Example sentences of "[verb] [be] that [pron] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The primary objection to UDCs has been that they are not directly accountable to local authorities or local people in their areas . |
| 2 | But my argument has been that it is not difficult to defend something roughly resembling the status quo rather than being bludgeoned into a guilty conscience by accepting that one is a covert elitist or racist . |
| 3 | Working within this international world it is , of course , a great help if one speaks several languages , but my own experience has been that it is not the ability to speak another language , rare enough this essential tool of international business is amongst British people , but the experience of having lived and worked with people in another country which is the decisive factor . |
| 4 | One of the major criticisms of the battery cage has been that it is so small that the hens have no room to move or to perform their natural behaviour patterns . |
| 5 | ‘ One of my problems over the last few years has been that I 'm amazingly optimistic — really stupid in fact ! |
| 6 | And it 's the role of the plants is to bring new ideas to the group , , change the approach to problems and the strengths that a plant has is that they 're often independent , with high intelligence . |
| 7 | And what seems to be happening is that we 're gradually remembering people we know in other regions and |
| 8 | What has always impressed me enormously about the office bearers and team members I have over the years got to know is that they are never judgemental about those they help , and that , like the members of RNLI boat crews , they go out in all weathers to seek to save life and/or to assist the injured . |
| 9 | What has always impressed me enormously about the office bearers and team members I have over the years got to know is that they are never judgemental about those they help , and that , like the members of RNLI boat crews , they go out in all weathers to seek to save life and/or to assist the injured . |
| 10 | What has always impressed me enormously about the office bearers and team members I have over the years got to know is that they are never judgemental about those they help , and that , like the members of RNLI boat crews , they go out in all weathers to seek to save life and/or to assist the injured . |
| 11 | ‘ My dear Wilson , ’ he said , ‘ all you need to know is that it is not yet come . |
| 12 | All I do know is that we 're very conscious a great deal of money 's been spent by the Council and by the Trust to try and make the place outside more inviting those tubs been put there er they been planted etc there 's a lot of litter there we 've put litter bins there there 's taxi rank there there 's lot 's of things been put there I think the problem is it is n't the people who do that I mean it 's the people who actually do the litter and it 's quite clear that we do go out we do tidy up but it happens and it 's a case of balance of what we can do and what you ca n't do but we do work at it I can assure you . |
| 13 | Yeah , I said yeah I am , I said I 'm gon na drive up and see , so we got in , went up to Wendy 's , you could n't see through the door Pen , Penny and Kev said well we 'll drive round as well , I said well she 's had us up and down , cos one minute she was quite strong then the next she could n't cope , I said Wendy all I want you to ever know is that I 'm there , if ever you want me phone me , I do n't care whether it 's middle of the night , middle of the morning or whatever , so she says alright , anyway Penny went up , she said she could n't see anything she thinks she 's gone a bed and then me and Rudy went up , it must have been quarter to one cos I took him for a little walk and I got out the car and walked round the back and then , I could see her curtains were open and I could see a light on , so I went round the front and I shouted through the letter box , Wen it 's only me I 've come to wish you a happy new year , let's hope next year will be better than this one and she come to the door and she was broken hearted |
| 14 | Well I think , I 've got ta say that I think it might be ha it might be working better now with there but when not there and we go to and say can you tell me where X Y Z is , the response you 're gon na get is I 'm sorry I do n't know and the reason she wo n't know is that she 's never bothered to ask because she 's not talking so it 's okay while there but it wo n't be when she 's not because I 've had that , sorry I do n't know . |
| 15 | One of the things that some knitters say is that there are not many Form Programs published . |
| 16 | What she did not know was that it was not so much that the work was difficult , but that there was so very much of it , and all tiring . |
| 17 | The only disadvantage of this method of study he found was that he was never able to master the Biblical languages of Greek and Hebrew . |
| 18 | What I had n't considered was that she was much bigger than me and that I was n't strong enough to keep both her and the bicycle upright : inevitably she lost her balance and fell heavily on the road with me and the bicycle on top of her . |
| 19 | Forster observed in 1874 , ‘ the only belief much felt is that we are not and will not be papists . ’ |
| 20 | The most important fact to remember is that it is highly contagious and one case can very easily develop into a large outbreak unless prompt and very strict isolation of any case is done . |
| 21 | One final point to remember is that it is very easy to overtrain the arms . |
| 22 | An important thing to remember is that it is very hard to get HIV . |
| 23 | The message we receive is that we are not attractive and will not be provided with props to make us so . |
| 24 | What the evidence does show is that he was genuinely fond of his new wife and that she probably died of a heart attack . |
| 25 | What , however , a large number of studies of the effects of regulation do show is that there are frequently unintended consequences of regulation which impose a cost on society that must be weighed against the expected benefits of the regulation . |
| 26 | What should be said is that there is still a most definite need for research in some neglected , technical areas , but more particularly in integrating the social and economic factors as they occur in a local situation . |
| 27 | ‘ One of the things that has been said is that it 's actually very difficult to get a purchaser for your shares on the USM even though in theory it 's an open market . |
| 28 | THOMPSON : ‘ All I 've just said is that it was not a good enough explanation of what I got and I do n't think anybody has been told , not only to the media out there , myself who is the most important one . |
| 29 | The only difference between what Daniel had to endure and what my children have endured is that I am still alive and have plucked up the courage to divorce my husband . |
| 30 | Yeah , because the point that 's being made is that it 's only the flower of the rose which has all these properties , it 's not the whole bush itself , presumably . |