Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [adv] that [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The answer is surely that they occupied a very special place in the lives of many young middle-class men and especially in the lives of those of them who were budding artists , writers , or intellectuals , who in short were Bohemians . |
| 32 | The answer is simply that they enjoyed it . |
| 33 | The answer is just that it simplifies interpretation of the figures by reducing uneven streams of benefits and costs to a single index of NPV ( or IRR ) . |
| 34 | But her hair 's not that she needs to get |
| 35 | So where , as in Morgan , defendants claim that they believed the woman was consenting , because her husband ( who was present ) had told them that she enjoyed a struggle , their case is simply that they lacked the fault element required for the crime . |
| 36 | The problem with states of this kind is not that they exclude all organised groups , as the doctrine of Napoleonic administration says they should , but that they exclude unequally and grant access and favours to certain privileged groups . |
| 37 | For many people the biggest problem with using a computer is simply that you have to type something on the keyboard to achieve anything at all . |
| 38 | However , our real weakness is not that we lack the potential , but that we lack the will to act . |
| 39 | Our charge against the metaphysician is not that he attempts to employ the understanding in a field where it can not possibly venture , but that he produces sentences which fail to conform to the conditions under which alone a sentence can be literally significant . |
| 40 | The reason many directors resist starting a pension scheme is simply that it takes money out of the business for example , for expansion . |
| 41 | Most people er recognise that er being able to park in a space in a busy street is an important part of driving , and the surprise is really that it 's never been part of the test before . |
| 42 | He can measure every clause of what the income is , against what the expenditure is so that we have some control to ensure that the church life grows and we do n't stumble . |
| 43 | We have the greatest chance ever to rid the world of nuclear weapons now , yet the consensus in this country is apparently that we need to maintain three Trident systems and possibly build a fourth at a total cost of more than £23 billion . |
| 44 | Our problem is not that we have the wrong answers to particular doubts but that we do not have the right attitude to doubt in general . |
| 45 | ‘ You see , the problem is n't that I do n't want to pay you your salary . |
| 46 | Indeed I am rather coming round to the view that the trouble last year was not that we failed to produce as good policies as our opponents but that we failed to produce policies for the issues the electorate was most interested in . |
| 47 | The most astonishing aspect of the case was not that she had an understandable desire to disport herself in space , but that under the law as it stands a major general had to offer her an abject apology for the recruiting sergeant showing a welcome piece of common sense . |
| 48 | ( Smart , 1959 ; Armstrong , 1968 , 1980 ; Lewis , 1966 , 1972 ) What is distinctive about this view is not that it takes the episodes of consciousness to stand in such causal relations . |
| 49 | Israel 's great sin was n't that it did not do good things — but that it did not obey the Law , the Torah . |