Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [be] [that] [pron] [am/are] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My experience has been that there are a great many people in industrial and other commercial enterprises who want to have insight , and indeed already possess it , into their roles in industry and to contrast these with their roles as citizens . |
| 2 | What the text says is that we are to have faith as a grain of mustard seed . |
| 3 | ‘ The trouble with the traditional with-profits endowments and deferred annuities which most school fees planners use is that they are inflexible , with heavy penalties for withdrawal , and the charges are high , ’ Walker says of the schemes . |
| 4 | ‘ One of my problems over the last few years has been that I 'm amazingly optimistic — really stupid in fact ! |
| 5 | One of the things that some knitters say is that there are not many Form Programs published . |
| 6 | The traditional ‘ trade-off ’ for the secure tenure of senior British civil servants has been that they are anonymous and politically impartial . |
| 7 | My claim has been that there are parallels to be observed between the theism of the Western religious traditions and that of the main Eastern religious tradition . |
| 8 | The primary objection to UDCs has been that they are not directly accountable to local authorities or local people in their areas . |
| 9 | All that Montefiore 's example shows is that there are circumstances in which it is unfair to act neutrally , where there are not even prima facie reasons to be neutral . |
| 10 | The price intellectuals pay is that they are dependent on the government for both professional and financial recognition , since ‘ the most important definition of an intellectual is that he should be recognised by the government as such ’ ( Riding : 1986 , p. 428 ) . |
| 11 | What the ‘ Phillips curve as adjustment mechanism ’ approach suggests is that there are competitive forces at work serving to eliminate initial excess demand , positive or negative , in the labour market . |
| 12 | The first thing to remember is that you are a student- that is , one who studies . |
| 13 | When buying leather corals , the main thing to check is that there are no bacterial infections , which appear generally at sites of mechanical damage , as areas of greyish slime . |
| 14 | A common observation has been that there are soils in which some diseases never seem to occur and it is presumed that microorganisms that are antagonistic to pathogens naturally occur in these ‘ suppressive soils ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |