Example sentences of "is [that] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Mr Chatrier put it : ‘ All I would ask of any successor is that he will always try to put the best interests of the sport before money . |
| 2 | But then another paradox is that he was successful in persuading the government to allow increased investment , especially in rolling stock . |
| 3 | More worrying , perhaps , is that he happily accepts most people at home and outdoors , but sometimes shies away , even from people he 's met . |
| 4 | Svidrigailov 's answer , when Raskolnikov asks him Shy do n't you see a doctor ? ’ is that he does n't need to be told he 's ill . |
| 5 | Amidst this confusion , my view of ‘ At Tikhon 's ’ as a hyperlucid footnote to Crime and Punishment , as misconceived crisis and clarity , needs justifying : the very point of Stavrogin 's scattering of ‘ reasons ’ is that he and his document shall not come clear or clinch anything . |
| 6 | Pound may be right or wrong about the merits of Binyon 's version , as about the sorts of language that are acceptable in verse translation ; what is certain is that he 's here applying to diction a sort of sliding scale or set of variable standards such as Ford 's principles did n't allow for . |
| 7 | As for Williams , who had an English father , it would be easy to explain away his hostility to England ; but the sorrier likelihood is that he saw quite justly the baleful mixture of timidity and arrogance which characterized literary London in his lifetime . |
| 8 | The more firmly he tells them and the country that , as Prime Minister , he and not they will rule , the more likely it is that he will eventually reach Downing Street . |
| 9 | The good news is that he will not be rushed off to stud afterwards and will campaign for further honours next year when a move up to a mile and a quarter might be considered . |
| 10 | ‘ The trouble with T S , ’ says one long-time acquaintance , ‘ is that he can not bring himself to confide in anybody . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Ken Livingstone 's problem is that he is always on the television slagging the party off . ’ |
| 12 | All that Keay is prepared to say on the subject is that he will continue to coach Middlesex in the county championship . |
| 13 | But the important quality about Dick Crossman , which made him unique among Members of Parliament and made his testament to the understanding of British Government unique , is that he was the pure , 100 per cent archetypal don , a don through and through , albeit a don whose special subject was politics in practice . |
| 14 | One is that he has been in the ring with Michael Gerard Tyson . |
| 15 | What history will say of his tenure of office is that he had very difficult decisions to make in awkward circumstances and while England 's international team suffered an unimaginable decline most of the 17 first-class counties , his prime concern , flourished more than might have been expected . |
| 16 | The real problem is that he is Swiss and not Danish . |
| 17 | He did not mention that one definition of a composer 's talent is that he can write music that compels an audience 's attention . |
| 18 | The difference , and the difficulty , for the television reporter is that he inevitably becomes a partner in this process of suppression . |
| 19 | The former lorry driver is now busy exporting Krystom throughout Europe and his only regret is that he no longer has time to go fishing . |
| 20 | The charge is that he allowed domestic inflation to get out of control and messed around with the exchange rate when he should have been applying the monetarist remedy . |
| 21 | His weakness is that he has only four or five votes on the committee and his intermittent appearances and lack of involvement in either the Headingley School or the Bradford Academy will count against him , all past prejudices apart . |
| 22 | His fear is that he will be tortured to extract information about his brother . |
| 23 | His great strength is that he looks a small-'c' conservative , with that appealing moderation which used to be thought Tory . |
| 24 | The biggest danger of Mr MacGregor 's decision is that he perpetuates a system that fails to reward good classroom teaching . |
| 25 | One explanation is that he wanted to keep open an option should the pound run into fresh trouble , as well it may . |
| 26 | Now , as one New York dealer put it a week ago , ‘ the word is that he 's cashing in . ’ |
| 27 | The central point is that he and his advisers recognise that this is now the main task . |
| 28 | What gets me about this guy Alderson is that he served in the country area of Cornwall , and he makes all these proposals about inner-city policing ; now how the hell would he know anything about the inner city ? |
| 29 | The import ant fact about Baudelaire is that he was essentially a Christian , born out of his due time , and a classicist , born out of his due time … his tendency to ‘ ritual ’ … springs from no attachment to the outward forms of Christianity , but from the instincts of a soul that was naturaliter Christian . |
| 30 | You will understand how important it is that he does , ’ The message was that if there was no agreement at Chicago , Congress might not be in a mood to furnish further British Lend-Lease requirements . |