Example sentences of "is [that] [indef pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we will say , if we keep clearly in mind that everything might have been the same up to the instant when the bar came out , and no bar might have come out is that nothing caused the bar to come out . |
| 2 | In any other situation the worst thing that can occur is that nothing happens at all . |
| 3 | One familiar view is that nothing qualifies as a genuine proper name unless it singles out its object in an unambiguous fashion , and that this task can be accomplished only by a logically simple symbol . |
| 4 | ‘ My guess — it 's no more than that — is that somebody came around earlier and told Mrs Tanner that there 'd be a couple of hundred quid in it for her if you showed up . |
| 5 | ‘ The only indication we have is that somebody seems to have drawn the bolt on the yard door between Gerald failing to get in at 11.15 , and the mystery woman succeeding at 11.30 . |
| 6 | My attitude is that somebody has to do the job and if I get bumped off , I have experienced much more than the average bloke . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | But the weird thing about this supposedly ‘ shock admission ’ is that everyone made the most dreadful fuss when she said she intended to ‘ go on and on and on ’ . |
| 9 | The bad news is that everyone plays victim at times . |
| 10 | The other requirement of an information-based organization is that everyone takes information responsibility . |
| 11 | The key to such a system is that everyone asks : Who in this organization depends on me for what information ? |
| 12 | One of the impressive things about all this is that everyone agrees about his modesty , his lack of show . |
| 13 | The lasting impression of these accounts is that everyone agrees that there was a ‘ permissive age ’ , or a process of change that can be described as ‘ permissive ’ , but that no-one can actually agree what constituted ‘ permissiveness ’ . |
| 14 | A R. What you are saying is that everyone seems to miss the work of Litz Pisk [ a legendary movement teacher at Central School ] who had such movement sense . |
| 15 | But if as a Westerner you can not read the abacus , or the scales , it is bad luck , because the assumption is that everyone shares the skills that enable them to do this . |
| 16 | A problem with diagnosing lipid disorders is that everyone has been obsessed with examining fasting specimens , a requirement which presents two obstacles for diabetics . |
| 17 | ‘ The important thing is that everyone has a blinding time , ’ says Dermot with the quiet confidence of a promoter who never promises attractions he ca n't deliver . |
| 18 | The first is that everyone has work but no one really works . |
| 19 | What does stand out is that everyone believes that the profession , its standards and its aims , matter , and they all feel an excitement about the job of acting . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | For instance , part of the trouble in the clean-air example is that nobody owns the air ; if somebody did , polluters would not be able to dirty it with impunity . |
| 22 | The trouble is that nobody knows where the road leads . |
| 23 | 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 ! |
| 24 | The short answer to that question is that nobody knows . |
| 25 | The truth is that nobody knows — and in so far as there will be an extra cost , that cost shows an unfulfilled need . |
| 26 | Essentially the message is that nobody knows how far community care can be made to stretch without snapping under the strain . |
| 27 | What makes it worse is that nobody seems to know what happened . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ The trouble is that nobody seems able to tell me when I 'm likely to get any money ! |
| 29 | It is that everybody understands the idea of having diarrhoea and it is not pleasant , but you do not die from it . |
| 30 | Something that rock'n'roll has in common with the kid that walks down the street — usually black — with a big ghetto blaster on his shoulders playing it too loud , is that everybody says , ‘ What a nuisance … ’ |