Example sentences of "[be] that [pers pn] [vb base] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's always been surrounded by people who think everything else he does is marvellous , but one of the points of our relationship has been that I 've always criticised his work , and for me those double portraits of the Seventies came perilously close to Photo-Realism . ’ |
| 2 | It may be that they have just had their operation or they are just about to have it . ’ |
| 3 | Instead , the main ingredient of success appears to be that they have consistently geared themselves to the needs of international trade . |
| 4 | It could be that you 've never taken your family abroad on holiday , so you set yourself a little objective , that in two years ' time , I want to take them all , even if it 's a damn package deal on a flight to Tenerife , do it , will you feel good , will the family enjoy it ? |
| 5 | The idea seems to be that you have tacitly accepted the protection of the laws and thereby you have tacitly undertaken to obey them . |
| 6 | One I mean one of the reason 's that we 've actually changed these round and and do n't think it 's right is because the has a there 's been a cut cut cost cutting exercise within the building . |
| 7 | Most significant news of all is that we 've just won the highly respected Dataquest Customer Satisfaction Poll against competition from the other best manufacturing names in the industry . |
| 8 | And the final point I wanted to make , although yes , we do welcome the special transitional grant second tranche of ten point eight million pounds , and it would be churlish not to , it is nevertheless a reduction on what the share of it was last year erm s of the national total so there is actually a reduction in the share that is getting this year , and alongside that , and of course hence the need for the recommendation in the budget , is that we 've actually lost very specifically one point eight five six million in the rollover grant from last year 's erm S T D tranche which we are specifically asking and very grateful to policy and resources for , hopefully , erm we 're asking and we 're hopeful they will underpin it and the Chairman is here and er er has nodded in that direction I think it 's fair to say . |
| 9 | I know , so I mean the thing is that we 've always said have n't ya as long as you can sort of get 'em down |
| 10 | ‘ The problem about us , ’ said Helen , ‘ is that we 've never felt the same way about money as most other people seem to . ’ |
| 11 | One of the drawbacks in presenting such a wide range of analytical exercises in quick succession is that we become so overwhelmed by the options that we end up by doing nothing . |
| 12 | Our particular strength is that we have progressively focused into areas of specialisation including pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals . |
| 13 | Colleagues , the important thing about the agreement so far , is that we have already destroyed the myth , perpetuated by the employers , that joint work across national boundaries in Euro- multinationals are inappropriate because of differences in trade union cultures , organization and systems of collective bargaining . |
| 14 | ‘ What is known , however , is that we have already sold more than 60 per cent of the public tickets and will be informing the lucky applicants by 1 April instead of 30 June as we originally intended . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ What is known , however , is that we have already sold more than 60 per cent of the public tickets and will be informing the lucky applicants by 1 April instead of 30 June as we originally intended . ’ |
| 16 | The simple truth is that we have both bowled extremely professionally throughout the last series against England . |
| 17 | ‘ The bottom line , though , is that we have only recorded our first win and now we must face the tough and noisy atmosphere of Lisbon 's Stadium of Light when we play Portugal in our next match . ’ |
| 18 | But the concern , in respect of the early years , is that we have never achieved consensus over what an appropriate early years curriculum should be ; besides which , provision is so varied nationally that some children are evidently disadvantaged from an early age . |
| 19 | Another difficulty of the last 11 or 12 years is that we have always faced west , towards the United States of America . |
| 20 | Perhaps the best answer to that question is that we have recently established an NHS research and development directorate , under Professor Michael Peckham . |
| 21 | The main thing is that we have now completed over forty films . |
| 22 | The hypothesis is that we have now reached the end of the particular combination known as Fordism and are embarking on an as yet embryonic and relatively unknown period , but one which has already been given a name — neo-Fordism . |
| 23 | The key reasons before that is that they 've actually put the across in the way that 's not totally compatible with learning side . |
| 24 | The reason why many ethologists would now prefer to explain ritualization as an arms race is that they have increasingly come to realize that selfish competition among individuals is the rule in the animal world . |
| 25 | This picture was confirmed by the DCSL , who described her impression as follows : The library is extremely well used and my experience of sitting in there during the school day is that they have also achieved very good curriculum use as well , they have managed to overcome what another school , I think , is having problems with … |
| 26 | The trouble with the new community councils is that they have largely fallen into the hands of the incoming middle-class whose views are likely to be coincident with the dominant ideology . |
| 27 | A key feature of the battery of initiatives is that they have largely stemmed from a Human Resource Management approach which is directed at employees as individuals . |
| 28 | If there is any difference , it is that they have now taken over all the station and the upper classes have generally disappeared . |
| 29 | She reckons the real reason the Japanese are so successful is that they have always incorporated a spiritual approach in business . |
| 30 | It can be a very hard game sometimes , but the most important thing for me is that I 've now got my mind right . |