Example sentences of "is that he [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The miracle is that he lived so long . |
| 2 | What is certain is that he quoted approvingly words he attributed to Nehru : ‘ Even if the Indian people do not agree with Nazism and Fascism , even if the Indian people recognise the evil of Nazism and Fascism … they will surely part company with the British . |
| 3 | Erm , well what your mum and dad said to me is that he gets very worried , het up , really tensed about doing things , that 's going , you know , things that are gon na happen , like just driving down to a different place , er and he get 's himse himself so het up , so worried , he makes himself ill , I think that 's what 's happened |
| 4 | I say to the hon. Member for Dagenham what the hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland ( Mr. Wallace ) said about his speech , which is that he made very heavy weather . |
| 5 | One possibility is that he had already begun to campaign in western Saxon territory and that additional troops joined him from his supporters there . |
| 6 | The remarkable thing about it all is that he had already caused significant bad debts when his Pergamon Press failed in the seventies . |
| 7 | What history will say of his tenure of office is that he had very difficult decisions to make in awkward circumstances and while England 's international team suffered an unimaginable decline most of the 17 first-class counties , his prime concern , flourished more than might have been expected . |
| 8 | Thomas May 's earlier assumption would have been a perfectly natural one had he been dealing with a museum collection , but here at Templebrough , the sherds came from his own excavation , and the only conclusion to be drawn is that he had very little conception of the significance of stratified deposits . |
| 9 | Taken to its logical conclusion ( and the advantage of Baudrillard is that he does just this ) , this view entails a denial of all signification . |
| 10 | Even though the new series looks good ( with one of its highlights promising to be the small-screen debut of Paul Whitehead ) and he has at least three other projects on the go , Harry Enfield still has n't figured out what it is that he does exactly . |
| 11 | One reason why Mr Severin 's books are usually impressive is that he spends so much time discussing the historical evidence for his theories . |
| 12 | I do n't intend to start another round of Wilko criticism , but I think much of his problem is that he uses extremely vague formulations and do n't tell anything about his thoughts and considerations . |
| 13 | And what you are telling me is that he knew very well Aldhelm was to come here that night . |
| 14 | The significance of Simmel 's work is that he breaks away from one of the most predominant tendencies in the grounding of Hegel in social analysis : that is , the suggestion that we can separate off the positive side of sublation from the negative side of externalization as rupture . |
| 15 | As for Williams , who had an English father , it would be easy to explain away his hostility to England ; but the sorrier likelihood is that he saw quite justly the baleful mixture of timidity and arrogance which characterized literary London in his lifetime . |
| 16 | But what 's aggrieved me is that he 's just waltzed off with it and not |
| 17 | What he fails to mention is that he 's just been fined by his fun loving Durham County Cricket Club colleagues for turning up unshaven . |
| 18 | And one of his main traits is that he 's never been slow to admit he 's made a mistake in the transfer market . |
| 19 | The speaker must monitor what it is that he has just said , and determine whether it matches his intentions , while he is uttering his current phrase and monitoring that , and simultaneously planning his next utterance and fitting that into the overall pattern of what he wants to say and monitoring , moreover , not only his own performance but its reception by his hearer . |
| 20 | One reason why Mr Smith is regarded as the front-runner is that he has already secured the support of key trade union leaders , including John Edmonds of the GMB general workers ' union and Gavin Laird of the engineers . |
| 21 | The one certainty is that he has consistently sought to secure his own position , mostly by presenting himself as a sensible centrist between the extremes to his right and left . |
| 22 | ‘ The great thing about Joe Boyd , ’ says Andy Kershaw , whose Radio 1 show provides one of the rare outlets for the African percussionists and Bulgarian tractor mechanics ' choral ensembles currently recording for Hannibal , ‘ is that he has consistently put his artistic principles before his commercial instincts . |
| 23 | His weakness is that he has only four or five votes on the committee and his intermittent appearances and lack of involvement in either the Headingley School or the Bradford Academy will count against him , all past prejudices apart . |
| 24 | Another point Chris would like to stress is that he has only tested his herbal remedies on tropical community fish ( which are mainly acid-loving ) and pondfish — he does n't know how more specialised hard water fish , such as Mbuna , which come from areas with virtually no plants , would react . |
| 25 | ‘ The strange thing is that he has always been the soundest of horses and never taken a lame step in his life . |
| 26 | ‘ Yuri 's problem is that he has very fine hair , ’ said Anthony , carefully snipping feathery layers into the rather worried-looking star 's tresses . |