Example sentences of "[is] that [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had , of course , known those grandparents whose glamour made Alexandra 's existence so difficult , but he saw them in a light so different from his wife 's that they seemed hardly the same people . |
| 2 | What I would like to think is is that we put together an annual report for our own purposes , and that goes out to a very limited distribution , as Trevor was suggesting . |
| 3 | When it comes to other sensory systems , much of the problem is that we have n't the sort of clear ideas about how they might work that we have about the visual system . |
| 4 | The main consideration in gaining a clear conscience is that we work out the wording carefully in advance as the prodigal son did when he was off in the far country . |
| 5 | ‘ Easy , ’ I replied , ‘ You see , the things about the Americans is that they 've absolutely no CLAAAARSE . ’ |
| 6 | Therefore a physical interpretation of vector components is that they make up a tangent . |
| 7 | The value of such studies is that they show plainly the ubiquity of popular political action , which may be diffuse , episodic , lacking any clearly formulated doctrine , or expressing itself mainly in religious or cultural terms , but always provides a matrix from which political organizations can emerge in favourable circumstances . |
| 8 | The result is that they move along the beach with a type of zigzag motion ( Fig. 8.14 ) . |
| 9 | The result is that they hang around the city and most family incomes are supplemented by crime of one sort or another . |
| 10 | Yet the danger of both these kinds of literature is that they offer just the kinds of all-explaining and deterministic theories as the form of Marxism we reviewed earlier . |
| 11 | The second , and by no means less important , purpose , is that they open up a transmission channel for information from the recipient . |
| 12 | The reason for putting the onus of proof on the firms is that they have both the incentive to make the case , and access to the detailed information on which the case is to be based . |
| 13 | The problem for the police is that they have almost no chance of determining whether Mr Kevorkian assisted or not . |
| 14 | The overwhelming conclusion emerging from any assessment of these programmes is that they have only a marginal impact on inner-urban problems . |
| 15 | She carried her sandwich over to join him , saying : ‘ My excuse for being down here is that I have n't a moment to spare . |
| 16 | The wood is alder and the deal is that I scaled down the body a little bit . |
| 17 | The idea is that you bring along a fully licensed copy of a rival business application , buy a Microsoft Office Trade-In pack , which includes a mouse mat , voucher and pre-paid envelope , post the voucher with proof of ownership and Microsoft sends you Office 3.0 , which has a recommended price of £575 . |
| 18 | One general outcome of the comparison between the original and the reconstructions is that it brought out the very blandness and the almost self-conscious " flatness ' of Hemingway 's style . |
| 19 | The benefit of creating such groups is that it breaks down the multifarious functions of a branch committee into discreet areas , to which special attention can be given . |
| 20 | One of the central features of the company is that it separates out the functions of ownership and management . |
| 21 | The appeal of Brand A is that it does all the work for the slimmer . |
| 22 | The attractiveness of this model is that it requires only a modest increase of temperature of around 100°C at the base of the lithosphere . |
| 23 | Another is that it opens up the risk financing options available . |
| 24 | The view from many of the schools which took part , is that it tells only a fraction of the story . |
| 25 | Its distinguishing feature is that it uses only a very few basic operators — typically just one , called modus ponens , or some equivalent — which are very well understood and reliable . |
| 26 | Whether you see jumble as giving or refuse disposal , the fact is that it makes up a significant part of the income of small local organisations . |
| 27 | The major drawback with the Byrne approach , however , is that it provides only an incidental guide to the way in which the services might be allocated between different types of local authority . |
| 28 | The Government 's latest position on the Maastricht Bill debacle , presented with patrician brazenness by Douglas Hurd yesterday as the law officers ' latest position , is that it matters not a whit whether MPs approve Labour 's amendment on the social chapter . |
| 29 | ‘ The real value of the CANZ series is that it brings together a group of national level players for two weeks with games against consistently top level opposition which would be difficult to duplicate anywhere else . |
| 30 | 6.5 An interesting result of testing the possibilities of occurrence with an indefinite head is that it brings out the doubtful validity of certain other cases which Bolinger cites ( and which one might have regarded suspiciously on purely intuitive grounds anyway ) . |