Example sentences of "is [adv] that [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I certainly will take it up if I get a copy letter , I mean it is obviously that some departments act differently , and I understand that in any case this is only a letter from the secretary , it 's not him , so I mean , I 'm quite happy to take it up if I get the copy of that , and explain that this department act , does rather differently from some of the others . |
| 2 | It is not that such agendas are unresponsive to data but they are not responsive by way of direct testing . |
| 3 | The objection is not that such matters are raised but to the poisonous or venomous manner in which it is done . |
| 4 | As explained above , the proposal of the FRED is not that such expenses be treated as an asset , but rather that they be taken into account in measuring a liability . |
| 5 | The argument here is not that all children should have access to all aspects of the curriculum . |
| 6 | The real grist of Watchdog 's story is not that all fishtanks are dangerous but that there are tanks on the market made from glass that is far too thin . |
| 7 | His worry is not that these errors undermine any of their actual results : ‘ that the principles laid down by mathematicians are true , and their way of deduction from those principles clear and incontestable , we do not deny . ’ |
| 8 | When , in Britain , it is suggested that the policies of the Conservative Government towards local authorities since 1979 raise constitutional questions , what is meant is not that these policies are in any sense illegal , but rather … that they breach hitherto accepted understandings , albeit tacit , as to how relationships between central government and local authorities should be ordered . |
| 9 | It is not that these things are in themselves opposed to religion , but the possessiveness and distractedness which they tend to promote are . |
| 10 | It is not that these writers were necessarily against the idea of a science of society , but they did argue that the idea and practice of social science is not as straightforward as positivism would have us believe . |
| 11 | It is not that these initiatives do not contain good educational practice which is being criticised here ( for they do ) , but rather the way in which they are seen by some as panaceas which can succeed without full professional involvement . |
| 12 | It is not that these judgements should not be made , but that where subjective judgements are made by the teacher she should be aware that this is so and be prepared , not only to give reasons for her judgements , but also to be sufficiently flexible to change them in the light of particular circumstances . |
| 13 | It is not that these issues are being dismissed in terms of their general abstract importance as a way of getting to grips with capitalism as a system . |
| 14 | It is just that some days , and at some times , often in the early hours of the morning , sometimes this is what it feels like ; sometimes it gets me too . |
| 15 | At present , the most plausible interpretation is probably that these forts were centres of royal power intended to enable Harald to control the areas which the Jelling rune stone suggests he had won for himself . |
| 16 | A much more likely explanation of Libet 's findings is simply that all experiences are delayed relative to the stimulus causing them , so that synchronous external events produce synchronous experiences . |
| 17 | The underlying idea is simply that some forms are ‘ genuine ’ and some are not . |
| 18 | It is simply that these conflicts , which once would have been more or less wholly contained within the personality , are now becoming externalized and , indeed , are transforming society . |