Example sentences of "is that [pron] have " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 ‘ 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 .
3 A problem with diagnosing lipid disorders is that everyone has been obsessed with examining fasting specimens , a requirement which presents two obstacles for diabetics .
4 ‘ 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 .
5 The first is that everyone has work but no one really works .
6 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 .
7 The great thing is that everybody has been to the cinema , and many have had a strange experience there . ’
8 The other view is that we 've got a rule and we 've got to stick to it . ’
9 The result is that we 've received over 3,000 hours of new work , and most of this is on priority jobs .
10 ‘ The saddest thing is that we 've been persuaded that true travellers know how to haggle .
11 ‘ The point I 'm tryin' to make is that we 've done well — even you , Noreen .
12 He said : ‘ All I know is that we 've signed him on a playing contract for four years and we 're delighted to have him back .
13 I think one of the biggest problems we 've got or I 've I 've had in the last couple of years is that we 've got so many primary schools that we get children from Spring Gardens and Western are now producing national curriculum information for which Marian has got .
14 The th the snapshot is that we 've looked at twenty eight jobs , and out of those twenty eight jobs , if we have been working on scale fees , it would appear that we would have lost money on twenty of them .
15 ‘ The problem about us , ’ said Helen , ‘ is that we 've never felt the same way about money as most other people seem to . ’
16 It , but er the difference this is that we 've got a piece of fabric coming of there with a weight holding it down .
17 ‘ What is new in the book is that we 've produced surviving British intelligence officers of senior rank who make it clear that Popov had this information and was specifically sent to the US to impart it . ’
18 The good news is that we 've got the ticket agencies on our side .
19 The big improvement with the council tax is that we 've gone back to the old system which is 100% rebates for those classified on low income .
20 Most significant news of all is that we 've just won the highly respected Dataquest Customer Satisfaction Poll against competition from the other best manufacturing names in the industry .
21 That 's right , our position is that we 've already erm adversely affected our environment if you like as and the balanced er approach respectively needs to meet housing requirements .
22 Could I just start with the white paper on community care funding because I think , as he said in the introduction , it is a complex subject , erm , and it does involve a lengthy transition period , and therefore in terms of its understanding , I think it 's important that members are aware both how the money is coming to us , broadly what we 're doing with it , and , and how it is that we 've reached the conclusion that there 's a great under-funding in the , in the present proposals .
23 And as you 've seen with previous closures of our homes , the last three , is that we 've been able to utilize some of those resources to provide that shift in policy which has been very successful , and has , er , a process that we 've got has allayed people 's fears who 've been used for those residential home agreements .
24 And the final point I wanted to make , although yes , we do welcome the special transitional grant second tranche of ten point eight million pounds , and it would be churlish not to , it is nevertheless a reduction on what the share of it was last year erm s of the national total so there is actually a reduction in the share that is getting this year , and alongside that , and of course hence the need for the recommendation in the budget , is that we 've actually lost very specifically one point eight five six million in the rollover grant from last year 's erm S T D tranche which we are specifically asking and very grateful to policy and resources for , hopefully , erm we 're asking and we 're hopeful they will underpin it and the Chairman is here and er er has nodded in that direction I think it 's fair to say .
25 Erm , this is something that I 've spoken with about over a long period and what really has concerned me is that we 've two red signals , both facing the traffic and children and blind people could be crossing thinking the traffic had held up , and when I or detecting we rely on our own engineers maybe going round that way , maybe the police or public reporting it .
26 And our belief is that we 've got money to pay you that 's why we do n't delay in paying you .
27 But what we 're talking about now is that we 've made up our mind A that you er I believe and you believe you can do this job .
28 But I mean , one of the things that we 've got on with at the moment is that we 've been saying for ages , you 've got to get your you 've got to get us involved at design stage .
29 The consequence of that is that we 've seen a continuation of road-building schemes which have caused considerable damage to the countryside , devastated communities and have no real hope of soaking up the so-called demand for new roads .
30 I know , so I mean the thing is that we 've always said have n't ya as long as you can sort of get 'em down
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