Example sentences of "about [pron] is that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The point about them is that , uniquely in the Province , they are both Unionist and resolutely non-sectarian . |
| 2 | One of the nice things about them is that they are situated in one of the quieter areas between Palma Nova and Magalluf , but it is only a short walk to the beaches and nightlife of both resorts . |
| 3 | There are good habits and bad habits but the main point about them is that they are all behaviour patterns which have been so thoroughly learned that they are done automatically without any conscious effort . |
| 4 | The most important thing to know about them is that they work synergistically with minerals : that is they enhance each other , adding up to more than the individual sum of their parts . |
| 5 | First thing to be said about them is that they 're all proteins covering a very wide range of molecular weights between three and three hundred kilobocals three thousand to three hundred thousand bocals . |
| 6 | Perhaps the most important thing to be remarked about them is that their numbers are very small and that almost all of them are men . |
| 7 | What is interesting about them is that while the development corporations acquired powers that gave them a great deal of autonomy within their own territories , there is today a variety of questions to be raised about the extent to which their ‘ success ’ was secured at the expense of other policies to which they ‘ ought ’ to have related . |
| 8 | What makes you nervous about them is that when you go to dinner with them , they pump up the chair . |
| 9 | I said , the vilest thing about them is that they can say that with a smile on their faces . |
| 10 | ‘ All I can say about them is that they were a real joy , ’ Bill Pertwee remembers . |
| 11 | The best thing about them is that you can personalise your gifts . |
| 12 | They all they know about me is that my name is number twenty eight . |
| 13 | All they know about me is that I 'm number twenty eight . |
| 14 | ‘ Of course what people find impossible to understand about you is that you genuinely do n't know what effect you have on men . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ One of the things I like about you is that you 're so ridiculous . ’ |
| 16 | The interesting thing about him is that he was one of those people who always turn out to be lucky no matter what they do . |
| 17 | But the central irony about him is that it was not only the Norwegian people that rejected him : even the majority of Norwegian fascists did n't want him . |
| 18 | All I can tell you about him is that he was an ensign flying a Catalina aircraft in England thirty-two years ago . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ The great thing about him is that he can fight in and out of the trenches . |
| 20 | ‘ The great thing about him is that he always wants the ball and always wants to use it . |
| 21 | ‘ I think what came across most strongly about him is that he 's such a charming and pleasant person , ’ Dominic says of Justin . |
| 22 | The best thing about him is that I like him . |
| 23 | I 've only been in Dick 's flat once and the most interesting thing I 've gleaned about him is that he never uses washing-up liquid and he has a rather interesting pile of yellowing press cuttings sitting on a shelf . |
| 24 | The key point about her is that although she obviously needs the state and its resources , she does not need these in the oppressive , bureaucratic and regulatory forms in which they come . |
| 25 | All I know about her is that she 's twice a widow … |
| 26 | What is particularly boring about it is that all the arguments are circular . |
| 27 | It is an imaginative use of the word , but what is significant about it is that it reappears in that sense in only one other place in the Old Testament , in the passage immediately preceding God 's appearance on Sinai . |
| 28 | Whatever it 's called , though , one of the most gloomy facts about it is that it now spends more on weapons than on health and education put together |
| 29 | The crucial point to notice about it is that the entities whose ‘ fitnesses ’ are being compared are no longer individual organisms , but populations of organisms . |
| 30 | For our purposes , what matters about it is that it is an all-or-none signal , with an amplitude that does not attenuate as it travels along the axon . |