Example sentences of "that [is] [conj] it " in BNC.

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1 I am satisfied , therefore , that the issue which arises for determination , that is whether it is in the children 's interests that the mother should be permitted to live with them in England or whether they should be brought up in Australia where they could have more frequent contact with their father , may properly be determined in either court .
2 The question which arises is whether the family proceedings court can make an order for no contact ; that is whether it could properly be said to be an order which was ‘ appropriate ’ with respect to the contact between the child and the parent .
3 All I can understand from that is that it must be a universal image .
4 All I can understand from that is that it must be a universal image .
5 All I can say about that is that it must have been awfully feeble acid to make your visions come out so pedestrian as this .
6 The only problem with that is that it 's not necessarily going to be accepted .
7 One thing to be said of that is that it does not at all follow , from the fact that we can not give particular descriptions of items that fall within a set , that we can not satisfactorily conceive of and describe the set .
8 I think a , that there 's another point that we should all remember and that is that it should n't just be our opinion either , we are sort of told from high certain things
9 However , the predicate displays at least one of the characteristics of a semantic dependant , and that is that it is expected to bring to the construction semantic traits not encapsulated in the subject ; furthermore , in cases of pleonasm , it is the predicate whose specificity must be increased to achieve normality :
10 for a very simple purpose and that is that it , it improves our internal control .
11 Now the idea behind that is that it builds up and keeps in trim the muscles of the feet and ankles and legs , which is going to be what gets you about because you realize your retirement is going to be as good as your legs .
12 ( All you can say about that is that it 's a change from bagpipes . )
13 and that is that it is
14 never , no , and that is that it is constrained by a very tight village envelope which has actually just been defined and statutorily approved as an alteration to the rural areas local plan erm , and th the effect of that village envelope is to limit the possible amount of development to I would say no more than three or four hundred house .
15 The third thing about that is that it represents us saying continuum .
16 The reason for that is that it is we are operating in a in an environment of planning policy restraint .
17 Erm the reasons that we were er anxious about this allocation to Harrogate erm stemmed from the point that I think somebody should make on this occasion and that is that it does seem there are two local authorities within North Yorkshire that have particularly distinguished er issues to deal with on employment .
18 Now that can happen both ways , but it 's very important that one feature of that is that it makes somebody uncomfortable .
19 Yes , because the snag is with that is that it means the vast amount of , and then the gypsum that is produced has got to be disposed of has n't it , so that the limestone is mined and then they 've got to get rid of the gypsum .
20 That is unless it 's sold to the sort of person who blasts half of his land away to quarry gravel for motorways , like someone I can think of on the west coast .
21 That is unless it is either an exclusion clause made unenforceable by the Unfair Contract Terms 1977 ( see Chapter 10 ) or a penalty clause .
22 That is because it is a magnificent structure , the supreme architectural expression of the heroic , monumental phase of power station design and the creation of a great architect .
23 That is because it is an area where Marx and Engels , misled by Morgan , went most wrong , yet where at the same time they made the best use of anthropology .
24 Perhaps I 'll come to the conclusion [ that ] … that is because it was real .
25 That is because it touches on many aspects of life that are deeply important to us :
26 ‘ If so , that is because it suited my uncle 's purpose — he will use Buckingham just as long as it suits him and not a moment longer . ’
27 There is another reason for the reluctance to indulge in creative thinking and that is because it is often confused with original thought .
28 Now those are arteries , that 's the pulmonary artery but it 's coming back to the heart okay , that 's the only time you 're going to find the rule reversed , arteries leave the heart , veins come back to the heart , and the only time that rule is reversed is when you 're linking the heart and the lungs through the pulmonary vein and the pulmonary artery , however , they are still carrying , the arteries are still carrying oxygen charged blood , yes , because it 's come fresh from the lungs so it 's still carrying nice red lovely oxygenated blood , yes , even though it 's coming back into the heart , that is because it 's come fresh from the lungs and the vein although it 's going in the opposite direction the way you normally expect it , is still carrying the old rotten , you know , used up blood , because it 's going back to the lungs to be recharged , do you understand it alright ?
29 That is because it demonstrates how poorly British farmers co-operate to sell their products — I hope that my right hon. Friend 's marketing grants will assist with that problem — and spells out in words of one syllable that the British farmer will not be discriminated against in Europe .
30 That is because it feeds on to the most congested part of the York inner ring road which is the er Gillygate erm Lord Mayor 's Walk section .
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