Example sentences of "[is] that [noun] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The only thing that is certain is that Albie died in debt .
2 And with Everton and Chelsea also winning , the only disappointment is that Celtic lost to Rangers .
3 His only source of superiority is that Frye fagged for him at school .
4 There was one who told his wife , ‘ The reason I 'm late is that Harry died at the third hole , so we had to go all the way round the other fifteen holes on the course , dragging Harry . ’
5 The only conclusion is that Brampton died like Vechey .
6 The problem is that Taurus tried to be too nice to everyone and did n't tread too hard on the banks ’ toes . ’
7 Once both yards are in the private sector , the danger for Rosyth is that Devonport bolstered by its secure base-load of Trident contracts , will be able to undercut the Scottish yard for surface work too .
8 A second element in this theory is that Jesus entered into every aspect of human life and sanctifies it with his presence and love .
9 Apart from that , it 's only used in the beginnings of words , and the , the one clear rule is that s followed by a t is printed in this way .
10 The point is that Morgenthau needed to be able to define the terms ‘ objectively ’ ; otherwise there was no way in which the power-politics model could be applied .
11 he used an illustration of the pig , you know you can polish the pig up , you can clean it , you can scrub it , you can oh de cologne it , you can do all sorts of things with it , you can tie a nice pink ribbon around it and you can put it in a palace , but it 's still a pig and it lives like a pig and you can cl and no matter how clean you 've made it , it 'll soon find some dirt to wallow in and the ribbon might make it look nice in the show ground but it does n't make any difference to its nature and so it is with us and so Jesus did n't start on the outside , but he starts at the inside he deals with the route of the problem , in One Corinthians chapter fifteen and in verse three it says for I deliver to you as a first importance , this is the basic thing , he says to them this was the first thing that I said to you because it was the most important that Christ died for our sins , according to the scripture , what ever else Christ gives to us , what ever else he does for us , what ever else the gospel produces , the basic , the most important , the fundamental thing is that Christ died for our sins .
12 If that supportive evidence is forthcoming then the implication is that vertebrates existed in the Late Cambrian , 510 million years ago , and some 40 million years before the appearance of vertebrate armour .
13 What matters is that Polybius found in Rome people who would not differ from educated Greeks in their interests , ideas and emotional reactions .
14 ‘ The thing is that killing got to be a habit with Mario ’ , adds his friend Juan .
15 This is an , a product of evolution , admittedly Freud uses a Lamarckian scenario to explain how it got there , but the fact is that Freud insisted on it .
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