Example sentences of "that [pron] [is] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 At the least , the seller should agree to ensure that the business of the offeree group is carried on in the ordinary and usual course so as to maintain the same as a going concern ; and that nothing is voluntarily done or omitted which would result in a material inaccuracy in the warranties if they were repeated on , and as at , completion .
2 Rejoicing in the Lord is having the assurance that nothing is ever lost , that nothing is ultimately beyond him and his power .
3 The problem with being an astrologer is that everyone is always pestering you to find out what 's to happen in the next few days .
4 British Telecommunications Plc 's Customer Systems division — ‘ the largest UK systems house that no-one 's ever heard of ’ — has spent the past three years restructuring and now reckons it is set to take the world by storm .
5 These are the findings of a survey commissioned by British Telecommunications Plc 's systems integration division , Customer Systems — ‘ the largest UK systems house that no-one 's ever heard of ’ .
6 And I do n't fancy a house that somebody 's actually living in .
7 Cos I think he 's sort of realized now that nobody 's particularly impressed by him taking six grammes and twelve Es at once and going oh I took six grammes of and twelve Es at once and I was really fucked .
8 Tracey said that she 's just gon na be one of these the judge either likes you or he do n't like you .
9 It seems to me that she 's also saying , it 's also a plea , on Charlotte Bronte 's behalf to men , to want women who come to them developed , independent and
10 Katia says that she 's profoundly irritated by artists who insist that they go home , shut the door , and become ‘ normal ’ — ‘ What is this normal ?
11 I mean , it 's not that she 's probably gon na go after it but I , you know , who knows !
12 and she said my sister spends I mean , we 're now talking about nineteen seventy my sister spends twelve and six a week on things from for the house on the hire purchase if she ever truly runs into debt she 'll save part of the cost of the thing , you know and then she knows that she 's always going to have to put twelve and six a week aside but she does that and buys things for the house and you see if you 've got if you 've got that little bit of extra coming in it 's quite well it 's like my lodgers , Brenda if I could n't if I could n't get what I need from my lodgers well Neil pays me Neil 's house rent which thirty pound a week
13 Kat Bjelland rather teasingly answered that she 's never felt constrained by male domination — unwillingly .
14 Well I think , I 've got ta say that I think it might be ha it might be working better now with there but when not there and we go to and say can you tell me where X Y Z is , the response you 're gon na get is I 'm sorry I do n't know and the reason she wo n't know is that she 's never bothered to ask because she 's not talking so it 's okay while there but it wo n't be when she 's not because I 've had that , sorry I do n't know .
15 any problems , any problems the council for er two years , there are and I think that she 's actually provided a very significant contributions to the council .
16 But when you know that she 's safely tucked up in bed , you come out with a towel around you .
17 She says that she 's still affected by what happened .
18 To the extent that she 's now confusing the show business quality of performing well in public — at which she excels — with spirituality and saintliness .
19 The book sold so well locally that she 's now published it for sale countrywide ; available from WH Smith , Sherratt & Hughes and Waterstone 's bookshops or direct from Barbara Geere at 15 Stamford Drive , Bromley , Kent BR2 0XF ( 081–460 3646 ) , priced £2.30 ( inc p&p ) .
20 There is , of course , nothing wrong with trying to look your best , but for the born-again Weldon to refuse to see anyone unless she spent half the day in the hairdressers and then proclaim that she 's only doing it to further her career ( oh , please ) smacks of hypocrisy of the very highest order .
21 She thinks that she 's merely bringing him down to meet Jim and me . ’
22 ‘ The trouble is that she 's constantly demanding , day and night . ’
23 Find out who his business contacts and friends are and what she thinks of them , assuming , of course , that she 's ever met any of them .
24 I believe it is possible to propose an explanation for the intuitive feeling one gets that the -ing form would be somewhat inappropriate here : the author is describing a person who is groping for anything which will reassure her before she meets her angry father and the mere fact that she is able to perceive objects which are familiar to her — when she feels so disoriented that she can take nothing for granted — is what gives her the sense that she is neither shirking nor lying .
25 That she is probably dealing with a barren original only emphasizes the problems of conventionality .
26 Her clutched hands are locked together showing that she is completely cut off in her emotions towards her husband .
27 Although some poems , especially her essays , suggest that she is also looking toward a wider audience , in the vast majority of poems she speaks specifically to some woman she knows .
28 The procedure continues for weeks with the man unable to tell the girl that he still buys the ticket even though he no longer has a car , and the girl not wanting to hurt his feelings by revealing that she is just taking a short cut , walking through the car park on her way to W. H. Smith .
29 Nell dies in mid-winter , far from home ; but we all know that she is homeward bound and will see another and better spring :
30 I have been a fan of hers for a long time and it is wonderful to see that she is now achieving the status and success that she deserves .
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