Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [verb] [be] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Supporters of the third principle may claim that the reason rape is prohibited is that its perpetration deprives the raped of their chances to live according to their conception of the good . |
| 2 | There are many arguments as to which strategy is best ( de Nevers et al. , 1977 ; Wall , 1976b ) but increasingly the conclusion being reached is that it is possible to make use of the advantages of two or more strategies . |
| 3 | The one point on which Mr Golyadkin and Double were agreed was that there is nobody like God , but it follows pat and false that if a man has nowhere to go God will look after him . |
| 4 | My Lords , I I I do n't want to intervene in family quarrels , but er surely the point that the Noble Lord , Lord was making was that there is no section er two A i in in force a at at the present time . |
| 5 | What the doctor is saying is that he had to continue treatment , because it was right to do so as a matter of public policy . |
| 6 | And part of the reason of course the dialect is gone is that we unconsciously sort of translate what we 're going to say into good English so that we 're understood . |
| 7 | What that exhibition in fact is doing is that it 's not saying here 's a new spirit in painting , it 's saying that we the organizers , having not bothered to show you these things in the sixties and seventies , will now allow you to see them in the eighties , and we will pretend there 's a new spirit because we think it 's good for the art world to have new fashions , new movements , or at least something new going on that will produce some kind of emotional pressure . |