Example sentences of "[is] [that] [pron] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem with any efficiency drive in government is that what some people regard as a mere means to an end , others regard as an end in itself . |
| 2 | But his shadow , Mr Gerald Kaufman , said : ‘ The fact is that what this Government has adopted is the policy of the three o'clock knock by police . ’ |
| 3 | The special feature of the two Unidroit Conventions is that they each deal with a transaction involving two distinct contracts . |
| 4 | The problem for the Thatcher Government is that its own diagnosis of the crisis of state authority constantly impelled it towards intervention whether in the internal affairs of trade unions , the spending priorities of local authorities , the curricula of schools and universities , or the patterns of family behaviour . |
| 5 | McGegan 's problem ( if it can be considered one ) is that his own orchestra , Philharmonia Baroque , is based in Los Angeles , and is therefore too expensive to bring annually to Göttingen . |
| 6 | What has happened to me in the group is that my own perceptions of myself and others have been modified by group norms , which may only be mine marginally . |
| 7 | ‘ But the fact is that my own mother and father lived in Innes Place in their first house after they were married . |