Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun pl] be that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the advantages of improved interpersonal skills are that you will be better at : |
| 2 | The main problem for instrumental Marxist accounts is that they have great difficulty in explaining the eclecticism and indeterminacy of events in the world under a single reductionist or economist explanation which relates all actions by the state to the desires and power capabilities of a ruling class based on economic ownership . |
| 3 | ‘ The problem dealing with Iranian or Lebanese Shi'ite terrorists is that we know comparatively little about them . |
| 4 | One of the reasons for his having such innovative ideas was that he was almost untrained , some would say untrainable , and laughed ( extremely annoyingly at the time ) at his elders and betters and their obsessions with sketching and learning the orders . |
| 5 | The great advantage in generating patterns in development by such reaction-diffusion mechanisms is that they are self-organizing and so can generate patterns without the complex programming that the interpretation of positional information requires . |
| 6 | The problem with such large fields is that it means a lot of walking , but the alternative is to search in smaller fields , which is not a good alternative . |
| 7 | The merit of separate qualified defences is that they focus the evidence and the legal argument , giving the jury ( in contested cases ) an opportunity to assess the defence , and giving the judge fairly precise guidance on the basis for sentencing : this might be thought to ensure that each defendant is dealt with more fairly , but the risk of confusing the jury in a contested case might tend to erode that protection . |
| 8 | The spirit of papal statements throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was that it was the duty of the state to oppose freedom of conscience in matters of religion and freedom of worship and to celebrate openly the worship of God ‘ in that way which he has shown to be his will ’ , namely Roman catholicism ( Leo XIII 1903 : 111–12 ) . |
| 9 | A particularly striking feature of the early Christian communities is that they were urban , and only slowly penetrated rural societies . |
| 10 | What I find fascinating about these eight pages is that they are sustained by rage — by a controlled yet immense rage against a government which could allow its veterans to die — and that Hemingway has the skill to let his anger unroll , rather like one of the giant waves caused by the hurricane , until his readers are held afloat upon it . |
| 11 | The thread which runs through these sorry tales is that they are all examples of irrational over-reaction by a government which is , by the standards of the region , honest , able and secure . |
| 12 | The danger with these time-removed antecedents is that they come to be regarded as irremediable causes ( which they are ) . |
| 13 | The importance of these stored finds is that they form a research collection available for study by archaeologists and others , and some are used for travelling and temporary exhibitions , and in teaching collections on loan to schools . |
| 14 | One major presupposition of these early surveys was that it was preferable to study the whole population of a society in order to ensure the reliability and accuracy of the data collected . |
| 15 | One of the many caveats I want to make about these still-experimental calculations is that they are not typical at all socio-economic levels . |
| 16 | The limitation of these simple answers is that they suggest that the reader has a relatively , if not completely , passive role . |
| 17 | The main weakness of these republican reforms was that they threatened fundamental change but did n't fully implement it . |
| 18 | The child is surrounded by GIANTS , and the trouble with these beastly GIANTS is that they seem to spend most of their lives telling the child WHAT TO DO and WHAT NOT TO DO . |
| 19 | The essence of these national schemes is that they provide a monitoring of the system as a whole and do not identify individual schools or students . |
| 20 | Among the reasons for these large numbers are that there is no right of appeal from the Immigration Appeal Tribunal to the courts ; that from many decisions by immigration officers adverse to immigrants , an appeal can be made only from outside the United Kingdom ; and that from some decisions ( such as some exclusions deemed conducive to the public good by the Secretary of State ) there are no rights of appeal at all . |
| 21 | ‘ I wo n't allow myself to be tortured , ’ Raskolnikov tells Porfiry , but our sense of their three long encounters is that there 's nothing either of them can do about it . |
| 22 | The reward for the exersions of these intrepid cyclists was that they raised more than £200 . |
| 23 | My view of the exhibition and these complementary texts is that they seem for the most part to lack the critical motivation and the dialectical irony of the Situationists . |
| 24 | An interesting fact of large industrial organizations is that there is always a nearly unanimous clarity amongst those involved at the lower levels on who it is who is actually keeping the thing going , because in every organization somebody is . |
| 25 | What unites all these disparate activities is that they all help to maximise the impact and outreach of your message , to present the person or the party in the most effective way to enthuse and woo the voters . |
| 26 | But the radical difference between this and previous dieting methods is that it makes the food you consume more filling and also renders some of the calories it supplies non-fattening , as you will begin to learn in the next chapter . |
| 27 | The marvellous thing about basic cheap ottomans is that you can paint them any colour to match the prevailing decor of the room and you can cover the lid with padded material , or even carpet , to make a seat . |
| 28 | Another interesting feature about these new thelodonts is that there is evidence that a well developed stomach was present . |
| 29 | Key features of these new qualifications are that they must : |
| 30 | The reason for a lot of these premature deaths was that their owners did not sufficiently understand the importance of cash flow . |