Example sentences of "[be] that [pron] [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Regatta chairman talks about the way hospitality had taken over the regatta course and howm glad they are that it seems to be declining . |
| 2 | The unique and dangerous features of the listeria bacterium are that it appears to be transmitted through meat or even vegetables grown in areas fertilised by the manure of infected animals . |
| 3 | Du Cann 's fundamental problem has been that he wanted to be seen as cross between a Tory grandee and country squire . |
| 4 | In vain she had remonstrated with the powers that be that she had to be on the air in the Docklands by six , and when she finally pitched up , I had been put back on the phones for another session of ‘ And your address is — can you spell that please ? ’ |
| 5 | Indeed , the professor 's rationale may be that he wishes to be involved in two completely different activities . |
| 6 | It is that we tend to be left with an RE which effectively has lost its " R " . |
| 7 | Well , we do see a good deal of what is around us and not simply whatever it is that we happen to be staring at . |
| 8 | The reason for this is that we want to be able to attribute all changes of meaning on substitution to differences in the semantic properties of the items being substituted . |
| 9 | ‘ I am afraid , Prime Minister , the answer is that we have to be more efficient than our European competitors . ’ |
| 10 | I think the other issue is that we have to be defending erm , the family planning centres that are being closed down , like the forty or fifty in Glasgow , the thirteen in er Edinburgh , th the east of Scotland |
| 11 | One of the factors which must be taken into account is that we have to be responsive to changes in our scientific activities in order to provide the necessary Library support for them . |
| 12 | It has had considerable benefits , it 's had one or two drawbacks and er I think the biggest lesson that we have probably learned so far from the Eurofighter programme , is that we have to be very careful when we make work sharing agreements in future , that er we do n't try to drive the work sharing requirement down to too low a level . |
| 13 | One of Pearce 's main points is that we need to be able to apply monetary values to environmental gains and losses . |
| 14 | But I think there 's something more important than funding that was realised at that Conference between Eastern and Western Local Authorities and that is that we need to be there to assist because we can assist . |
| 15 | The single most startling fact for girls , however , is that they tend to be taken into care for ‘ status offences ’ rather than for breaking the law . |
| 16 | Sir Ranulph 's wife , Lady Virginia Fiennes , speaking from her remote Exmoor farm , said : ‘ All I know is that they asked to be picked up and the pick-up has come in and got them . |
| 17 | The danger with these time-removed antecedents is that they come to be regarded as irremediable causes ( which they are ) . |
| 18 | Well , Moscavisi 's argument , and I must say , I agree with him , is that they tended to be denigrated by both groups who might have taken the biggest interest in them . |
| 19 | He says the problem with some teams , like the Eastern Europeans , is that they want to be part of the display flying circus , but they have n't got the financial means . |
| 20 | One of the reasons for owning rather than borrowing textbooks is that they need to be marked to get the best out of them . |
| 21 | Perhaps the oddest feature of evidence on spillovers is that they seem to be particularly prevalent in high R&D sectors , and this raises the question of whether they actually do undermine incentives to do R&D ( see Levin , 1988 ) . |
| 22 | So what 's interesting here is that they seem to be having a conversation about un the university matters , the history department and so on but in fact there 's this kind of subtext going on here in which both of them want to find out about the other person 's children and both of them are being very mysterious and avoiding the question . |
| 23 | ‘ One of the attractions of younger men is that they appear to be less traditional than the older generation . |
| 24 | The reason so many things are delayed is that they have to be perfect . |
| 25 | The problem with device drivers is that they have to be installed in your CONFIG.SYS file , and it is usually helpful to have an install routine guide you through the process — lord knows , just about every other program you come across these days insists on writing to CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT . |
| 26 | What this case clearly shows is that one has to be very careful in assuming that in restraint of trade cases a phrase ascribed a meaning in one case will also be ascribed the same meaning in another . |
| 27 | Yeah , but the , the claim is that anyone needs to be licensed by the C commanding trigger which is no one and the point is that erm anyone will then not be C commanded by no one , because no one is too far down the tree . |
| 28 | The first point to note here is that there has to be a balance of need . |
| 29 | All that Ormrod J. is in fact saying is that there has to be a woman in a marriage , because someone has to perform the essential role of a woman in the marriage , and this essential role is to be a woman , biologically so determined . |
| 30 | So far as far as water sports are concerned I would make one reservation which is that there has to be some form of rationalization between competed sports which may conflict with each other and I am sure this can be achieved through the Sports Council machinery . |