Example sentences of "[is] that [pron] [be] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Well it 's hard to know where to stop , really erm I mean the , the difficulty of concentrating on one area of the country , is that we 're of course I think there must be very great differences in different areas of the country .
2 Yet another principle is that we are to be ‘ subject to one another out of reverence to Christ ’ ( Eph. 5.21 ) and this applies to each of us — men as well as women — whatever our particular calling in the Church may be .
3 As for what may be called , although not very properly , the conflict with our ordinary ways of speaking , in which events , facts , and things are mentioned as causes or conditions , and also other items ( Ayer , 1972 , p. 133 ) , the principal explanation is that we are in accord with the rooted practice of taking the whole for the part .
4 ‘ All I hope for then is that we are in a position to be challenging . ’
5 But one of the things , obvious at first , that , one of the first things about any kind of journalism apart from apart from , in your specialist journals and so on , is that they 're about newspapers are about people , so obviously get the people in and there 's a , a very good very good you 've got the person , you 've got you 've got you 've got someone in up at the top and saying something .
6 Whereas adolescents ' problem is that they 're between homes , they do n't have that shell , so they 're free but also vulnerable .
7 The situation that , that a lot of people find themselves in nowadays , now er council housing is no longer available to an awful lot of people , is that they 're at the mercy of private landlords , and in order to have any kind of home they have to go along this sort of conditions and rent levels laid down by private landlords .
8 The reason for that is that they 're in a very good position in the market now , they , they can negotiate very good deals on houses they 're buying , there 's a very good choice of properties available , people by the mid nineteen nineties will look back on nineteen ninety as probably the time to have bought , when house prices were at their cheapest .
9 The link between these operas is that they are about men who had changed the world through the power of ideas .
10 When the arrears are payable , the presumption is that they are to be paid provided there are surplus assets available , whether or not these represent accumulated profits which might have been distributed by way of dividend , but that they are payable only to the date of the commencement of the winding up .
11 For most of his career Tolkien was a most extreme example of a man with this second urge strongly developed : he was fascinated by names , to give only one example , part of whose nature is that they are for one thing and one thing alone , very hard to reduce to system !
12 The history of pet names is a long one , there appearing to be evidence confirming their existence before the Conquest , but in those instances where pet names survive as surnames the appearance is that they are of post-Conquest foundation , and some are difficult to identify .
13 They look at everything from the point of view of the provider and their only discernible policy is that they are against privatization .
14 ‘ The main reason for a lot is that they are in trouble because of higher mortgage rates . ’
15 Part of the fantasy about adolescent heroes is that they are in perfect command of their situation and can control the events and people around them .
16 The only distinguishing feature of two different attributes is that they are in different positions , or something like that , which has no bearing on their possible values .
17 ‘ What angers me is that they were on a government controlled game reserve and planned it carefully .
18 Critical to an understanding of Jacques le Romain 's music and pedagogical writings is that they were in essence an extension of the artistic milieu of his father 's generation .
19 My guess is that they were from some cabaret or other .
20 ‘ A lover is illicit — the whole point of being married , it seems to me , is that everything is above board and clean ’
21 A lover is illicit — the whole point of being married , it seems to me , is that everything is above board and clean . ’
22 ‘ All I can tell you at the moment is that she is on the danger list .
23 The other reason is that there are at least some rules for judging advertisements , but most of these are based firmly in the objectives which the ads are trying to achieve : if we do not know what the objectives are , any judgement we may make is without a real foundation .
24 My view is that there are at least five issues of importance in the design of antitrust policies towards co-operative R&D ventures which arise from comparing these two different initiatives .
25 The surprise is that there are in fact no significant differences between any of the other three variables when this comparison is made .
26 And the general run of hosiery is that there is of course that there 's a lot more females than males but in our side pretty equal .
27 B : Well , the milkman has come All that we can reasonably expect a semantic theory to tell us about this minimal exchange is that there is at least one reading that we might paraphrase as follows : ( 2 ) A : Do you have the ability to tell me the time ?
28 A problem with this point of view is that there is in fact no evidence of descent groups having ever existed without these two levels and it seems difficult to treat all documented cases as transitions from a stage for which there is no evidence .
29 The first is that there is in the developed world a new culture of environmental awareness .
30 A third is that there is among scientists a kind of general scepticism of talk of causation , and in particular a suspicion of general conceptions of it used by philosophers .
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