Example sentences of "is that [pron] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ All I can say though is that whatever happens it will be my decision , ’ she said , revealing the determination and single-mindedness that was later to be turned against her . |
| 2 | The only thing I 'm bent out of shape about is that nobody knows it 's a different pickup ; everyone thinks it 's a regular Trembucker ! |
| 3 | I think , I think yes , I think the consensus is that we hold it on Friday the ninth erm and we 're going to apply , the three full time officers will apply for those in their organization that they want to attend , apply for paid release . |
| 4 | I think there 's a third fact that you touched on earlier that I think it 's just worth mentioning and that is that we know it 's also a genetic pre-disposition to anorexia nervosa , in other words , we know that in certain families it is a disorder that will run from one generation to another . |
| 5 | The terrible thing about the modern attitude to death is that we pass it on to our children . |
| 6 | And the reason for that is that we ask you to do three things when you get in front of the advertiser having got his commitment . |
| 7 | I mean I one of the things that I 've always sort of had in mind is that we put it down in the reception area . |
| 8 | Yes , I mean my view is that we put it out for members we see what the uptake is and then we can always look at the list and ring certain other people |
| 9 | I mean , maybe what I 'm hearing from the committee is that we take it back and look at the criteria and the ground rules . |
| 10 | The one thing about advertising er Patrick is that we tell them everything on the phone . |
| 11 | I was just having a word with one of your colleagues here trying to take up what Mr 's point was and I think we 've come up maybe with a compromise , is that we call him the County Public Protection Officer . |
| 12 | But of course profit 's one thing , and income 's another thing , and I think the problem with most er forms of income type investment is that we spend it , it 's not a problem it 's just , it just happens . |
| 13 | Having learnt to cope happily on our own , the likelihood is that we find we are not alone after all . |
| 14 | The short answer is that we assert it on the basis of two things , an independent nomic conditional , and ( C ) a belief about certain conditions , which is a belief that the antecedent of the independent conditional is in a certain part true . |
| 15 | For the trouble with the great and the good is that we expect them to be on duty the whole time . |
| 16 | ‘ The Arsenal way of doing things , though , is that we do them in private — not in public . |
| 17 | We may do it badly , but the beauty is that we do it at all . |
| 18 | My recommendation is that we scrap them for the ten year decade of evangelism as a trial period and then think again in AD 2000 ! |
| 19 | The irony is that what gave me and other lesbians the |
| 20 | ‘ The only problem is that they taught me to swear like a trooper . ’ |
| 21 | The importance of these is that they make you think and help you recognise what it is that ‘ makes you tick ’ . |
| 22 | The proof of the pudding is in the eating , and the proof of people skills is that they make it as likely as possible that we achieve our objectives with people . |
| 23 | The only problem with the guides is that they tell you little of the quality of the goods in the shop . |
| 24 | To the extent that Europeans know of this Oxbridge dominance , my experience is that they regard it with some satisfaction ( they have generally heard of Oxford and Cambridge ) , but that their satisfaction changes to complacency when they reflect upon what they believe to be the uniquely class-ridden structure of English society . |
| 25 | The answer is that they told us that they tried this several times and it did not work . |
| 26 | The danger is that they stop you looking . |
| 27 | The most likely explanation is that they saw it as a way to keep the Catholic-educated Mary out of Scotland , while maintaining their formal loyalty to her , thereby maximizing their opportunity to advance the Protestant cause while minimizing the need to clash directly with their sovereign ; there was , after all , no sign that Mary was particularly interested in the internal affairs of her kingdom , and although it was a gamble , and a risky one , leaving her to continue to enjoy life in France appeared to be the best chance they had . |
| 28 | The thing is Danny is that they said they 'd only bought the thing in July . |
| 29 | Perhaps the reason for the comic success of such characters is that they help us to recognise the prejudice which exists in all of us at so many different levels about so many different things . |
| 30 | And if some of the material in the book seems occasionally to verge on the utopian , it is worth reminding ourselves that , as Jan Montefiore says in Feminism and Poetry , ‘ the value of utopias is that they enable us to imagine possibilities of difference for the brute contingent world ’ . |