Example sentences of "[noun] [be] that [pron] [verb] to " in BNC.

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1 The real importance of the Christian religion is that it claims to be true irrespective of how I regard it .
2 The result is that we try to ‘ give pupils confidence ’ by providing simple tasks with little or no challenge .
3 This went smoothly and is a great improvement but in order to create the compressed drive and double the hard disk capacity the SuperStor program took my hard disk ( drive C : ) and seemed to create a compressed drive D : it then swaps drive D and drive C so that the compressed drive is now C : The result is that I seem to be locked out of my old drive D in Rom which has one or two useful bits on — like a hardware check program .
4 The irony is that he referred to the mutual relevance of science and religion in at least three different respects , each of which magnified , rather than resolved , his difficulties .
5 Mildew is not so very difficult to stop in the early stages , and there are several fungicides that will give it a severe check — all the chemical manufacturers have their own products and trade names which , like everything else , are constantly being improved and changed — but by far the most important point to bear in mind is that it has to be hit early and repeatedly .
6 The problem with device drivers is that they have to be installed in your CONFIG.SYS file , and it is usually helpful to have an install routine guide you through the process — lord knows , just about every other program you come across these days insists on writing to CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT .
7 ‘ The first criterion is that you have to be big : once you 're big there is something to work on and mobility , strength , athleticism , agility , determination and not least pride can be developed .
8 The value of the Survey 's findings on book condition is that they relate to material actually issued to readers , and do not simply describe books stored on the shelves .
9 But what remains important about Barthes 's substantive work is that he points to cultural phenomena in the everyday realm that are ( or were ) regarded as insignificant — they are , he reveals , laden with meaning and social and political significance .
10 Obese people tend to have higher levels of insulin than those of normal weight , and the disadvantage of insulin is that it tends to further encourage the body to deposit rather than burn up fat .
11 The only real conclusion that we can draw from such an exercise is that there appears to be no simple relationship between population and the wealth of a nation-state .
12 The how we come to Jesus , the why 's we come to him are not the important thing , the real issue is that we come to him .
13 I think the other issue is that we have to be defending erm , the family planning centres that are being closed down , like the forty or fifty in Glasgow , the thirteen in er Edinburgh , th the east of Scotland
14 So , also there 's something to be said for , I mean , a basic technical thing about the type is that you want to be able to tell the letter apart .
15 The response of the committee was that they adhered to their previous decision to allow them to do so only once a quarter .
16 One of the reasons for owning rather than borrowing textbooks is that they need to be marked to get the best out of them .
17 Perhaps the most interesting point which arises from McCullough 's article is that it needed to be said .
18 Mm , see one of the dangers of just reading the bible is that you have to be careful you do n't fall into the pitfall of just reading it when if you do then it 'll all look as if it 's pointing towards the only way out is heaven
19 The s the point I would make is that first of all I do n't accept that twelve thousand seven hundred is er a tenable figure but that , probably the more important point is that there has to be a policy response , and a policy response to this issue demands that there is at least some response to the mi to the level of migration er you know my my my view has been put forward very clearly about that , but I would simply make make the point for the record that even accepting one hundred percent migration , there is no statistical case for a new settlement .
20 ‘ The point is that I want to be near you . ’
21 A complication was that it had to be reduced in a complicated , controlled manner or the electricity grid throughout Ulster would be burned out and would require a long time to replace after the strike would be over .
22 The important point was that there seemed to be no way of determinately reversing this higher-to-lower translation unless the target high-level language was already known .
23 The wartime government had promised the troops they would return to ‘ homes fit for heroes to live in ’ , but the sick joke was that you had to be a hero to survive in them .
24 The unique and dangerous features of the listeria bacterium are that it appears to be transmitted through meat or even vegetables grown in areas fertilised by the manure of infected animals .
25 The major problem with the QWERTY keyboard is that it needs to be learnt .
26 Apart from the obvious point that it fails to produce uniformity its principal defect is that it leads to the application of a particular national law which is likely to have been devised for domestic transactions and may well be ill-suited to those which are international in character .
27 The good new s is that they go to the Ranfurly Library .
28 The danger with these time-removed antecedents is that they come to be regarded as irremediable causes ( which they are ) .
29 Thinking about this now , I know that what I was saying in wanting my periods back was that I wanted to be a woman , that I wanted and liked my female body , that my years of confusion and self-dislike were beginning to be over .
30 The trouble with all panspermic theories is that they look to outer space , yet we have no particular reason to believe that life could not have emerged right here on our own world .
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