Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [that] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | Trent is not alone among regions ; it is merely that Trent does not conceal its statistics . |
2 | It is only that people have lost the secret . ’ |
3 | Head to visitor : " The purpose of school uniform is so that pupils have a pride in belonging to the school . " |
4 | Not one candidate in a hundred gives an answer comparable with this ; students regularly fail to consider what it is exactly that A suspects . |
5 | The assumption here is that ‘ when [ a driver ] happens to feel subjective risk or fear he often tends immediately to eliminate this feeling by certain behavioural changes ’ ( Summala , 1976 , p.239 ) , a major cause of accidents is thus that drivers have too high a ‘ subjective risk threshold ’ . |
6 | It is not that writers invaded universities . |
7 | It is not that boys go out on a Saturday night looking for milk bottles or other things to smash . |
8 | It is not that Jesus viewed women with ambivalence , but his emphasis on the superior value of the spiritual may have placed women more than men in an ambivalent relationship to the divine . |
9 | The keys of old harpsichords are indeed often seen to be hollowed ; however , what this suggests is not that Handel had been assiduously practising on it for many years , but rather that ( being at least loo years old when Hawkins saw it ) it had never had the keys replated. 19th-century scholars were intrigued by this tale , and more than a century after Handel 's death embarked on the quest to rediscover the instrument . |
10 | We all think it wrong to inflict pain gratuitously , but our reason for obeying this principle is not that others do . |
11 | But the problem is not that Britain has lost its empire . |
12 | The problem is not that parents want to spike the afternoon but that they do not think . |
13 | It is not that Egyptians have found a sudden enthusiasm for Islamic fundamentalism ; a majority probably resents the terrorism that has chopped tourism in half . |
14 | The really depressing thing about the Middle East is not that outsiders have treated it badly , which is the tedious Arab refrain , but that there is so little outsiders can do to save it from its future troubles . |
15 | The important truth about this story is not that Zacchaeus had a change of heart as though he had suddenly decided that the way back to God was through good works of charity . |
16 | It is not that librarians had no practice in the classification and cataloguing of non-book materials . |
17 | This , teachers and educational technologists will always happily agree , is the librarian 's professional job , and what surprises people is not that librarians classify and catalogue but that they sometimes believe they know something about the contents of their books and AV items , offer advice on quality and relevance , and have pronounced views on how they would like their libraries to be used . |
18 | It is not that librarians did not know , nor that they did not care . |
19 | The problem is not that people change but the ease and rapidity with which they change . |
20 | It is not that people need to change or be ‘ cured ’ ; it is that they need to pursue their thoughts to their logical conclusion and from there make decisions on the basis of what they have discovered about themselves . |
21 | The reason HP is rated ‘ difficult to arrange ’ by more people than other credit types is not that people think it would be more difficult to arrange , but that people generally were quicker to apply any comments to it presumably because it has a more prominent image for them . |
22 | Let me stress again that the shame is not that people have doubts , but that they are ashamed of them . |
23 | It is not that cats do not enjoy all the aforementioned nocturnal pleasures , it is that nightlife is too dangerous for them . |
24 | The impression you get in the book is not that Freud had erm some animosity against Moses the way he had against Woodrow Wilson , he was quite open about it in the Woodrow Wilson book , but that Freud is an intelligent erm believer in science , who nevertheless takes religion very seriously because of its psychological truth . |
25 | What is most damaging to Christianity is not that Christians doubt but that there seems to be so little open discussion and understanding of doubt . |
26 | For , as the report went on to show , the problem is not that manufacturers employ too few people , but that the few people whom they do employ produce much less than their counterparts elsewhere in the world . |
27 | Gunn says his old boss is not dour , it is just that people misread his temperament . |
28 | The obvious two are Kevin Keegan — he 'd be crap … he 's just a jumped up little Geordie who still has n't shown he can produce a really imaginative team ; and Glen Hoddle — now , hed be my choice … why ? because he 's young , has the respect of the players , would introduce the concept of playing football into the national team ( after all , if you look at the individual skill level of English players it 's as good as just about anywhere in the world … it 's just that managers have refused to let them play ) . |
29 | well it 's just that Andrew had to you know , he , he , did n't , he d did n't said it , did n't say it in any very , you know , he said it very |
30 | It 's just that Stephen 's been rooting about in boxes . |