Example sentences of "[noun] [is] [that] he [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His real crime is that he is suspected by the Radical Party and militant members of the ruling Socialists ( ex-communists ) of plotting with the army , of which he was the nominal head , to stage a coup . |
| 2 | It appears he took his own life but the truth is that he was murdered . |
| 3 | It is difficult to understand why Clemens Alexandrinus called him a Peripatetic ( Strom. 1.72.4 ) , but perhaps the important point is that he was assigned to a philosophic school at all , because this was quite unusual for a Jew of the second century B.C. Aristobulus quoted Greek writers — authentic or forged — to support the truth of the Bible and the dependence of the Greeks on Jewish wisdom . |
| 4 | It 's a strange journey Paul Weller 's made , but stranger still is that he 's managed to take the greater part of his audience along with him . |
| 5 | It is no secret that Slobodan Milosevic [ the Serbian President ] is psychologically a self-destructive , suicidal type , but the trouble is that he is transferring his suicidal madness onto the nation as a whole . |
| 6 | What he calls the ‘ fancy explanation ’ for this architectural love is that he was baptised in a Romanesque font in the Dorset village of Stoke Abbot , but the reality is that as a student at Durham he was profoundly influenced by the majestic presence of the cathedral : |
| 7 | Now , as one New York dealer put it a week ago , ‘ the word is that he 's cashing in . ’ |
| 8 | I do n't need to spell it out for you but the assumption is that he was going back drunk and got hit . |
| 9 | ‘ Perhaps the best thing is that he is reacting to noises and the sound of his name . |
| 10 | In short , one way of understanding Burgess is that he is describing the moral careers of immigrants ; some successfully adapting and eventually living in what they and respectable Chicago society saw as the ‘ front regions ’ of the desirable suburbs . |
| 11 | The greatest of his achievements is that he is working here . |
| 12 | You say that your information is that he was wounded ? ’ |
| 13 | The answer is that he is guessing . ’ |
| 14 | The answer is that he was wreaking a horrible revenge for having had his box of leads confiscated that morning , on suspicion that he was attending a job interview . |
| 15 | His torment is that he is forced to face the etched face of a Daemonette carved into the wall opposite , which flicks out a long serrated fleshy tongue which rips into the man 's neck and chest . |
| 16 | The likely explanation is that he is feeling contemplative , a little introspective , and he wants a quiet evening at home without the sort of chit-chat that might drown out the TV football commentary . |
| 17 | The official story is that he was playing it at a party and people wanted to hear it over and over . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , one thing I know about Mr Coffin is that he was born in the early nineteen-twenties . |
| 19 | Now as I understand it the minister 's position is that he be bound to refer that matter to the partner responsible for audit and that partner er would then be put on notice that er he ought to report it to the relevant authority . |
| 20 | ‘ The idea is that he 's stopped for good . ’ |
| 21 | The idea is that he 's using them as , as a way of communicating the idea of the forest being er landscaped ; the whole environment of being polluted and it has an ecological background to it . |
| 22 | ‘ Because my impression is that he 's using the privacy of the consulting room to hide something . |
| 23 | He chose to remain close to Marxism , but my impression is that he was shifting his ground … |