Example sentences of "[is] that [pron] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh so and was it all sort of erm erm society do 's that you went to and cocktails and things like |
| 2 | ‘ It was my idea as much as Jeff 's that I went with him . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ You do n't realize , ’ says Myra , Michael 's wife , from the far end of the sofa , ‘ the fantastic thing is that we went through all this scene twenty minutes ago , in the car on the way here . |
| 4 | The worst thing by far , and what I can never get used to , is that we went around Europe with them for a month , living with them , sleeping in the same room , and apart from the odd bit of nagging , everything was fine . |
| 5 | My own view is that what happened in 1987 was far worse . |
| 6 | Sir Ranulph 's wife , Lady Virginia Fiennes , speaking from her remote Exmoor farm , said : ‘ All I know is that they asked to be picked up and the pick-up has come in and got them . |
| 7 | Well , Moscavisi 's argument , and I must say , I agree with him , is that they tended to be denigrated by both groups who might have taken the biggest interest in them . |
| 8 | Sharp 's explanation is that they travelled via an RNA copy . |
| 9 | All we can reasonably conclude is that they happened at the same time . |
| 10 | Fatima : I think the main difference between the Feminist Movement in Europe and Third World Countries is that they originated on the basis of different histories . |
| 11 | Final evidence that rhynchosaurs were herbivorous is that they occurred in large numbers ; in general we expect the herbivores to outnumber carnivores . |
| 12 | There is a local story that Queen Elizabeth spent a night here ; what is certain is that she passed on this road on her way from Burderop to Cirencester . |
| 13 | The debate as to whether this institutional framework exercised a determining ( ideological ) influence on film output has been an ongoing one , but the importance of Claire Johnston 's contribution to it in the mid seventies is that she argued for a reading of Hollywood entertainment films which made a space for ‘ collective fantasies of women 's desire ’ . |
| 14 | What is known about Jane is that she lived in a cellar in Wisbech , earning her living by reaping in the fields in the summer and spinning wool and flax in the winter . |
| 15 | What is medically certain is that she died of coronary thrombosis : there is no question of any foul play , except of course if the heart attack was brought on by the shock of finding someone in her room stealing the jewel she had come all the way from America to hand over to the Ashmolean Museum , or more specifically to Dr Theodore Kemp on behalf of the Museum . |
| 16 | The third element that the plaintiff must prove in order to raise a constructive trust in a case of proprietary estoppel is that she acted to her detriment … |
| 17 | I was too far away to observe what colour Enid Starkie 's eyes were ; all I remember of her is that she dressed like a matelot , walked like a scrum-half , and had an atrocious French accent . |
| 18 | One question , and that is that I noticed on page three , er , you 've got your revised estimate with effect in ninety four , five , you 've got nothing . |
| 19 | He told TODAY soon after the tragedy : ‘ My only crime is that I fell in love with another girl . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ The important thing is that I got in a couple of block tackles , which was significant . |
| 21 | Could you now tell us what it is that you knew about Mr ? |
| 22 | ‘ What I mean , my girl , is that you swanned in here , full of self-righteous anger because a little carpenter had deigned to clutter your space without first consulting you , and quite frankly I was sick to my back teeth with what I saw . ’ |
| 23 | But consider now a misgiving voiced by Linda Woodbridge and shared by many others : ‘ To me the one unsatisfying feature of the otherwise stimulating transvestite movement is that it had to be transvestite : Renaissance women so tar accepted the masculine rules of the game that they felt they had to look masculine to be ‘ free'' ’ ( Women and the English Renaissance , 145 ) . |
| 24 | The reason , I believe , is that it had in mind the defeat inflicted on the previous Conservative government over the Jonathan Aitken trial to do with Biafra . |
| 25 | As Cumings has pointed out , the importance of this paper is that it foreshadowed with considerable accuracy the sequence of events over the next three years , culminating in the formal establishment of the Republic of Korea in 1948 . |
| 26 | One further point that is often made to explain the nature of the New Criticism is that it developed outside the ambit of the main university graduate schools , in small colleges mainly in the South . |
| 27 | ( One theory is that it arose from scribes ' attempts to make the word more legible . |
| 28 | One limitation of the book is that it related to UK names only . |
| 29 | Of the many explanations for the collapse in the ninth century after such intensive cultivation without metals for 6–16 centuries , the most plausible is that it resulted from sustained failures of maize due to a leafhopper-borne virus , maize mosaic virus , which may have originated in northern South America at roughly the same time as maize was brought to the Caribbean by the Arawak about the time of Christ . |
| 30 | Everybody has read about out of body experiences and I do n't know if that is what it was , but I was not frightened by the person who was looking at me and the image that I had and that I still have in my mind is that it looked like me |