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

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1 It made me realize that things need n't be , that nothing is what it seems in life , that there are no rules . ’
2 but a when when somebody when it 's becoming apparent that somebody is I would n't say is not interested in your little complaint that you 've got and that that they 're they 're trying to change to subject it 's difficult to keep them on it
3 The lumpy smoothness of all its surfaces reinforces the sense that Plenty is something organic , something that was generated , not constructed .
4 The source added : ‘ Di told Enya that she is her number one fan , and they have since met again and have now become quite good friends . ’
5 And at the end of it all , realising how much she has contributed to and gained from this greatest of all creative acts , she proclaims that she is Myself , Myself .
6 What this means is that the taking of leisure is self-defeating ; the fact that one is one 's own boss adds to , rather than subtracts from , the psychological pressures to do housework .
7 And that something is nothing more than their inward consciousness , heavily hemmed in by their subtle and instinctive mental processes .
8 The one point on which Mr Golyadkin and Double were agreed was that there is nobody like God , but it follows pat and false that if a man has nowhere to go God will look after him .
9 Er it 's something that we 're trained in to ensure that there is nobody hiding behind the door .
10 Most drama training works on the assumption that there is something called ‘ standard English ’ , which is generally considered to be the ‘ straight ’ delivery of words without affectation or regional variation .
11 One can also add that there is something in the present policies of the SDLP which suggest a need to maintain a somewhat fragile unity in respect of the national question .
12 However , it seems to me that there is something a little perverse in leaving me your notes on the making of the Big Glass when you must have known perfectly well that they contained material I would be certain to find offensive .
13 That there is something he does not know is shown by the fact that if he were to gain his sight , he would come to know something that he previously had not known .
14 At first sight this looks like an uninteresting stipulation about how to use the word ‘ fact ’ — uninteresting because the anti-materialist could as well state his case using some such term as ‘ feature ’ or ‘ aspect ’ , and it is difficult to see how , once having allowed that there is something called ‘ what it is like to see ’ which one only learns by seeing , one could refuse to describe this as a feature or aspect of mental life .
15 So we started by asking our friends , who in turn asked others , until we were eventually inundated with testimonies from witnesses around the world who provided popular proof that there is something about the cinema that encourages , right there in the picture house , thoughts , feelings and behaviour in its patrons by turns enigmatic , terrifying , erotic , sad , hilarious and poetic , often triggered by uncanny interplay between screen image and real-time events in the auditorium and in the world beyond the muffled doors .
16 The idea that there is something of a lag between terminology and social system is interesting and there does indeed sometimes seem to be this type of gap .
17 Throughout Marx 's work he stresses , as he had done for labour , the fantastic nature of the capitalist concept of property , the fantastic notion that there is something of our personality in the things or places we own .
18 All these examples suggest that there is something else , over and above a response of the body to our life-style and environment .
19 Now we would humbly suggest that there is something slightly wrong here .
20 News footage showing an angry crowd mobbing badger baiters as they entered a courtroom for trial suggests that there is something especially odious about using dogs to tear badgers apart .
21 Obviously different social groups have a varying ability to articulate these concerns , but there is a widely shared general notion that there is something valuable — ‘ the British way of life ’ — which would be undermined by translation into an overwhelmingly Catholic country .
22 Politicians , planners and architects — who teamed up to create many an urban disaster area — are now united in the view that there is something seriously wrong with British cities .
23 Let us remember that there is something of God in everyone — even people we find it difficult to like .
24 May we try to show them by our own example that there is something good in everyone .
25 The sight of judges and magistrates going on strike and scuffling with police outside the Palace of Justice and the recent murder of a policewoman in a riot ( June 1991 ) , as well as the regular disruption of life by numerous strikes , especially in public services , indicate that there is something seriously wrong .
26 However , whilst I remain suspicious of Hick 's cosy position , it may be possible to accept that there is something approaching a common theistic structure among a number of the world 's religious traditions .
27 We need to convince both the parent and the child that there is something attractive to offer .
28 Surely any fool should be able to see that there is something wrong with a child like that .
29 That kind of mystical knowledge that there is something incredibly black around the corner .
30 It is impossible to believe in the journey of the spirit without believing that there is something else after this life .
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