Example sentences of "[conj] his [noun] [be] that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By contrast , the Corinthians passage in which Paul speaks of male headship , and in which it is said that women should be silent ( a verse which is probably an interpolation and does not owe to Paul ) , he is concerned with a practical situation which has arisen , a situation in which the church , still insecure in a pagan world , was likely to cause scandal if it departed too far from social convention — and his concern is that it should not unnecessarily put itself in jeopardy . |
| 2 | The architects asked Hall about judges , and his reply was that he intended to hold a public exhibition of the designs before deciding whom to appoint . |
| 3 | What distinguished Lenin and his party was that they saw that in Russia liberal rule could be overthrown while capitalism was still in its infancy . |
| 4 | Although erm his second idea second way of limiting the possibilities on is rather more difficult to accept now and his claim is that we should n't pay members of parliament , that people who go to parliament ought to be doing it out of duty and not out of er interest . |
| 5 | But if his defence is that it was not his intention to cause fear of violence or to provoke its use , his conduct might still come within the ambit of the subsection by virtue of its latter part . |
| 6 | If his excuse is that he will not be saying anything new , I hope that the newspapers will note that he will just be churning out the same old stuff yet again . |
| 7 | His greatest strength since his appointment was that he had steered clear of the Watergate scandal . |