Example sentences of "is [that] [pron] [is] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So one is forced to conclude that the reason hundreds of dismayed tourists and walkers are stranded on stations up and down the length of the West Highland line at the height of the season , unable to squeeze into an already packed ‘ Sprinter ’ , if it arrives at all , is that somebody is doing this on purpose . |
| 2 | One consequence of this immobility is that everyone is surrounded by people very like himself , most of whom he has always known . |
| 3 | My complaint about reviews so far is that everyone is reviewing the man Larkin and not the biography of him . |
| 4 | What must be remembered though is that whatever is asked and answered in a survey has to be inputted in some way and once it has been processed the output has to be read by someone . |
| 5 | and the best thing is that nobody 's doing it , everybody 's doing cabaret spots along the line jokes and stuff like that , but nobody 's not doing cabaret spots with trumpets |
| 6 | Part of the problem that we got back to when we looked over the issues is that what 's happening in the private sector is not just that it 's growing but that it 's very much in an unplanned fashion . |
| 7 | The general maxim of the law is that what is annexed to the land becomes part of the land . |
| 8 | The trouble is that what is measured differs from medium to medium , and , therefore , cost measurements differ almost completely between , say , TV and posters in what they are costs of . |
| 9 | The point at issue is that what is happening is not only a tragedy of today but a portent of tomorrow . |
| 10 | The rationalization is that everything is done in the interests of the patient , but it is also designed to protect professionals from feelings that are , for them , genuinely intolerable . |
| 11 | The main thing is that everything is going to be all right ! ’ |
| 12 | Its particular advantage is that everything is contained into a smaller central area . |
| 13 | The significance of fantasizing about a new house or a new flat is that one is visualizing a change in one 's work environment . |
| 14 | ‘ You see , one of the advantages of being dead is that one is released as it were from the bonds of time and therefore I can see everything that has happened or will happen , all at the same time except that of course I now know that Time does not , for all practical purposes , exist . ’ |
| 15 | Another difference between the characterization of Alison and that of the three men is that she is seen totally from the outside — one sees her appearance in her face and her clothes ; we see what actions she does . |
| 16 | Chrissie is relatively young and inexperienced , and while she may be a hardened liar and criminal , we feel the balance of the probabilities is that she is telling the truth . |
| 17 | The gossip is that she is thinking of resigning from the practice and going back to her home town . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , former Pink Floyd member Roger Waters has attacked Madonna in the most recent issue of Details magazine : ‘ What 's extraordinary about Madonna is that she 's made all these rotten records , and she 's this awful , ugly , dull person who — by virtue of the fact that she 's completely fearless and shameless and blatant and cheap and bad — has become successful , ’ he says . |
| 19 | My only sorrow is that she 's turned out so fair . |
| 20 | Yes I am the outcome of it all is that she 's waiting on the wall , getting piles and I 'm going to go down the shop with her . |
| 21 | and they confirm that Dreadnought has been officially classed as a wreck , and what 's worse , I 'm afraid , is that she 's lying near enough to the shipping channels for them , to quote their letter , to exercise their statutory powers and remove her by means of salvage craft . " |
| 22 | ‘ All I worry about is that she 's going to come back . ’ |
| 23 | His story is that she 's walked out on him , but there are one or two suspicious circumstances . |
| 24 | Very obviously when this town was designed and laid out and nobody foresaw the growth of the private motor car , er today private motor car is accepted , but in a town which was built perhaps the idea that one in twenty would own a motor car and we 're now faced with the probably one in three have a motor car , we 're now faced with a problem which can only detract from life in the town , also the fact that huge lorries are passing through what were envisaged as quiet residential neighbourhoods with a consequent breaking of curbs and of paving stones where the lorries are compelled to mount the pavings in order to get round parked cars and things of that nature it detracts from the life in Harlow I do , I think a considerable extent , erm , the other factor is that there 's become a lack of pride in the town by the people who live in it , this is seen from the amount of rubbish , and refuse that is dropped from the minor vandalism that goes on the graffiti , er particularly in underpasses where people are walking to the town centre and that , those are the things where the town has lost its way , when we first came here you never saw bits of paper and packages from sweets and cigarettes and things , perhaps maybe because the package industry has developed over the years and that er whereas whenever we had responsibility for taking a small child out , if it had sweets it was encouraged to put the wrappings in its pocket until it got home , now of course it 's encouraged to drop it just where it wants to and er this not only applies to children , some of the worst culprits are the adults who leave the , leave the public houses with a can of beer to drink on the way home and drop it just when they 've finished the last drop of beer or the fish and chip paper 's just dropped . |
| 25 | Studies in which rats have been fed ethanol have suggested that there is reduced ability of hepatocytes to bind to laminin , type I collagen , and fibronectin ; a possible explanation for which is that there is reduced expression or activation of specific receptors for these matrix components . |
| 26 | The probable significance of all this is that it is mistaken to attempt to generalize about employers ' attitudes to young workers . |
| 27 | The government 's official line is that it is aiming for an agreement with East Germany on monetary matters by the end of next month ; it does not deny reports that D-Day for GEMU could be July 1st . |
| 28 | What is extraordinary is that it is taking off in England — the land of the Stiff Upper Lip , where the primary emotion often seems to be fear of embarrassment . |
| 29 | The downside of the book is that it is written in a terribly deadpan style : ‘ At forty-five Picasso had become a successful man . |
| 30 | One view of the overall employment implications of new technology is that it is bringing about the collapse of work . |