Example sentences of "[be] that [noun prp] [vb mod] [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The lesson since Bismarck has been that France can not compete politically , militarily or economically with a united Germany .
2 The truth is that Blanche can not live in a realistic world .
3 One of the attractions about Indycar racing is that Mansell will not have to cross the world in wearying pursuit of Grand Prix glory .
4 In Jerusalem , a foreign ministry spokesman said : ‘ One of our basic principles is that Israel will not agree to any move that will bring direct or indirect contact with the PLO . ’
5 The calculation of Turkey 's president , Turgut Ozal , is that Iraq will not attack Turkey and that Saddam Hussein will soon be out of a job .
6 The difficulty is that Maastricht could not have been rolled away to leave the open-market EC that was being built beforehand .
7 My bet is that Liverpool wo n't win anything this year and Souness will get the sack .
8 The one indisputable position which connects the two poems is that Octavia should not marry Florio or Philander on the slender hope that love will prevail .
9 The oddity about the scrum-halves is that Strachan can not get a game for Auckland ahead of Jason Hewett , of last season 's World Cup squad , and Preston does not rank ahead of Graeme Bachop , the no.1 All Black halfback since 1990 , for Canterbury .
10 The stark fact is that Nottinghamshire could not afford to do both and generated local controversy by protecting the vertical efficiency of the developmental approach at the expense of fieldwork support for the many .
11 The simple fact is that Ford can not begin to exercise its stated intention of building a significant stake in Jaguar for another two weeks .
12 The broader truth is that Dostoevsky can not foster any of his dearest values except obliquely , by stealth , by catching them napping .
13 The State Department 's main regret was that Britain would not go beyond her " one foot in and one foot out " policy towards Europe .
14 She did n't know but what she did know was that Fernando would n't do anything to hurt anyone … only herself , as he had threatened when she had first arrived here at the lovely Casa Pinar .
15 One was that God could not make several worlds .
16 The second crucial point was that Tanzania should not have television until it was really ready to make full use of it .
17 Its stated intention was that Mary should not marry any foreign prince ; she must marry a prince born of this realm — and Arran 's son was the most suitable candidate .
18 All she felt as she lay in the dark was that Nicky could not satisfy her .
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