Example sentences of "[be] that [pers pn] [verb] [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed one possible advantage offered by computers is that they free children from lower order tasks and allow far more time for higher order thinking — instead of laboriously drawing a graph , pupils have more time for analysis of a graph produced by the computer . |
| 2 | When , when I was asked to comment be before John was , was ever elected erm is that you elect moderators from e , whatever happened to a moderator ! |
| 3 | The best that I can say for a personality explanation is that it prevents executives from thinking about changing their behaviour , because it understandably makes little sense for them to undergo some kind of therapy . |
| 4 | The biggest problem with astrology is that it stops people from worshipping the one true God . |
| 5 | Yes , one of the nice aspects of astronomy is that it brings people from many different areas of science together . |
| 6 | More importantly , the weakness of such pure positivism is that it detaches law from any rationale which could explain its bindingness . |
| 7 | One idea was that they roll downslope from the submarine volcanic vent like plastic bags full of water , before piling up on top of one another ; another was that they whizzed along the sea bed , supported by a cushion of collapsing steam bubbles ; while a third suggested that ‘ pillows ’ are n't separate entities at all , but long , worm-like tubes whose thickness varies along their length . |