Example sentences of "[be] that [pron] [modal v] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The good thing about having the machines on the vehicle are that we can give him that electric shock as opposed to taking him to the hospital to have that electric shock . |
| 2 | The chances are that he will see his inconsistency and revise his moral views , either exonerating Smith or condemning himself . |
| 3 | If you take your guitar to your local music shop and try out their range of pedals , the chances are that you will find something to do the job and save yourself the substantial cost of a new set of pickups . |
| 4 | Her one great fear had always been that she would lose her children — they were too precious to her , they had cost to much to lose now . |
| 5 | To his surprise , the strongest argument in favour of taking the job had been that it would keep him near to Frances . |
| 6 | They have done that before , and the hope must be that they will do it again . |
| 7 | ‘ If there is anything we can do at the dams , it may be that we can raise their levels by even two or three inches , but that has implications for the surrounding countryside . ’ |
| 8 | yep it 's just that some of the cottages tend to be a bit smaller so that it might well be that we can get you something where there 's a perhaps ground floor extension or whatever okay . |
| 9 | An additional benefit of expanding Eccleshall 's book would be that he could extend his interpretative essays , which contain important and subtle reflections on the nature of Conservatism . |
| 10 | On the other hand , if you report all to me it may be that I shall give you money . |
| 11 | Another consequence of keeping cats in this restricted way would be that you would prevent them from acting as predators of some anti-social species , e.g. rats and mice . |
| 12 | If you have a lead rising main , it may well be that you can see it only at the mains stopcock , after which it disappears into the wall to re-emerge in the loft covered with sacking on its way to the cold water cistern . |
| 13 | The ideal way , way of arranging a room as I see it would be that you could have your separate rooms but have sliding doors , after all there 's nothing new in sliding doors , er , but doors opening and closing erm are restrictive , that 's only my own personal view , my wife does n't necessarily , necessarily share that view ideally if I was planning a house , the main room the main living room would be much larger than the one we live in , it would certainly be a different shape , erm when we had our golden wedding erm our visitors were so numerous that they were standing shoulder to shoulder in these two rooms and the kitchen whereas if it had been a reasonably designed house maybe we could of spread them around a little more , but they 're minor , minor defects that are not really serious . |
| 14 | And the reason I would come up with would be that it must make you feel stonkingly great . |
| 15 | The underlying principle of such homework tasks , in the form of self-help therapy , is that everybody can set themselves a task , however small , and achieve it . |
| 16 | ‘ My guess is that we 'll get him if we play by its rules for a while . ’ |
| 17 | All I 'm saying is that we 'll overdo it if we have the … ’ |
| 18 | The message brought by the Lady of the Hearth is that we may allow ourselves time and space to enjoy the fruits of the work — for this , too , is part of the cycle . |
| 19 | The first is that we may find it hard to suppose that facts can cause anything ; surely they are too inert to affect the way the world goes , even where that world is the merely mental world of beliefs . |
| 20 | ‘ With nothing left to fight about ’ , wrote Brailsford in 1914 , ‘ our chief concern is that we may have something to fight with . ’ |
| 21 | What it would mean is that we would consider it immoral to treat animals as if they had no intrinsic value , as if they were of instrumental value only , merely means to human ends . |
| 22 | ‘ One prospect is that we shall lose our seat on the Security Council . ’ |
| 23 | One consequence of this is that we must adjust our account of the referential locus . |
| 24 | What is relevant is that we must overwhelm our opponent quickly and effectively . |
| 25 | A very last thought is that we must do everything possible to answer our own prayers . |
| 26 | Moving on , another suggestion is that we should ballot our members about who we vote for as M for MPs and also for the leader of the Party . |
| 27 | I 'm very surprised your attitude is that we should cover it up and hide it away rather than try and elucidate its value for science . |
| 28 | And our philosophy as a truly worldwide supplier of accounting software is that we should increase our presence in different parts of the world as our sales and marketing activity there merits it . |
| 29 | The injunction which still holds good is that we should use our resources with as much single-mindedness and astuteness as the unjust steward displayed but in our case to further the interests of the Kingdom of God . |
| 30 | The the way the company operates is that we will assign you to a golf course . |