Example sentences of "is [that] [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The only thing that can be said is that somebody has just snuffed out a very special person who was going to achieve an incredible amount in life . |
| 2 | The first is that nobody had really analysed and spelt out the interrelated series of planning and policy decisions which changing a school curriculum entails ; the essential links between the processes of curriculum planning and implementation ; the costs of change . |
| 3 | Well , we , we as you correctly say er with the whole industry had a , had a difficult August , I think the good news for Rover is that we fell less in volume terms than most of the competition , and indeed we marginally increased our market share . |
| 4 | I have forgotten the ins and outs of it : all I remember is that we argued as passionately as if the national survival was at stake . |
| 5 | The problem is that we lack virtually any faith . |
| 6 | ‘ The problem dealing with Iranian or Lebanese Shi'ite terrorists is that we know comparatively little about them . |
| 7 | ‘ What 's not fair , ’ Cranston interrupted , ‘ is that we know so little about last night . |
| 8 | Thus it is that we know as much as we do about the Orynthia and her voyages in the late 1830s . |
| 9 | Most significant news of all is that we 've just won the highly respected Dataquest Customer Satisfaction Poll against competition from the other best manufacturing names in the industry . |
| 10 | That 's right , our position is that we 've already erm adversely affected our environment if you like as and the balanced er approach respectively needs to meet housing requirements . |
| 11 | And the final point I wanted to make , although yes , we do welcome the special transitional grant second tranche of ten point eight million pounds , and it would be churlish not to , it is nevertheless a reduction on what the share of it was last year erm s of the national total so there is actually a reduction in the share that is getting this year , and alongside that , and of course hence the need for the recommendation in the budget , is that we 've actually lost very specifically one point eight five six million in the rollover grant from last year 's erm S T D tranche which we are specifically asking and very grateful to policy and resources for , hopefully , erm we 're asking and we 're hopeful they will underpin it and the Chairman is here and er er has nodded in that direction I think it 's fair to say . |
| 12 | I know , so I mean the thing is that we 've always said have n't ya as long as you can sort of get 'em down |
| 13 | ‘ The problem about us , ’ said Helen , ‘ is that we 've never felt the same way about money as most other people seem to . ’ |
| 14 | What I would like to think is is that we put together an annual report for our own purposes , and that goes out to a very limited distribution , as Trevor was suggesting . |
| 15 | yeah ten for the left and ninety for the right and the reason we talked about this and the way that 's involved in communication is that we said well if there 's a lot more power or a lot more contribution to the design of what we 're doing of a spatial nature and that is how the the audience 's brain work more powerfully in the spatial nature let's present what we have let's design it and then deliver it as close to a spatial nature as we can okay . |
| 16 | The problem is that we sow so little . |
| 17 | The real trouble is that we hand over £18 a week for every family in Britain — a total of £14,000 million — through the common agricultural policy . |
| 18 | doing it Roger is that we sit here and we say to our clients , ah but you really ought to be coming to us because we 're railway experts . |
| 19 | One of the drawbacks in presenting such a wide range of analytical exercises in quick succession is that we become so overwhelmed by the options that we end up by doing nothing . |
| 20 | What happens is that we begin well as Christians as we remember our past clearly . |
| 21 | ‘ I think the reason for that is that we spend about 45 minutes hitting balls on the range and 10 minutes putting before we tee off . |
| 22 | A fourth and perhaps the largest reason for attending to causation is that we do well to avoid the general conceptual uncertainty that must be part of an inquiry which leaves undefined any of its fundamental ideas which are open to definition . |
| 23 | The common factor is that we do so perceive them ! |
| 24 | ‘ But all I 'm concerned about at the moment is that we do enough against City to make sure we can go to Wembley at the weekend knowing we ca n't be overtaken again by Leeds on Saturday . ’ |
| 25 | because I think er Mr 's motion is erm , similar to er Rosie 's erm except that , I mean I think what we 're actually saying is that we do actually have a number of waste planning sort of policy panel , er and this is something look , needs to be looked at in , in some detail , erm and if we just do it via a sort of straight report to the Environment Committee and I mean look at the sort of agenda we 've got today er you know how much time can we spend on the details so I mean I hope the Liberal Democrats would accept that erm yes it will obviously come to the Environment Committee eventually er but that it actually should go to the Waste Planning to the Policy panel and other bits no doubt to the Waste Disposal sort of Sub Committee for this is the policy er committee of course . |
| 26 | Our particular strength is that we have progressively focused into areas of specialisation including pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals . |
| 27 | Colleagues , the important thing about the agreement so far , is that we have already destroyed the myth , perpetuated by the employers , that joint work across national boundaries in Euro- multinationals are inappropriate because of differences in trade union cultures , organization and systems of collective bargaining . |
| 28 | ‘ What is known , however , is that we have already sold more than 60 per cent of the public tickets and will be informing the lucky applicants by 1 April instead of 30 June as we originally intended . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ What is known , however , is that we have already sold more than 60 per cent of the public tickets and will be informing the lucky applicants by 1 April instead of 30 June as we originally intended . ’ |
| 30 | Our big problem is that we have over thirty million pounds ' worth of schemes actually in building at the moment , and of course you ca n't stop those without wasting a , an enormous amount of money , so we 're carrying on with those . |