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 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 .
5 That she is probably dealing with a barren original only emphasizes the problems of conventionality .
6 Her clutched hands are locked together showing that she is completely cut off in her emotions towards her husband .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 Nell dies in mid-winter , far from home ; but we all know that she is homeward bound and will see another and better spring :
10 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 .
11 For it can not be emphasized too much that the transsexual , even after conversion surgery , continually seeks reassurance that she is now accepted in her new sex role .
12 Susan : Mrs C is prejudiced herself because , I mean , she said to Karen that she is only getting bad because she hangs around with too many black people .
13 We can speculate that there is a psychological motive for this switch , with Adele using a change of code to indicate that she is only reporting these words and does not herself " stand behind " them or vouch for their validity .
14 A general characteristic of the feminine psyche is to seek confirmation and approval from others , and when these are not forthcoming , it is tempting for the woman to think that she is totally mistaken .
15 The fact that she is basically thinking in terms of the resurrected , cosmic Christ again tends to minimize any distinction which there might be between a woman and Christ in regard to sex .
16 Passive suffering , where the woman does n't move around , scream or swear , may mean that she is too focused on the pain , with no distractions to help her .
17 She is back in the house that she is always remembering and talking endlessly about , she has her precious Miss Cress .
18 What happens when the unconscious child in Joan Halton finds yet again that she is always losing out , this time to her husband , to his old car on which he dotes or to his mother who is still demanding so much of his time and attention , and that he appears to be forgetting that he is now married and has new first loyalties ?
19 In addition to this lump sum the annual half a million pound allowance will be paid to the Duchess by the Queen partly to ensure that she is never tempted to publish memoirs or talk about her failed marriage .
20 And while she might not have done herself a lot of favours over the last five years , it has to be concluded that she is better getting out while the going 's still good .
21 Helping an elderly woman to adjust and to find a new identity is never easy , but it can nearly always be achieved if she is shown that she is still loved and needed , by her family and friends .
22 His wife Val contributes a postscript in which she reveals , rather wanly , that she is still looking forward to her honeymoon , postponed because of a rugby match .
23 There the Welsh and English school timetables differ , so that when a morning of Medau was started at the town hall , English-speaking mothers came to the first session and Welsh-speaking ones to the second ; she was therefore obliged to give the former in English and the latter in Welsh — surely a triumphant example of good public relations and adaptability — though Wynne claims that she is still having a struggle to master Welsh .
24 Consider an economy in which there has been no inflation in the recent past ( so that none is currently expected ) and in which the unemployment percentage is at its natural level .
25 STAIN TOK I The awareness that one is helplessly living a role
26 Nor again does this failure to achieve total abstinence mean that one is inevitably heading for relapse or that it is necessarily a significant factor in those who do relapse .
27 One must talk to people physically present as if on the telephone , where frequent interjections and verbal responses must be given if only to assure the other party that one is still paying attention .
28 But it is only while attentive to someone 's suffering that one is spontaneously moved to help him .
29 Her brother , who will be seven years old next February , is such an extraordinary phenomenon that one is hard put to believe what one sees with one 's eyes and hears with one 's ears .
30 There are so many ways of physically producing attractive looking reports that one is almost spoilt for choice .
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