Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] be [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The public reaction was generally that parents and doctors should decide . |
| 2 | The hon. Gentleman is right that there was a change in 1979 , but for different reasons from those he advanced . |
| 3 | Can I just ask you if your position on the Daily Mirror is still that you 're not at all interested in it , or is there a prospect that you may change your mind when you 've seen the figures from the Mirror ? |
| 4 | The second reason was precisely that a single Carolingian world still existed , and men of the high nobility moved within it . |
| 5 | Certainly suspect committee members had attempted to go abroad , but the real reason was probably that the committee had served its purpose by acting as a bait to attract foreign relief organizations ( the ARA drew up an agreement on 20 August ) . |
| 6 | The corporate concern is therefore that the profit implications of a particular measure are widely understood , and that the legislators are not going to saddle companies struggling for survival with disproportionate costs — or at least , not without the public being made aware of the consequences . |
| 7 | When women do confront sexism , the glib reply is often that it is a joke . |
| 8 | The major conclusions are therefore that the market economy is a remarkably efficient way of creating wealth largely because it succeeds in utilising more information than alternative economic systems ; that for a market economy to work , the society of which it is part needs to believe in certain kinds of values : it must lay great store by individual responsibility and also have a non-egalitarian view of what constitutes social justice ; that the so called ‘ crisis ’ of capitalism results from a prevailing set of cultural values , typified by Freudianism and Marxism , which are contrary to those needed for the market economy to prosper , that humanism as a philosophy can not guarantee to generate the appropriate values , and that Christianity can provide such values and has indeed done so during the period of industrialisation throughout much of the Western world , but in consequence the kind of market economy which is then championed is different from that currently defined by the libertarian philosophy of Professor Friedman and Professor Hayek . |
| 9 | In fact , one of the major tensions was precisely that between the residual kinship patterns and the new form of relationships that were being constructed in the course of the nineteenth century . |
| 10 | By the weekend , the legal advice was apparently that ministers could tell Parliament to go hang . |
| 11 | The classical answer is simply that they are there ; they are taken as given . |
| 12 | Er I could do but then again would you under er so that you can understand er what the actual recommendations are , the important thing is again that we see you face to face . |
| 13 | This arises not only from potential changes of field ( where student preferences are not guaranteed — the contractual baseline is merely that students are enabled to complete the fields upon which they originally registered ) but more significantly from the changing pattern of extra-field choice . |
| 14 | The fundamental argument is again that human beings are still very ‘ basic ’ beings ; that is , they have evolved over millions of years and that what we call civilisation or culture represents only a fraction of human history . |
| 15 | But the daft thing is really that there is a , an access into the little play area from there . |
| 16 | The first difference is simply that we are allowed to specify less in the way of " conditions or data " in order to fix the state . |
| 17 | The first reason is obviously that the performance of , say , the syntactic component depends on the performance of other , lower-level components . |
| 18 | Well I I yeah the only point is there that we do require four referees . |
| 19 | The correct position is thus that the corporate entity is a vehicle for benefiting the interests of a specified group or groups . |
| 20 | Yeah the other the other factor is now that that data is getting on for twelve months old |
| 21 | But the other thing is though that he 's er he 's also saying that , you know , this i if this is an actual situation |
| 22 | What has changed is that a convention has developed as to how and when this power is exercised and the modern position is thus that the monarch has , except in the most unusual circumstances and even then only doubtfully so , no discretion as to when Parliament shall be called and disbanded . |
| 23 | It is also worth noting that dealing need not actually take place ; the minimum requirement is merely that the insider had reasonable cause to believe that dealing in the relevant shares would take place . |
| 24 | It may possibly be , as it surely is in ( 22 ) , that , where a single entity is present to the mind of the speaker , the same speaker can not simultaneously entertain the idea of more than one referent corresponding to that entity ( though there may be certain problems for this view in the case of collective nouns such as government or congregation or quartet , for which see Chapter 8 ) ; however , it is much less obvious that , where there is assumed to be only a single referent , there should be only a single intensional entity present to the mind ; rather , it seems to us that the separation of the referential and the intensional elements is precisely what lies behind such examples as ( 23 ) ( from Searle , 1969 ) , or ( 24 ) : ( 23 ) Everest is Chomolungma ( 24 ) the sheriff did not know that he was Arthur 's brother In the latter sentence , of course , we are interested in the interpretation which has he co-referring with Arthur 's brother , and the reason that we do not find a reflexive in the final position is precisely that these two elements are distinct intensionally even though they share the same referent . |
| 25 | This is partly due to the relative costs of production and the public 's growing recognition that other countries can make good rugs ; but perhaps the main reason is simply that the output of workshops has increased dramatically in recent years . |
| 26 | The minor claim is simply that if you it 's an empirical claim it says if you look at the fossil record , and you look in detail at the changes in the fossils , what you observe is not continuous steady change , but you see what they call stasis — that is nothing much happening for long periods of time , perhaps for millions of years , and then rather suddenly changes taking place . |
| 27 | The underlying idea is simply that some forms are ‘ genuine ’ and some are not . |
| 28 | The underlying attitude is perhaps that most people accept mentally handicapped people and are sympathetic towards them , but remain inwardly glad that it has not happened to them or to their children — ‘ there but for the grace of God , go I. ’ They also continue to believe the many myths surrounding the handicapped which have been passed on for decades . |
| 29 | The resulting impression is consequently that the occurrence was unexpected , happened fortuitously . |
| 30 | In the UK , the institutional mechanics are broadly that a government 's intended expenditure plans for the coming four years are drawn up in the autumn of each year , with the upcoming year being the dominant period for consideration . |