Example sentences of "[conj] [det] be the [noun] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Everyone else had , or that 's the impression you get .
2 Or that was the way it seemed .
3 People automatically seemed to defer to his judgement — or that was the impression she gained .
4 Where this is the case it is interesting to note that the Access to Personal Files ( Social Services ) Regulations 1989 require local authorities to disclose as much information as they can by omitting names and sensitive information or by other means .
5 Where this is the case there will be a need to remedy the deficiency as quickly as possible , and thereafter to seek to improve the individual 's eating habits by careful discussion and support .
6 When they say to you ‘ oh well , you know , surely you do n't mind a little bit of flirtation and so on ’ I think very often that 's an entirely mendacious reply , that they know perfectly well what you 're talking about when you talk about sexual harassment , and in the context of discussions in the SCR or over dinner , they simply do n't want to have to deal with it and so they will dismiss it by way of saying ‘ well , you know , I 'm only being chivalrous , or this is the way I was brought up ’ .
7 ‘ The experience we had was that the only people who bought it more or less were the people who used it , ’ says a spokesman .
8 Er so we are all very keen to see this get these extra fire fighters but as he has n't identified the source for which they could pay more , this believes that fifty thousand pounds which slices , there is a good way of doing it and suggest that that 's the way we should do it .
9 And it may be that that 's the way they work , I 'm not quite sure what you 're supposed to do on this one .
10 ‘ Well , just remember , ’ he snapped before turning on his heel , ‘ that that 's the effect you have on me . ’
11 Evidence from the continent and comparison of our record with that of other European countries show that that is the route which delivers a substantial reduction in tobacco smoking .
12 Members of Parliament who represent those areas know that that is the problem which we face .
13 We act as we do because , one way or another , we have learned from others that that is the way we ought to behave .
14 But it 's still at your , if it was going to another sector I could understand that attitude , but when it is being , it 's still within Intercity , I just can not understand that that is the attitude we take .
15 And the third occasion was in another church outside Assisi when he heard the reading from St Matthew 's gospel about absolute poverty , and he became convinced that that was the path he had to follow .
16 I 'm I 'm sure that 's er that that was the reason my mother was poor .
17 During the height of the Reagan-Thatcher era , the name of the game was to ‘ dress for success ’ , although this was the period which also spawned hip hop , rap , and its attendant anti-statusquo culture .
18 Perhaps more fundamental than this was the criticism he received from a Methodist minister that the book does not really mention , let alone do justice to , the central Christian doctrine of Justification by Faith .
19 I I always show this one to prove in fact that this is the case you see cos people sometimes do n't believe my stories .
20 The owners might have claimed damages in arbitration against the yard with all the inherent unavoidable uncertainties of litigation , but in view of the position of the owners vis-d-vis their relations with Shell it would be unreasonable to hold that this is the course they should have taken : see Astley v. Reynolds ( 1731 ) 2 Str. 915 .
21 Derek Davies , editor-in-chief of the Far Eastern Economic Review , fears that this is the fate which might befall Thatcherite Hong Kong .
22 When one thinks of all the PM 's work these last four and a half years and of all he is and stands for , and that this is the response it gets , it makes one lose faith a bit .
23 If Pound had attended to Thomas Hardy 's marriage to Florence Emily Dugdale within two years of the death of his first wife , Emma , there can be little doubt that this is the verdict he would have passed on the transaction .
24 The second aspect of the school meals changes are with that alternative meal saving and would best be introduced erm if members were to decide that this is the way we wanted to go from April ninety five rather than in Sept September ninety four as suggested and attached to the report and that delays the savings , but achieves the same saving but not until nineteen ninety six seven and you will see that the figures have been amended and to take that into account and that 's on line fifty four B appendix ten .
25 It will be observed that this is the way its own mother asserts her dominance and will easily be understood by the pup .
26 His defence of his ‘ diverness ’ is that this is the way he experiences the world , others treat him differently all the time ( especially the figure addressed in the sonnet ) and he responds in kind .
27 And he wants to , at the very least I think it 's reasonable to say , he wants to influence the Communist Party that , that this is the way you should be looking at the world and it , it is different to the way you were looking at it .
28 Thus Jesus is unique , for it is to be said of him as of none other that this is the man whom God raised , and his resurrection forms the turning-point of history .
29 Suddenly you know that this is the man who brought a new horror to rock .
30 He said ooh yes , he said oh , I said God , I said you must just remember that this is the number you 've just bloody dialled !
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