Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [adv] [vb pp] [be] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The algorithm originally adopted was that a pixel was to be ON if more than five of the surrounding eight pixels were ON , OFF if fewer than three were ON , and not changed from its existing value if from three to five were ON . |
| 2 | The argument usually deployed is that the millionaire will benefit enormously , but there are very few millionaires . |
| 3 | The example always given was that the fluttering of a butterly 's wing in the forests of Amazonia could change the climate of the north Atlantic , which might in theory be true because things very often changed just at the margin , and no one could trace quite how . |
| 4 | The answer sometimes given is that murderers should be treated differently because they are particularly dangerous : anyone who chooses to kill once can choose to kill again . |
| 5 | The justification usually advanced is that the facts are rarely in dispute and that the judge who has witnessed the incident is the person best equipped to deal with it . |
| 6 | The reason sometimes given is that the defences of justification and fair comment are for the jury , which is the constitutional tribunal , and not for the judge . |
| 7 | The assumption usually made is that it should be the teachers in schools who review the curriculum . |
| 8 | The suggestion almost made is that , since knowledge is certain and faith is not knowledge , faith is uncertain . |
| 9 | The view most favoured is that it could , by the intervention of an official and by means of his coercion . |