Example sentences of "is [adv] that [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 The point is rather that we now have a strong data base from which to operate , and that the technical means are now available which would reveal precisely what our signals do mean ; perhaps to show that there are monsters , perhaps to find , at least beyond reasonable doubt , that their existence is too unlikely to warrant further study .
2 The situation is not that we always have confirmed hypotheses , and sometimes or often lack an enumeration of the elements of a causal circumstance .
3 So Grice 's point is not that we always adhere to these maxims on a superficial level but rather that , wherever possible , people will interpret what we say as conforming to the maxims on at least some level .
4 What makes these system knowledge-based is not that it somehow takes knowledge to write them , nor that they behave as if they had knowledge , but rather that their architectures include explicit knowledge bases .
5 The strength of a social institutional ideal , however , is not that it always attains its stated objectives , but that it establishes itself as the desirable norm .
6 The reason is not that I now disagree with the stance I took ten years ago , but that in this past decade my own understanding of the work of the Holy Spirit in the individual and in the Church has greatly developed , and the whole charismatic or renewal movement , then comparatively young , has matured enormously within the life of the Church at large .
7 It is not that she no longer feels for her children .
8 Those making the decisions have become in a precise sense semi-literate : they can read and write , it is just that they seldom do .
9 It is just that he no longer thinks that filling every cavity is one of them .
10 ‘ And it is there that you also are staying ? ’
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