Example sentences of "[adj] [be] that [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is clear is that it evolved out of the neolithic Cretan religion and that the religion of the classical Greeks at least in part grew out of it . |
| 2 | The reason I say this is that they dive just like a peregrine , folding their wings and plummeting like an arrow into the sea to catch their prey . |
| 3 | The main reason for this is that they do n't know how to and probably neither do a lot of their English solicitors . |
| 4 | What 's bad about this is that they do n't take drugs — they 've never touched them — but they want to sell them . |
| 5 | This is that we do not have an a priori conception of reality which allows for a range of possible universes , empirical inquiry determining just which of those possibilities is realized . |
| 6 | The upshot of this is that I 've now become a resident , which makes a weekly tour of junk and antique shops even more vital . |
| 7 | The most amusing part of all this is that I do n't have a lover . ’ |
| 8 | My concern about this is that I do n't see how a view can be taken at a strategic level on something which ultimately can be only ascertained on a site specific basis . |
| 9 | The effect of this is that you do n't have to bother calculating anything — if you use 1in thick material , 7½in diameter . |
| 10 | The reason for this is that you do not just calculate the length and breadth of the pool , but the various areas that are going to accommodate marginal shelves as well . |
| 11 | What 's good about this is that it does n't take too much time . |
| 12 | The main gap in Table 3.7 is that it does not show the amount of sterling eurobonds not listed on the London Stock Exchange . |
| 13 | One thing that went seriously wrong is that we did n't hear more of Neil Kinnock speaking as he did amid the wreckage of his political hopes and personal career . |
| 14 | The only difference between its policies and those of CND proper is that it does not campaign directly for Britain 's withdrawal from Nato . |
| 15 | Another is that they do n't shove the gear up on their dining-room walls ; you ca n't have a cop or two show up at some billionaire 's apartment in Sutton Place and demand to go through the strongroom . |
| 16 | Another is that it opens up the risk financing options available . |
| 17 | We now know that the reason for this was that they did not dwell or traffic within the walls ; that Lundenwic like Hamwih lay outside , along the Strand or foreshore of the Thames . |
| 18 | The reason for this was that she did n't like Mr. Gordon . |
| 19 | Of course , the effect of all this was that she did n't like my children very much , and she had some justification for this . |
| 20 | Her interpretation of this was that I did n't like him because I was jealous of their relationship . |
| 21 | The problem for the British was that they had seriously miscalculated their own positions . |
| 22 | The second is that they include not only pedigrees and arms but also , in many cases , ancillary material such as lists of persons to be summoned , correspondence , church notes and lists of disclaimers . |
| 23 | ‘ The second is that we step out to the supermarket and pick up some supplies . ’ |
| 24 | The second is that it does not adequately take account of the sad fact of life that health authorities may on occasion find that they have too few resources , either human or material or both , to treat all the patients whom they would like to treat in the way in which they would like to treat them . |
| 25 | The second is that it does not appear satisfactory on policy grounds . |
| 26 | What was unforgivable was that he had systematically lied to me — and I had let him do it . |
| 27 | The advantages of these are that they last much longer and cost much less to run ( the saving well outweighs the higher asking price ) ; their disadvantages are that the light they give is not quite so ‘ warm ’ and does not come on instantly . |
| 28 | They 're unique and what makes them unique is that they do not know it . ’ |
| 29 | The reason this seems paradoxical is that we place so much emphasis on natural selection as the driving force of evolution . |
| 30 | I suppose the reason I got down to an effort to be objective is that I did n't like the interpretations of my other things — so here I am with an array of alligator pears — about ten of them — calla lilies — four or six — leaves — summer green ones — ranging through yellow to the dark sombre blackish purplish red — eight or ten — horrid yellow sunflowers — two new red cannas — some white birches with yellow leaves — only two that I have no name for and I do n't know where they come from . |