Example sentences of "[is] that [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it 's that Vibes question again . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's that SAS training ’ the duty officer went on . |
| 3 | That 's that Jim Rose Feeling for you … |
| 4 | The point , however , is that Toennies based his analysis not on the difference between peasant community and urbanised society , but between the old-fashioned town and the capitalist city , ‘ essentially a commercial town and , insofar as commerce dominates its productive labour , a factory town ’ . |
| 5 | The only thing that is certain is that Albie died in debt . |
| 6 | What he does n't seem to know is that Albie had been talking to Carmichael . |
| 7 | What has not yet been conclusively demonstrated is that birds learn to avoid brightly coloured sickening prey more quickly than equivalent but duller coloured prey . |
| 8 | The next possibility is that Stalin had planned a ‘ near miss ’ followed by a purge . |
| 9 | In Britain the assumption is that citizens have no right to official information , and receive only what the government chooses to tell them . |
| 10 | The answer is that Morrissey has never quite achieved ten such desirable plaudits , even with his Smiths output chucked in . |
| 11 | Other news is that Rohan have re-designed their full-length salopettes which were once leaders in the field . |
| 12 | One reason is that IBM backs its unofficial motto — THINK — with action . |
| 13 | So , to prove IBM is still on the right track , Graham attests one of the biggest industry myths is that IBM gives huge discounts on its mainframes . |
| 14 | Fifth , listen to the real customers — and not just the information systems managers of IBM 's 10 top mainframe customers — part of the problem is that IBM pays too much attention to their needs and not enough to what 's going on elsewhere , says Smith . |
| 15 | The advocate depute , Roderick Macdonald , said : ‘ One of the more unsavoury features of this case is that Badenoch recruited a series of sub-dealers from among the youth of the area who were not previously involved in drugs . ’ |
| 16 | One of the bizarre things I find today is that England does n't really like traders . |
| 17 | What I find strange is that England have got nothing to do with our tour of Ireland and Wales , yet they get the big game and all the money . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | One difference between the two views is that Keynesians believe money is a close substitute for financial assets , whereas the monetarists argue that money is not a particularly close substitute for any specific range of assets . |
| 20 | What is being alleged here is that NBFIs create assets which are in some close measure substitutes for money and which have their own advantages , interest perhaps or long-term capital gain , which money does not have . |
| 21 | The great contrast , however , is that debentures secured by charges on the company 's property throw up problems regarding the priority between conflicting charges . |
| 22 | The other is that efforts to forge a European foreign and security policy ( loudly backed in principle by the Germans ) may be doomed . |
| 23 | One possibility is that women tend to be less involved than men in formal and public speech events where the appropriate or customary style is especially explicit , where logical connections are made on the surface and where information and argument are more important than interpersonal solidarity . |
| 24 | ‘ The assumption is that women like to be desired by many men . |
| 25 | If what the Award achieves is that women know that these options are open to them , then it 's a good thing . |
| 26 | What he did not mean is that women lack rationality ; they can and do deliberate . |
| 27 | The difference is that women collude in their subjection . |
| 28 | The rhetoric of the Right in recent years , is that women have acquired rights and opportunities in the public world , especially in the labour market , but this , it is alleged has been at the expense of their families . |
| 29 | What is happening is that women have shown their competence in practice and this has helped to change machista attitudes . |
| 30 | A second possibility is that women talking to other women can leave many things more implicit because they assume a great deal of shared knowledge and cooperation . |