Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [is] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the few things about the penal system that almost everyone agrees on is that England and Wales have an alarmingly high ( and most of the time rapidly rising ) number of people in prison . |
| 2 | The one thing all readers are likely to agree on is that Derrida is a very difficult writer , whether he is read in French or in English translation . |
| 3 | What I feel I know now is that God does n't intervene . |
| 4 | One of the points which might be made here is that Labov sets out explicitly to provide a model for handling communities not known to the investigator . |
| 5 | If ideology is the science of ideas , of broad metaphysical or abstract speculation , then the best that can be said here is that Odilon Redon pursued a private visionary agenda . |
| 6 | But what happens then is that people stop telling you things . |
| 7 | What these studies also show however is that parties are careful not to make specific pledges on matters of central importance , such as the economy or unemployment . |
| 8 | Also worth noting here is that Hankamer ( 1977 ) has put forward the possibility of competing grammars for a body of linguistic data as a force inducing syntactic change . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | What Firth is pointing out is that sentences as artificial constructs for exemplifying linguistic forms do not meet the same conditions of making sense as do expressions naturally used in the service of communication in context . |
| 11 | The impression that the being would take home is that Earthlings are making reasonable progress in rudimentary aspects of space science and technology ; that the world is keen to spread the benefits of such studies from the industrialised to the developing world ; and that all work in space science and technology follows the lead set by farsighted government bureaucrats and politicians . |
| 12 | Therefore , the condition for that balance of restraint from which we started out is that W < D , that is the value of winning the resource must be less than the cost of injury . |
| 13 | The way I and others who witnessed the incident feel now is that Ian Woosnam 's game is well over par . |
| 14 | One of the bizarre things I find today is that England does n't really like traders . |
| 15 | In my view , what should happen here is that cats should not be allowed to roam around in places where they could have a dramatic adverse effect on populations of animals , even though it is better for the cat . |
| 16 | The most important thing to understand here is that people try to re-establish some sort of control over their situation . |
| 17 | As police search for a motive for the killing , one possibility they have n't ruled out is that Mr Miles could have disturbed a burglar . |
| 18 | For the one characteristic organization theorists ( Blau and Scott 1962 ; Etzioni 1961 ; Parsons 1963 ) agree on is that corporations , like all organizations , are primarily orientated towards the achievement of a particular goal — profit — at least in the long run . |
| 19 | The message which must be drummed home is that tests and exercises must be relevant to the job and the results should never be used on their own . |
| 20 | and I constantly wonder now is that Robin Harris speaking or is that Mrs Thatcher ? |
| 21 | What Qaddafi means here is that people should not make alliances outside the nation ( just as many Libyans said it is preferable to marry close — for example , to a father 's brother 's child ) . |
| 22 | The view taken here is that parents may not be able to cope , and certainly they will feel this when they first discover that their child is handicapped . |
| 23 | A point worth making here is that patients need to understand from an early stage the meaning of diabetes , that they have diabetes now and that they will always have it . |
| 24 | It seems clear that what has happened here is that Johnson has forgotten about the problem of finding ways of making meaning plain and has shifted to a different lexicographical problem , namely how to provide an exhaustive definition of words so that their entire meaning is made explicit . |
| 25 | What I was trying to say earlier is that Gary Speed IS playing tomorrow . |
| 26 | The principle I work on is that passages of colour are more rewarding than the dot effect . |
| 27 | The first thing that comes through is that Charlie Francis is a very good coach . |
| 28 | Well let's just consider for a moments then this morning , in in some of the ways in which we can be like Pilate the first thing I see here is that Pilate rejected the Lord Jesus Christ although he had tremendous opportunities of doing otherwise . |
| 29 | What one must say however is that people interpreted their awareness of God in terms of the age in which they lived . |