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 … |