I remember about my first visit is that I had never sung so much before . |
13 | ‘ The truth is that I had never even met him . ’ |
14 | The first is that I sit here , hit this bottle of Old Bedwetter and fall into flashbacks of lost loves and hard times past . ’ |
15 | ‘ But all that means is that I know damn well what not to do . |
16 | What matters is that I need never question that there is a course which is objectively the best for me , and that when most aware I am nearest to it . |
17 | Now my view is that I think rather like your comment on Christian doing concerts , Scottish Amicable er Standard Life Scottish Hydro , Scottish Power , Scottish Nuclear I do n't necessarily see it as making influence to make a decision to make a purchase or to recommend a purchase to the third party in another part of Scotland |
18 | ‘ I suppose the unusual thing about the allotment is that I grow just about everything , ’ he said . |
19 | The physical and mental experience had made us healthier people and proof of the excitement and joy of the trip is that I have now become one of the greatest bores on mountain biking in the Swedish Arctic . |
20 | Right , well I 've been waiting since er what is it twelve o'clock this morning , what on earth this question can be and I certainly did n't er come up with this possible , erm all I can say is that I have always got on extremely well with Tony and . |
21 | ‘ THE most disheartening thing is that I have always had a really strong idea about what I want the group to be and I 'm not very good at relating to people who think that their version of what my group should be is more important than mine , ’ complains Stuart Adamson , singer/guitarist with Big Country . |
22 | One thing I can say of him with total confidence is that I have never met a man less interested in money . |
23 | ‘ I 'm bowling a bit quicker , but they main difference is that I feel more confident and settled this time , ’ he explained . |