Example sentences of "be that [pers pn] [is] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Jim Howe , Tony 's doctor , said : ‘ His parents said how peaceful their son has looked over his last few days and how relieved they are that he is finally at rest . ’ |
| 2 | The problem seems to be that it is fundamentally about attitudes to work and such attitudes are subject to an inextricable and non-monotonic range of influences not only from work itself , with all the pressures of technological change , but also from prevailing economic , social and cultural changes in the community generally . |
| 3 | The moral to this little story must therefore be that it is always worth checking that the components you receive from a supplier are the ones that you actually ordered ! |
| 4 | The problem with contemporaneity is that it is right under our noses . |
| 5 | The most remarkable fact about the appointment of judges is that it is wholly in the hands of politicians . |
| 6 | A second objection is that it is far from clear how we would decide , in any principled way , what the participants in a discourse fragment are , in fact , ‘ concentrating ’ on . |
| 7 | The minor irritation on returning to the car is that it is directly in front of you as you descend to the north , but there is nowhere to cross the river . |
| 8 | The point is that it is only during face-to-face encounters that your behaviour is totally evident . |
| 9 | The paradox is that it is only in our self-surrender that we are truly blessed . |
| 10 | Yet the reality is that it is only in companies where each shareholder has a sufficiently substantial stake in the company to make it worth his or her while performing the tasks of monitoring and supervising the behaviour of the directors that this constitutional framework can hope to provide an adequate control on the behaviour of directors . |
| 11 | What Harwell 's saying is that it 's purely on commercial grounds that Dino and Pluto are to close . |
| 12 | My position on what 's happening in the women 's movement at the moment is that it 's really in dire need of reconstruction , and that there would be no possibility of having a sort of joint togetherness as it were with Black women and white women because of some of the things that have been mentioned already — the racism that exists , the fact that feminism as a guiding ideological force remains a sort of tool of imperialism . |
| 13 | His most annoying habit is that he 's always on show . |
| 14 | ‘ A problem for Falconer is that he is just on the way back . |
| 15 | ‘ Ken Livingstone 's problem is that he is always on the television slagging the party off . ’ |