Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [verb] [be] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What the right-wingers are saying is that we will have the trade unions ' money but we will not give 'em the right to vote . |
| 2 | Supporters of the third principle may claim that the reason rape is prohibited is that its perpetration deprives the raped of their chances to live according to their conception of the good . |
| 3 | There are many arguments as to which strategy is best ( de Nevers et al. , 1977 ; Wall , 1976b ) but increasingly the conclusion being reached is that it is possible to make use of the advantages of two or more strategies . |
| 4 | The reason so many things are delayed is that they have to be perfect . |
| 5 | The specific point that Nagel is making is that there is no way of justifying the conditions of choice in the original position except from the point of view of a certain conception of the good . |
| 6 | What Jesus is saying is that there is no need for marriage at the resurrection . |
| 7 | The point Jesus was making was that it was all around them and they had n't noticed ! |
| 8 | The one point on which Mr Golyadkin and Double were agreed was that there is nobody like God , but it follows pat and false that if a man has nowhere to go God will look after him . |
| 9 | An and he 's taking up what might , we might want to or , or what could be portrayed as restorationist as being revolutionary where I , I 'm not sure that it fully was a revolution er a and I you see what Mao is saying is that there would have been a class basis for all of this , they were doing it as a class of peasant , they might not have been , they might have been doing it just for restorationist purposes . |
| 10 | And what Claudia was to find is that our century has proved that the irrational and the immaterial have as strong a hold as ever . |
| 11 | My Lords , I I I do n't want to intervene in family quarrels , but er surely the point that the Noble Lord , Lord was making was that there is no section er two A i in in force a at at the present time . |
| 12 | But really what their over-revved egos are betraying is that their boudoir success has all the acceleration of a Sinclair C5 . |
| 13 | We are told that " the reason why constituencies of about five members are recommended is that they form communities [ ? ] where electors may be expected to have sufficient personal knowledge of the candidates ' . |
| 14 | The trouble with talking about yourself the way Stuart is doing is that it makes people jump to conclusions . |
| 15 | What the doctor is saying is that he had to continue treatment , because it was right to do so as a matter of public policy . |
| 16 | The reason that the Dalai Lama was included is that it will be an Inter-faith meeting . |
| 17 | And part of the reason of course the dialect is gone is that we unconsciously sort of translate what we 're going to say into good English so that we 're understood . |
| 18 | In effect , what The Times was saying was that it knew what the ‘ real ’ stories were and that only dictators prevented such stories from being told . |
| 19 | What that exhibition in fact is doing is that it 's not saying here 's a new spirit in painting , it 's saying that we the organizers , having not bothered to show you these things in the sixties and seventies , will now allow you to see them in the eighties , and we will pretend there 's a new spirit because we think it 's good for the art world to have new fashions , new movements , or at least something new going on that will produce some kind of emotional pressure . |
| 20 | What Lord Wilberforce was saying was that one examines the content and not the form of a restraint and if there appears 'some quite independent purpose " behind the restraint , ie a purpose outside the essence of the agreement , then the doctrine applies . |