Example sentences of "[adj] [be] that [pron] have [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 Mr Taylor said : ‘ What is clear is that we have come closer together .
2 Now one of the interesting things about this is that they 've worked out , in order to erm achieve our sales forecast , erm the impact of recruitment for each branch is that we need a net growth in branch of one plus one for every er on every month .
3 It , but er the difference this is that we 've got a piece of fabric coming of there with a weight holding it down .
4 The reason why we are embarrassed to admit this is that we have lived in an age when the self-sufficiency , the autonomy of poems has been elevated into dogma .
5 The obvious explanation of this is that we have learned subliminally that certain factors , in combination , indicate that one place is safe for us while another is not .
6 The irony of it is this is that he has done a lot , he gave ten thousand
7 One interesting side-effect of all this is that I 've seen more of Britain than I ever did before , albeit through the windows of an armoured car .
8 The real benefit from this is that you 've got a full page , and a full diary .
9 Another is that it has survived this far only because of a remarkable social cohesiveness ( in which traditional fatalistic passivity may have played an important part ) .
10 Erm they 're in no hurry to join but with this second period er from September or was it October and erm once again there is this idea that , you know , the tide is turning and they , they will now join erm they wo n't find it so hard to join as the rich peasants but once again they 're not as enthusiastic and maybe they should be but they are , they are helping more but er er and this is the key er for which you know Mao talked about later is that we 've got to get the middle peasant actually actively involved
11 We got on very well together and suddenly began to realise how strange and curious it all was that we had gone to separate schools . ’
12 What made it more extraordinary was that everything had conspired against them , from the Home Unions committee 's refusal to grant them official Lions status right through to the kick-off .
13 The first is that they have become much more reliant upon state benefits : first supplementary benefit and latterly income support ( which replaced supplementary benefit in 1988 ) .
14 The first is that he has got her into bed so easily and the second is that it seems to mean nothing to her .
15 Now at least they are in the same boat , and the balancing of the pronouns in the last four lines declares their equality : I have quoted extensively from that sonnet in order to give the full context for this Our : what they have in common is that they have sinned , each has betrayed the other .
16 The consequence of that is that we 've seen a continuation of road-building schemes which have caused considerable damage to the countryside , devastated communities and have no real hope of soaking up the so-called demand for new roads .
17 Oh sorry erm we are expect the business this year to break even it broke even last year , erm and the reason for that is that we have expanded business very rapidly , last year we had only thirty five stores this year we 'll have fifty and we will probably have a similar sort of expansion programme for next year .
18 If I could just say one other thing , that is that I 've had a an initial of , of the blocks done and pending the outcome of Woolwich which I expect to get tomorrow erm , if they are backing out then I will be getting a full structural , engineers structural survey within a couple of days , this is the actually meeting plan .
19 There is a common theme to most of my big hauls of zander and that is that I have started catching almost immediately on starting to fish a swim .
20 What is new is that we have moved from too few qualified nurses coming to work in the operating theatres , to not enough people entering nursing .
21 It turned out that our candidate , who came to address us one evening , knew my Aunt Kit and had the greatest admiration for her , even though he also knew that the only reason why she had not been offered another , safer constituency after 1945 was that it had become too obvious she was unable to keep off the drink .
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