Example sentences of "is [prep] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if it is only for one moment that a spasm in your face draws my attention to the intensity of your pain , a glimpse from which I flinch back into insensibility , it is during that moment that a choice between my conflicting pulls to help and to ignore will be made in fullest awareness . |
| 2 | ‘ I wonder , sometimes , what it is about that woman that haunts both you and me ? ’ |
| 3 | This book is about that conflict of values , the efforts made in the last few years to come to terms with that conflict , and its implication for one of the major issues of our time — the reshaping of our farm policy , which , with the single aim of increased food production , has transformed the countryside over the last forty years in what is perhaps the greatest agricultural revolution since the settling of England began . |
| 4 | This should not be taken too literally — not every rock in the crust is a granite — things like limestones are vastly different in composition — but the average composition of all the rocks on the continents is about that of granite and contains over 60 per cent of silica . |
| 5 | Being a first-class citizen is about that kind of civic engagement . |
| 6 | His play is about that mythical creature , the common man . |
| 7 | This book is about that experience . |
| 8 | I think , you know , I think in answer to the embarrassment question , I think although it is about that erm , people are nay do , people wi on just are nay prepared to commit with information , I think , in areas there 's a wealth of information and experience |
| 9 | What do you think it is about that 's sort of helped this shop survive for so many years . |
| 10 | which is about that . |
| 11 | Yes it is about that . |
| 12 | I mean he 's been known to do that because he you know what is going to happen with him commercially in his newspapers and he 's actually very clever and I mean none of us I mean okay and I think Peter might be the but I can get quite upset or intense or distressed or whatever the word is about that sort of stuff , because I am my background is journalism and I 'm quite pure about it , but we 're living in reality times here and the reality times is that he has got certain agendas . |
| 13 | Yeah , she 's about that age , yeah she is about that age |
| 14 | grandson is about that age and very sympathetic she is erm I said er Mary Ann says she does n't know what the point is , you do n't really want to do it he said , she 's right , I do n't he said , in a way I do , in another way I do n't , I said |
| 15 | and it was windy right , he got a tree a third of the height of that on a table , they puts it up on a table , and underneath the tree they have got one present which is member of the family from each member of the family , right , that is it , one present , it maybe a box of chocolates , you know , or a box of cigars , something like that , children wake up Christmas morning they have a bag which is about that big , with a full of sweets and bits and pieces , little toy car thing and they have one big present , right , and I 'll tell you what festivity over there is as well , that must , it because it 's not over dark because there no big glory about it , there so much more relaxed that , well Chris he said , yeah |
| 16 | no , so he said erm , when I opened it court order , I said well I do n't know what yours is I said but it 's nothing to do with this , I said this is about that so when I opened the other one I remember then that when they originally built that court order bit he give me one cheque for sixty two quid and one for sixty nine |
| 17 | It is about that . |
| 18 | Well , my , my memory right , you go down into , into like a , the ground floor and the top of the , like the bottom of the next floor is about that sort of height , but there is a wall up there sort of thing , which erm , I , I must , which you could probably get on . |
| 19 | The actual hose is about that long . |
| 20 | Ours is about that big and |
| 21 | Liquid air , liquid nitrogen is , is about that temperature and , and it 's |
| 22 | True , without error , certain and most true ; that which is above is as that which is below , and that which is below is as that which is above , for performing the miracles of the One Thing ; and as all things were from One , by the mediation of One , so all things arose from this One Thing by adaptation ; the father of it is the Sun , the mother of it is the Moon ; the wind carries it in its belly ; the nurse thereof is the Earth . |
| 23 | True , without error , certain and most true ; that which is above is as that which is below , and that which is below is as that which is above , for performing the miracles of the One Thing ; and as all things were from One , by the mediation of One , so all things arose from this One Thing by adaptation ; the father of it is the Sun , the mother of it is the Moon ; the wind carries it in its belly ; the nurse thereof is the Earth . |
| 24 | No house is worth that down here . |
| 25 | Ca n't say I agree with all their figures … good as he is I do n't think kelly is worth that sort of money at such an early age … certainly should n't be more than dorigo . |
| 26 | that is worth that money |
| 27 | That is off that 's off the price erm this this particular fabric , |
| 28 | So to stop it being a through route , because it 's not part it 's not a necessary route for private cars to go down , and it is , of course , extremely important because the entrance to the bus station is off that route . |
| 29 | It is for that reason that I include it on the shortlist for the Worst Building in the World title . |
| 30 | There are many reasons why , in the early nineteenth century , different considerations would intrude on the modelling of a dissected female body rather than that of a male , but one conclusion we could draw from these figures is that the human norm is male , and the only reason to look at female bodies is for that which makes them female , i.e. the reproductive system . |