Example sentences of "is [pers pn] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't have to talk about an just a good chat you know just I do n't want to I do n't want to talk about good people or all about that I do n't want to talk about that I want to talk I want to talk to that person out there who will feel now that it is them that I am I am appealing to I am appealing I now . |
| 2 | It is them that I am appealing to somebody because of the erm the the th thought transference that I am using is feeling now compelled to pick up the phone O nine O four six four one six four one . |
| 3 | Well do you know , when I met , I , I 'm meeting old chaps through this very excellent marriage agency , I 've never expected any thing like it , they are marvellous , and the sent me a nice old lad , but I knew I was onto a looser when he said , of course I go to my daughter-in-law every Saturday for lunch , she absolutely insists because she says , she wants to make sure that I 'm eating properly , now this is a very healthy old man with a very good income who could afford to buy any food he wants and the fact of the matter is his that he 's son is probably not , he does n't want to upset his old dad , and it 's handy to have him to come on Saturday for lunch and be done with it as it were , but I thought surely Bernard your own sense would tell you that nobody want 's their old father and father-in-law every Saturday of their life , for lunch oh . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , you mean how is it that they can afford the pukka style if he is n't successful ? ’ |
| 5 | Why is it that they bestow their ardour upon the well-adjusted , wholesome architects of pop 's fatal new maturity ? |
| 6 | ‘ What is it that they 're frightened of , whoever they are — whether they are Labour , Conservative , Liberal , ’ Connery asks , in his dangerous knowing voice . |
| 7 | Is it that they lack the processing space to monitor the input effectively ? |
| 8 | Given the long-standing behavioural problems that the pupils attending these sites have set the teaching staff in schools , how is it that they can be brought together in a seemingly improbable admixture with the results , orderly and controlled , as described above ? |
| 9 | Is it that they will not be bothered by maximum working hours or minimum wages , or is it just that the trade union movement in this country has been crippled by repressive legislation over the past 12 years ? |
| 10 | Is it that they do not exert themselves enough ( we know that the English work as quickly as they work well ) ? |
| 11 | Or is it that they are being manipulated by people in the soft wood trade … to tarnish the good name of tropical hard wood ? |
| 12 | By all means let advertisers bring in history to help to sell their wares , but why is it that they so often mangle and corrupt it in the process ? |
| 13 | I say wonders will never cease I have just written a receipt for Mrs and I have put it in her envelope and I have written my name in , in on , I 've put from and put my name and crossed out caretaker and put treasurer and I have put underneath we do not have a caretaker so we will see what happens How did , how is it that they got to go back with them ? |
| 14 | Or is it , is it that they 've become a sort of exclusive club , arising al almost always through the ranks of the of the law , and gradually , gradually got withdrawn from the way that ordinary people think and feel . |
| 15 | Why is it that they should have had more faith ? |
| 16 | ‘ How is it that their entertaining is so — er — reliable then ? ’ |
| 17 | So what is it that we want to know ? |
| 18 | Why is it that we fear to allow God to take control of our lives ? |
| 19 | Having suggested that the National Curriculum is a constraint , what is it that we are being constrained from ? |
| 20 | How is it that we have blindly come to think that animals and other creatures have no inner life when their every action tells us that they do ? |
| 21 | And just what is it that we are objecting to ? |
| 22 | Of course , when we test Hartley 's philosophy against experience an immediate problem comes to mind : why is it that we are so often unable to link a face with a name or remember the title of a book we were reading only last week ? |
| 23 | Why is it that we human beings are so curious about everything ? |
| 24 | Why is it that we should want to know things that are , in the broad scheme , totally irrelevant ? |
| 25 | Why is it that we can look at organizations which we ourselves have worked in for most of our lives , where we have complained bitterly , where over drinks with our colleagues or at the Christmas pantomime or some other time we have given vent to our irritation at these bad organizational and behavioural characteristics ; and yet when we reach high positions in companies we consider them to be something which is beyond our capability to influence ? |
| 26 | How is it that we are able to predict the ending of a story ( and even castigate an ending for being too predictable ) ? |
| 27 | Why is it that we can all recall and retell a story , but find it hard to recall and retell the contents of a textbook or scientific paper ? |
| 28 | But what is it that we believe when we believe that one thing caused another , that the second was the effect of the first ? |
| 29 | What is it that we do that is so ‘ damaging ’ to the book trade ? |
| 30 | Is it that we help publishers to clear their excess stock to give them more space and money to print something else ? |