Example sentences of "[pers pn] [is] [that] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 in which he says that erm the more convinced that she is that it 's going to be fatal in its operation , the more determined apparently she is that Adam shall share .
2 All I can tell you is that Winsor blue is one of the trade names for an intense blue pigment , copper phthalocyanine , which came into the palette sometime in the thirties .
3 All I can tell you is that Amy was in St Benet Oldfield on Friday night . ’
4 can promise you is that commissions awarded on basis of competition , we were looking for quality , we invited bids , we
5 What I can also tell you is that Lucy 's engaged the erm British Cast Iron Research Association to carry out a survey , and they tried to repeat the circumstances of the explosion , and they could n't do so .
6 On the other hand , it 's that L.A. sound , and that 's what the Utopia is all about .
7 It is n't that one writer did something bad and somehow called punishment down upon himself ; it 's that writers in Iran , Saudi , Egypt are being persecuted by the forces of fundamentalism .
8 So it 's that Vibes question again .
9 It 's that SAS training ’ the duty officer went on .
10 We 've just seen Manchester United blast five goals past Leicester City , and it 's that sort of form they 'll need next Wednesday if they are to stay in the European Cup .
11 We 've just seen Manchester United blast five goals past Leicester City , and it 's that sort of form they 'll need next Wednesday if they are to stay in the European Cup .
12 I said to him it 's all alright , he said oh I thought it would be , it 's that sort of , sort of if you find that temperature 's too hot you just turn it down .
13 It 's that Dee who 's having the party .
14 It 's that Angela is it ?
15 ‘ I wonder if it 's that Jack the Ripper , ’ she laughed , and followed Dad out to the shed , leaving me with Liza who had just come in .
16 It 's that Jack Dollop again . ’
17 ‘ And if it is n't that , ’ said the soldier , who was a man of fixed purpose , ‘ if it is n't that , it 's that Cathbad forever trying to get his hands on your- ’
18 If you just look at the er the sheet , that we 've handed out , they loaded from er from the computer it 's that data that 's in front of you , right , we 've got three , three series , right , it 's times data , right , from nineteen twenty three to nineteen forty five , right and the three variables are , textile consumption , United States er real , sorry is benevolence of the U S , so it 's textile consumption , capita , real income er per capita income to be adjusted through inflation , so constant money terms and what the relative price of textiles P erm the price of textiles relative to the general level er the general price level .
19 The Scottish summary of what it is that parents value in teachers and what makes a poor ( as well as a good ) teacher ( SED 1989:7 — 11 ) is in some ways an up-to-date version of parts of Enquiry 1 ( Schools Council 1968 ) .
20 It is also a fact which should be given careful consideration in the attempt to determine why it is that girls rather than boys tend to become anorexic .
21 It is natural to ask … why it is that countries have Constitutions , why most of them make the Constitution superior to the ordinary law , and , further , why Britain , at any rate , has no Constitution , in this sense , at all .
22 Any decision in favour of participating in a CU depends upon the ultimate objectives of economic policy , namely what it is that countries are attempting to maximise .
23 The idea behind it is that Arnie has to move along an ever-scrolling backdrop , punching and headbutting all and sundry while ducking underneath projectiles hurled by his assailants .
24 If the Rushdie affair teaches us anything , it is that liberals and fundamentalists alike should inspect their principles in a spirit of critical self-examination .
25 The Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police might care to ponder why it is that juries increasingly dismiss the sworn evidence of his officers in favour of those accusing them of gross impropriety .
26 I shall begin , then , by trying to set out what it is that theists believe in and atheists do n't .
27 The principle is commonly known as proprietary estoppel , and since the effect of it is that B is prevented from asserting his strict legal rights it has something in common with estoppel .
28 ‘ The pity of it is that Araminta will get the Lodge after all .
29 Part of it is that interests .
30 How fortunate it is that enthusiasts such as Col. Savill have accumulated a wealth of material illustrating the railway scene .
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