Example sentences of "about it is that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only really naff thing about it is that they serve John Smith 's bitter , but their Guinness was great , so no probs . |
| 2 | What 's different about it is that we possess , the G M B London Region , possess sworn statements from managers and ex Chief Officers that conclusively demonstrate that what the trade union has been saying all along , what the G M B's been saying all along , about victimization , financial mismanagement and corruption , have in ta in fact taken place . |
| 3 | And the bit about it is that there may well be other small organisations that might , erm be better , erm I mean , have , might benefit people more in Oxford city , or in Oxfordshire , are n't getting in because |
| 4 | ‘ What 's interesting about it is that I have both worlds , because I play with Phil Collins ’ band as well as Genesis , and with Phil I do all the records too . |
| 5 | And it it it 's called the fog index but the thing that 's interesting about it is that I 've got , I 've got some interesting examples of fog indexes erm and you 'll get people like Churchill who sometimes made speeches and their fog index is quite small you 're going to use this you know example and they might have a fog , fog index that 's fine and what Anne and I are talking about with say something like the Telegraph or the Times or whatever , might have a fog index that people but this is because Churchill was very clear , very concise and going back to the original point about , or some of the original points about this , and I was mak raising these issues earlier this evening one of the great sadnesses that I have is that , is that when I first went into journalism the tabloids as we call them were incredibly well written beautifully styled , well researched and okay they might have been punchier and shorter and everything else , compared to the turning up the er the , the Times or whatever , but they were well written and you might have had , if you can put the fog index test , test on it you might have had a fog index of say six or seven compared to eleven on the Telegraph story , but it was still full of clarity like to read . |
| 6 | It is an imaginative use of the word , but what is significant about it is that it reappears in that sense in only one other place in the Old Testament , in the passage immediately preceding God 's appearance on Sinai . |
| 7 | Whatever it 's called , though , one of the most gloomy facts about it is that it now spends more on weapons than on health and education put together |
| 8 | For our purposes , what matters about it is that it is an all-or-none signal , with an amplitude that does not attenuate as it travels along the axon . |
| 9 | The only interesting thing about it is that it happened at all . |
| 10 | And what 's nice about it is that it tracks better than most . |
| 11 | It is often not difficult to determine that relationship , but the point about it is that it is not but must be figured out by every reader . |
| 12 | One of the other points about it is that it will erm er , in in the minds of the parents the they will see this one , two , three , four , five , six , seven , eight , nine , ten er being used , poor , satisfactory , excellent and it will get them into the idea of what these levels |
| 13 | About the only thing you would n't be able to say about it is that it ‘ washes whiter ’ . |
| 14 | The thing about it is that it is not death of the body that is important to us , it 's the soul . |
| 15 | Erm er it 's er it 's obviously annoying for me personally , er but the worst thing about it is that it can be done at the drop of a hat , you say , I want information on X. and they say , Yes we can provide . |
| 16 | The only good thing about it is that it lasts for six months , then immunity is acquired . ’ |
| 17 | But of course the thing about it is that it works for any shape . |
| 18 | erm This is quite an interesting cartoon , and really has no connection with either St Aldate 's or Oxford , erm but it was actually published in 1642 , and it shows the two sides , the Roundheads and the Cavaliers , and what I think is interesting about it is that it does seem to be quite objective , it does n't seem to be particularly getting at one side or the other , which is very rare for the kind of erm cartoons that were later issued during the war . |
| 19 | The powder lip colour lasts for ages and the top gloss seals the colour , but the great thing about it is that you can use different combinations for different effects . |
| 20 | I climbed it once and it 's pleasant enough , but the point about it is that you can see if from all the 4,000 metre peaks ; it 's always there , distinctively , on the horizon . ’ |
| 21 | What he 's , I bet what he does n't like about it is that you 're not running back to him saying look Simon come back to me I need you and it |
| 22 | What is striking about it is that he is the first Anglo-Saxon king known to have abdicated to go to Rome and that he went to Rome not as a baptized Christian but to seek baptism . |
| 23 | ‘ One of the odd things about it is that he was wearing brand-new clothes , ’ he added . |