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

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1 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 .
2 The books tell you that badgers love peanuts , but what they do n't tell you is that a plastic peanut packet is likely to go off in your pocket with a high-decibel rustle that will send any self-respecting badger right back underground .
3 What they do n't tell you is that the price of those meals may be artificially inflated .
4 What I really wrote to tell you is that the Ballet Club Committee says that the Scarlet Woman must be changed — so please do two new designs for me to choose from — and help me !
5 All I want to obtain from you is that the information the , that it will not be excluded around about the end , as soon as they take place .
6 Er what is necessary for me to also convey to you is that the theme that I was given today was one of forgiveness .
7 He just reads their mail without them knowing it and the thing that would really appeal to him is that the companies he sets his sights on are actually paying him for delivering it ! ’
8 What Odd-Knut has not told him is that the water under the ice is pressurized , and it wells up out of the hole .
9 The best answer that I can give him is that the fact that Mr. Thorpe had available to him the escape route of appealing to a health authority elsewhere in the country meant that the process was not carried to its conclusion in north Devon .
10 The former chairman of the Independent Appeals Tribunal said to me recently ‘ I wonder why it is that no benefit starts from the premises ‘ What can we do to help ? ’ but always seems to be ‘ How can we stop the bastards getting away with it ? ' ’ — coarse , but true !
11 Essentially , it is that no biologist imagines that complex structures arise in a single step .
12 The control which the withholding of love gives to a parent emphasises how tremendously important it is that a child should be genuinely loved in the first place .
13 The more serious the incident , the more likely it is that a judge 's professional neutrality and independence , as well as his legal training in taking evidence and establishing the facts , will be sought to command public confidence .
14 rhetorical question is , you know is it is that a question you wanted to try to answer or are you erm
15 James 's aim is the psychological one of explaining how it is that a person is able to locate a stimulus on the surface of his body .
16 It is that a person who takes another 's car ‘ can escape liability to tougher sentences only if he or she can show , on the balance of probabilities , that either the aggravating event occurred before he or she committed [ the basic s. 12 offence ] , or that he or she was not present at the relevant time . ’
17 The second defining characteristic of compatibility guarantees a genuine relationship of sense : it is that a pair of compatibles must have a common superordinate .
18 Bumble-bees do not have advanced knowledge of aeronautical science , yet some extremely complicated maths is required to explain why it is that a bumble-bee can fly .
19 Could somebody please explain to me why it is that a project that was always highly speculative and which now looks like a near disaster should have been so profitable for investors ?
20 The problem with it is that a lot of people are asymptomatic and you do n't know whom may or may not be carrying Jardea .
21 We have to produce some account of how it is that a belief can achieve this status and play this special role .
22 It is that a pupil decides what he will , or will not , consent to do .
23 Jennie explained how crucial it is that a rider can use his aids independently of each other .
24 A duty is something black and white : once we know what it is that a body has a duty to do and what it actually did , we can say either that the authority has performed its duty or that it has not .
25 In general , it appears that the more complex the level of stimulus processing required , the more likely it is that a difference between the ears will be revealed with monaural presentation .
26 The appearance of a weaning-trauma in early agricultural cultures explains the paradox of why it is that a loss of the ideal mother — that is , a frustration — leads to an over-involvement with her .
27 When you come to think about it , how amazing it is that a singer whose recording career lasted only seven years ( where Decca is concerned ) could produce enough material to fill ten CDs even allowing for the addition of much off-the-air material , and excluding Das Lied von der Erde , the Klemperer Kindertotenlieder and Mahler 's Second , and Brahms 's Liebesliederwalzer , the last three just issued on three further discs in Decca 's Historic series .
28 This question can not be answered without knowing just what it is that a manager does .
29 Neither of them was capable of searching out any fairy-tale kink in the more drab theories of evolution which might explain how it is that a frog taken ( however reluctantly ) into the soft bed of a princess can be changed overnight back into a prince .
30 These two tasks are inextricably interwoven : if advisers fail to establish what it is that a client wants to know because of poor interviewing , then they will not be able to supply the correct information even if it is available .
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