Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] is [that] " in BNC.
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1 | Our eyes do not wander randomly around the page when we are reading , but certain sorts of words are fixated more often than others ( O'Regan , 1979 ) , and this means that we must know in advance of a fixation where it is that we are going to look next . |
2 | Good call on Kelly although if he keeps playing like he is that would be a conservative estimate , how anyone could ask 1.4 for fat ‘ mars ’ mel is beyond belief though — he has n't kicked a ball in 2 years ! ! ! |
3 | But I think that sex can be a fleeting thing and sometimes I believe that if it is that alone as the basis of a relationship , then all the finer and better qualities are thrown out of the window . |
4 | If it is that I do not , on the grounds that had I heard about the invitation my justification would have been defeated , you have a duty to give some account of why the ( unknown to me ) truth that my wife has refused the invitation does not somehow redress the balance . |
5 | If it is that the Court of Appeal should have relisted his case , then his application would have to have been made to the Commission by March 1991 . |
6 | ‘ I 'm not sure if it is that fast but you can reach horrific speeds . ’ |
7 | Because if he is that we can get that as an educational presentation . |
8 | There seems to be no particular difficulty with exigo , unless it is that it takes the form not of a request ( like the wordings in Gaius ) but of an instruction . |
9 | It is necessarily of the same quality as the data used to support managerial control , because it is that data , used for a different purpose ; and because the data is of a type already in currency , its use needs no special explanation or defence . |
10 | There is doubt as to whether he is that " William " for whom Rolle wrote , at the end of his life , the Latin treatise , Emendatio Vitae , translated into English in the sixteenth century . |
11 | Whether it is that nowadays people are less interested in playing games as between author and reader , or whether it is that the human liking for games-playing has been transferred to other fields I do not know . |
12 | Whether it is that nowadays people are less interested in playing games as between author and reader , or whether it is that the human liking for games-playing has been transferred to other fields I do not know . |
13 | I in particular , bearing in mind the point that er Mr i is making , that er newts seem to be as it were very choosy in where they er go , bearing in mind the existence of at least three other ponds in Skelton , I would like to know whe how er why it is or whether it is that newts are only found in this pond , and whether or not er the the survey has shown anything in either of er in any of the other ponds . |
14 | The necessary inference from such a principle as his is that the interpreters of law should be the.ones to define the rights of individuals and to trace the bounds of legitimate government over them . |
15 | … the cliché is not necessarily just something banal , in the sense that it occurs frequently , though it is that too : a cliché is a convenient falsification . |
16 | Clear as it is that the terms of intra-bloc trade deteriorated from the USSR 's point of view in the 1970s , the issue deserves to be treated with a degree of wariness . |
17 | It is , then , because he is explaining differences and resemblances as he is that Darwin , in 1838 , needs a theory of purely opportunistic adaptive change in changing conditions , a theory making no developmentalist assumption as to a preferred direction that life will take provided it can go on at all . |