Example sentences of "is [conj] [adj] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | What makes their excessive holidays so wrong is that millions are being forced to take a permanent break from work since they are unemployed . |
| 2 | The general opinion is that Real are tighter in defence , but less interesting and inventive . |
| 3 | And the idea is that that 's the midpoint and there 's a one to ten scale going each way . |
| 4 | So the erm but as , but as Katherine reminds us , I mean if , if that 's the kind of life our emotional parameters are my , my guess is that that , is that that 's probably the truth , certainly a persuasive argument . |
| 5 | But house er erm what is that that 's the footpath people is n't it , they always come and repair things if they 're told , at least they sh , but obviously they have to work in collaboration with the farmers , er concerned . |
| 6 | Whose is that that 's like that ? |
| 7 | I mean there is erm we 've s we 've stopped there let's go working from this way S is that that 's that that 's that . |
| 8 | So all I 'm saying is that that 's what we should expect to see . |
| 9 | Every two erm is that that 's one one fifty |
| 10 | Well the argument is that if you receive say a mobility allowance , and if we are laying on transport to get you to a Day Centre and back , maybe five days a week , then the argument is that that 's a fair levy against that allowance . |
| 11 | ‘ The politest thing one can say ’ , he said , ‘ is that that is the wisdom of hindsight by people who are not trained to know better in that area ’ . |
| 12 | Erm I have already referred sir to the investigations which are proceeding with regard to the ability to erm , as it were , encourage er this er amphibian to go to other ponds , and I would again call your attention to the state of the knowledge we have at the present time , which is that that is not possible . |
| 13 | As for the primacy of the police , the view of Ministers is that that is not in question . |
| 14 | The trouble is that that is not easily obtained . |
| 15 | But the harsh reality is that that is not the case . |
| 16 | What I 'm suggesting is is that that is perhaps something that the panel should dwell on in their deliberations and their advice to the county . |
| 17 | Erm , Mr Brighton was was critical of the County Council in just using the residual method to determine the size of the new settlement , er and then in in backing up that justification erm referred to work that is included in in Barton Willmore 's proof , I 've I have read this survey work quite carefully , and my understanding of it is is that erm by un undertaking a survey of settlements in the county , they have established , albeit f f f for information purposes only , a population threshold for a particular type of service , erm , in in the North Yorkshire context , erm the implication I I understand from that is is that that is being used to justify a fourteen hundred figure or or whatever it is to achieve the level of services that would would be required for a a balanced integrated community to use the words for the guidance . |
| 18 | So , what you have to argue is that that is not a confession . |
| 19 | But the fact of the matter is that that is n't Government policy . |
| 20 | My information is that that is the correct way er th the correct authority to which to look . |
| 21 | Well the obvious explanation is that that is the point that our modern hero , the connecting thread that runs through the whole design , can have none of the grandeur of the ancient one . |
| 22 | erm And the reason I 've given you that one is that that was drawn in 1675 by David Loggen , and it 's a very , very accurate one , and it 's rather easier to see some of the places I shall be talking about , so I think it 's a nice one for you to have close up . |
| 23 | What these legislative reforms seem to be suggesting is that all is basically well with the traditional model where the directors of the company manage the company but are supervised in that task by the shareholders who , if given the requisite powers , can be relied upon to ensure that directors do not use their powers for their own purposes . |
| 24 | My only regret here is that all are from North American authors and thus quote largely North American examples . |
| 25 | When building a corpus of text the general maxim is that bigger is better . |
| 26 | The second point to note about the Ellis and Bowerman surveys is that neither was concerned with cases of really outstanding creativity , of the kind that have been the subject of individual biographical analyses . |
| 27 | Of these 21 , or over half , had considered an MBO in the last 12 months , 15 of these actually started and the result to date is that nine were completed and three are still in progress . |
| 28 | What the following thrillers have in common is that each is a rattling good read , and together they are the cream ( 1939 , as will be seen , being a particularly creamy year ) of their genre , leading you on to other delights . |
| 29 | This hardly looks the same principle , but the connection lies in the fact that for Kant the sense in which every person is an end is that each is a rational agent who , as such , should be conceived as potentially cooperating with me in settling upon and living by universal principles of behaviour taken as binding on all rational agents . |
| 30 | The real change is that many are doing it alone . |