Example sentences of "is that [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , we , we as you correctly say er with the whole industry had a , had a difficult August , I think the good news for Rover is that we fell less in volume terms than most of the competition , and indeed we marginally increased our market share . |
| 2 | Well , perhaps the trouble is that we wrote down Maxwell 's equations in a stationary frame of reference . |
| 3 | The how we come to Jesus , the why 's we come to him are not the important thing , the real issue is that we come to him . |
| 4 | One of the most important aspects is that we saw ourselves as town traders — that magical area where buyer and seller come together . |
| 5 | Legal aid is not available in any form for industrial tribunal hearings erm so what I usually say is that we assist the client up to the stage where s it means going er to the tribunal itself . |
| 6 | What I do recall is that we drank beer which Eliot , like George Saintsbury , regarded as having certain virtues , especially at lunch-time , which wine did not possess . |
| 7 | This objection helps to reveal why it is that we regard a hierarchical classification as natural . |
| 8 | A good answer is that we regard the causal circumstance as leaving no room for any other eventuality than the effect . |
| 9 | Er the position of the county council is that we remain unconvinced of a need for such a policy . |
| 10 | Erm it 's it 's quite an interesting erm er , addition to the er original proposal but clearly members will need to take a view as to whether er they want erm the Environment Trust to do that but erm , er what I would suggest is that we bring back er , some final proposals from Environment Trust at the next meeting er , for members to have a look at . |
| 11 | We do not mean merely freedom to do as we like irrespectively of what it is that we like . |
| 12 | I have forgotten the ins and outs of it : all I remember is that we argued as passionately as if the national survival was at stake . |
| 13 | The most important issue regarding freedom is that we fear that , far from more people being given control over their lives , when the new system comes into play , fewer people will have control . |
| 14 | ‘ The second is that we step out to the supermarket and pick up some supplies . ’ |
| 15 | One apparent stumbling block to mounting more research is that we lack qualified people to do it or the resources to employ or deploy them , but as so often , a wider and less conventional look at the problem reveals one possible solution . |
| 16 | I think part of the reason for this collective blindness or , more accurately perhaps , this collective lack of action , is that we lack conviction that many of these problems are solvable , and we lack understanding of what actually can be and needs to be done to correct them . |
| 17 | The problem is that we lack virtually any faith . |
| 18 | So my conclusion is that we blanked due to a combination of the bream being well fed and very alert to danger . |
| 19 | The reason for not accepting what people call the social chapter , which is in reality the imposition of labour laws that would damage our competitiveness , is that we intend to keep our competitiveness and we are not prepared to lose our competitiveness against Japan and the United States , even though that is the express policy of the Labour party . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | If we could say ‘ I know ’ only when we could also say exhaustively how it is that we know , it would create just as much a problem for the sophisticated philosopher as for those of us who are simpler . |
| 22 | Thus it is that we know as much as we do about the Orynthia and her voyages in the late 1830s . |
| 23 | Within the training our goal is that we know worship to be a lifestyle . |
| 24 | ‘ The problem dealing with Iranian or Lebanese Shi'ite terrorists is that we know comparatively little about them . |
| 25 | All that matters is that we know and they do n't know that we do . ’ |
| 26 | The result is that we know nothing about it except its external face , how its economy worked , and that has mostly been described by unsympathetic observers . |
| 27 | The reason we want to adopt other people 's beliefs is that we know that everyone wants their own beliefs to be true : because , as we 've seen , truth is what makes our own beliefs useful to us in the way I described earlier , by making our actions succeed in fulfilling our desires . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ The problem is that we know nothing about either the land or the people , ’ Alexei said . |
| 30 | The main point about a search is that we know what we are looking for and often we know where to look . |