Example sentences of "[verb] [is] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are a number of , sort of a dictionary of useful phrases , I mean you actually used one or two just now , and one of the things that we suggest is that people when they 're not under the pressure of being in the studio , which after all for them is alien territory , that they should actually have one or two of these useful phrases which do cover a , a multitude of embarrassing situations , if you want to put it that away . |
| 2 | What is equally worth noticing is that Antisthenes of Rhodes was one of the historians Polybius disliked and attacked . |
| 3 | What matters is that Ministers should be ready and willing to come to the House of Commons when expected to do so in order to answer questions from elected representatives on matters of genuine public interest and importance . |
| 4 | What matters is that Polybius found in Rome people who would not differ from educated Greeks in their interests , ideas and emotional reactions . |
| 5 | Consequently , the offenders are not important ; what matters is that opportunities must be reduced and risks increased and this requires that attention be given to the situations in which offences may occur . |
| 6 | What matters is that people should have somewhere to live . |
| 7 | One more piece of information you should possess before the tale unfolds is that Michael was encased in two leg callipers as a result of polio — contracted when one year old — and walked , or rather surges about with the aid of two crutches . |
| 8 | What might be forgotten is that Land had spent years in the laboratory perfecting the polarization process , schooling his scientific and inventive abilities , practising and repeating , learning his craft . |
| 9 | What is happening is that women have shown their competence in practice and this has helped to change machista attitudes . |
| 10 | An outcome such as 4 raises A's utility to and B's to Intuitively , what is happening is that A 's loss of utility from the reduction of her own income is being more than compensated for by the knowledge that B 's income is also falling . |
| 11 | The Unionist MP Ken Maginnis , a former UDR member , said : ‘ What I hope is not happening is that people who — as I would have had in my time — had montages for lawful and necessary purposes will be made scapegoats . ’ |
| 12 | A lot of the times what is really happening is that people are being put into artificial jobs . |
| 13 | Our assessment has always been , and continues to be , of a very … complex kind , because what is happening is that people are getting feedback from us all by working with us . |
| 14 | What seems to be happening is that Valerie is adopting a " Jamaican " persona in which irritation may be shown more freely ( but also , perhaps , less threateningly ) to a person 's face . |
| 15 | What he does n't seem to know is that Albie had been talking to Carmichael . |
| 16 | One fact which people often forget is that horses which have passed the acute clinically ill stage of the disease will still remain infectious for up to six weeks or possibly even longer . |
| 17 | What we do know is that I M R O asked for this information in June nineteen eighty-eight and not long afterwards I M R O granted recognition to B I M and other Maxwell Companies , all the more surprising perhaps having raised the questions whether the question must come about , did they continue with their investigation , or did they let the matter drop and perhaps you might to comment in that context . |
| 18 | ‘ All I do know is that others who approached me were warned off . |
| 19 | What we do know is that Lloyd George , despite his public stance of support for the National Government , thought , in private , that it had been a mistake for the Liberals to join it . |
| 20 | The origins of HIV are uncertain yet one thing we do know is that HIV has the potential to affect everybody worldwide . |
| 21 | WHAT I do know is that people like Havel have been getting a little impatient with those relishing pieces appearing lately in the American press that say , roughly : ‘ Right , you guys over there have had your romantic Ruritanian fun and games with revolution and dancing in the streets . |
| 22 | What we and Holyfield do know is that Bowe offers a safer route , if not to heavyweight immortality then to respectful acceptance by his peers for his efforts inside the ring , in line with the respect his quiet dignity commands outside it . |
| 23 | What Honey and Munnford found is that people learn in basically four ways , the first of which is is the activist . |
| 24 | The implicit claim to be considered is that apes are , qualitatively speaking , a quantum jump ahead of other animals in this respect ( although admittedly not many others have been investigated ) : that they are ‘ on our side of the divide ’ . |
| 25 | What actually happens is that Carol answers her own question — in London English , with " don " remember when it was " . |
| 26 | And what happens is that females , females have pouches that produce eggs but they only hold a small , they only hold a small volume . |
| 27 | Briefly , what happens is that chapters 1 and 2 of Book III take Aragorn , Legolas and Gimli from the 26th to the 28th February ; chapters 3 and 4 lead Pippin and Merry from the 26th February to the 2nd March ; chapters 5–7 return to Aragorn and his companions and ‘ leapfrog ’ them past Merry and Pippin again to the 4th March ; while in chapter 8 these two sub-groups of the fellowship meet again on the 5th , for Merry and Pippin to bring their story up-to-date again in recounted narrative . |
| 28 | So , what probably happens is that women at the bottom of the social heap in the United States , having poor health care , high stressed lives , crime , drugs and all these kind of problems , probably have more spontaneous abortions , therefore the sex ratio away from males towards females , whereas women at the top of the social scale , low stress lives , good health care , better maternity erm medicine , stuff like that , retain more foetuses , therefore you 'd expect them to have more males , and this is what seems to happen . |
| 29 | What happens is that negotiations take place . |
| 30 | Sugar , in his sworn statement , said : ‘ Venables said what usually happens is that people would meet Clough in a motorway cafe somewhere , and that Clough would be handed a bag of money . ’ |