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

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1 And yet , he wrote , the wonder is that this nothing holds the elements together .
2 What is clear is that this was all one society , in which the wives — like Mrs Lowndes herself — wrote books or maintained salons , while their husbands were functionaries , some of them much in the public eye as ministers of the Crown , others — like Frederic Lowndes — no less influential and esteemed for operating under wraps , as grey eminences .
3 What is legally disturbing is that this aspect appears in a summing-up at all , since it encourages an assumption that a libel has been perpetrated .
4 The common view is that this is unthinkable and politically unacceptable .
5 The evidence of the students at the college is that this was a clear teacher .
6 The bad news for small-time acts is that this exploratory role has diminished significantly over the last ten years .
7 One reason is that this conflation of binaries enables a merging of misogyny and homophobia , each of which then potentially expresses the violence of the other .
8 When it is said that the continuation of the sterling area was an ‘ implicit ’ decision ( in sharp contrast to the debates on overseas expenditure ) the point being made is that this continuation was not the result , it would seem , of any debate within the Attlee government .
9 But I think the critical issue of Black Monday and what 's happened since is that this is a very major change in the nature of the market place , but not in the underlying economies of countries , especially the UK .
10 The good news is that this protective effect not only extends to babies , it applies to the nursing mothers too .
11 However , the architects ' view is that this communal aspect of the building is most clearly expressed architecturally by the central atrium , a space overlooked by the lift lobbies and the galleries of each upper floor that gives access to the flats .
12 What we also notice in the chapters dealing with the Fall , and in particular with Adam and Eve , is that this is not just a book by a scholar in a library .
13 The irony is that this victory may contain the seeds of eventual defeat .
14 Yet the plain fact is that this number of children are dying every day — dying from diseases we know how to cure .
15 The result is that this whole question of measuring risk has became a mess .
16 The concern is that this high energy agitation can transform healthy amino acids into toxic ‘ mirror images ’ of themselves .
17 The fly in the ointment , and a huge one , is that this new Chicago , new Democratic party , and new city government is white ( or anyhow non-black ) .
18 A more flattering explanation is that this was an economic revolt from below .
19 The big worry for British engineering companies is that this recession , like the previous one , will increase the rate at which their share of world markets is shrinking .
20 The idea is that this aircraft could fill the gap in the navy 's procurement schedule caused by the recent cancellation of the A-12 stealth machine that the navy was developing .
21 The good news is that this gives Mr Gorbachev one last chance to pull away from disaster .
22 The fact is that this is a prominent feature of the existing law , in which there are only two major offences ( rape and indecent assault ) and in which some 42 per cent of those charged with rape have a plea of guilty to indecent assault accepted by the court .
23 And our dilemma is that this is precisely what we do with it .
24 However , the great hope all dieters have is that this new diet will be the one that will really work .
25 What does matter is that this attitude , this adoration , this genuine sense of awe and gentle , honourable respect for womanhood should be placed on record as an accurate indication of my state of mind and pattern of conduct .
26 What Turing showed is that this is not a universal truth .
27 What is so amazing is that this stuff keeps going on .
28 ‘ The critical point here is that this will not only affect high income earners but all people owning property .
29 But the irony is that this perception was not clearly shared by the Conservative high command , at least until quite late in the campaign .
30 And the good news is that this mind-boggling occasion will not be spoilt by the Welsh team trotting on when it has all finished …
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