Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [is] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I am suggesting is that Spenser 's texts offer glimpses of issues which Elizabethan culture found awkward to confront directly — a belief in the precariousness of its civilisation given the existence of savagery ( exemplified by other customs , baser classes , other religions ) confronting a self-defined orderly minority . |
| 2 | Really if we , if we 're not on top of these things , then what we 're saying is that Jehovah is like saying to a high squad who lays out a beautiful meal for us and saying well there you are , it 's yours for the taking and you saying well I do n't feel like that today I 'll just have some chips down the road . |
| 3 | What they 're saying is that Colin was purely administration . |
| 4 | ‘ So what you 're saying is that Bernard 's the only person who knows when the hit on Mobuto 's going to take place ? ’ |
| 5 | But what you 're saying is that ideas , if acted upon , do the opposite . |
| 6 | I mean effectively what you 're saying is that York has got a capacity for about another three thousand three hundred dwellings ? |
| 7 | The message they are getting is that Italy is the real target . |
| 8 | nor reproduc duc tu tu tology , but what I am saying is that secrets store up trouble , and when doctors are |
| 9 | What I am saying is that Mills was one of the MI6 officers with responsibility for WIN . |
| 10 | So what I 'm suggesting is that A is in fact your address and telephone section , B should be for your goals , and strategic plans , C , D , E , and F , er , would be for your specific functional areas . |
| 11 | What must be realised is that teachers are rarely confident or certain enough to present themselves as ‘ progressives ’ or ‘ traditionalists ’ . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The most that can be done is that B may allow C to use his name to claim the money . |
| 16 | There used to be er a fish shop and er that used to be called 's that fish shop did . |
| 17 | What can not be doubted is that Unionists , who had drawn level with the Liberals in 1910 , had made up more ground on them since . |
| 18 | What I 'm saying is that Iraq is an independent state , an independent sovereign state , and whoever attacks Iraq to change the government or to destroy Iraq , then they should expect that Iraq is not going to be an easy bite to swallow . |
| 19 | No I 'm not ignoring them but what I 'm saying is that problems that people are genuinely concerned about of dust or noise are unlikely to have an impact at a distance of two miles . |
| 20 | So the point I 'm making is that offspring will be prepared to make sacrifices under those conditions , where erm , the R is greater than C. But parents will want offspring to make sacrifices , wherever B is greater than C , and the parent is not concerned with the discount parameter R , but agreed on relatedness , because parents are equally related through their offspring . |
| 21 | Okay Linfield and Bangor are probably two of the best teams in Irish football but the point I 'm making is that Carrick 's team deficiencies were blatantly exposed for all to see . |
| 22 | The point I am making is that Poland was like some living body that had all the life blood sucked out of it at the end of the war . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ The point I am making is that Paul is not the only young player around with that confidence . |
| 24 | So the point I am making is that terms like reproductive success are purely quantitative , they 're wholly objective and scientific . |
| 25 | What is being said is that God 's love makes its home in human beings and that it seeks to be replicated and brought to completion within them . |
| 26 | The most simple reason for something being buried is that people have buried it , and domestic waste is probably the most common example of deliberate burial . |
| 27 | What is being suggested is that dreams in themselves have no absolute meaning or import — so that the idea of analysing them in terms of standard sets of criteria becomes a nonsense — but that the reaction of the dreamer to his or her dream can be very significant . |
| 28 | For what is being implied is that graduates should be able to internalize the whole universe of knowledge , because in theory all knowledge is interconnected and critique can draw upon any domain of knowledge in the act of placing or evaluating a discipline . |
| 29 | What is happening is that women have shown their competence in practice and this has helped to change machista attitudes . |
| 30 | 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 . |