Example sentences of "is [adv] [that] [noun] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is only that people have lost the secret . ’ |
| 2 | Head to visitor : " The purpose of school uniform is so that pupils have a pride in belonging to the school . " |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But the problem is not that Britain has lost its empire . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It is not that librarians had no practice in the classification and cataloguing of non-book materials . |
| 10 | Let me stress again that the shame is not that people have doubts , but that they are ashamed of them . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It is here that efforts have been made to open up resources to working-class communities and/or to provide access into educational institutions . |
| 13 | It is n't that God has hoodwinked us into believing , as if rationality were the bait and mystery the hook . |