Example sentences of "that [pron] be a [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suppose for example that I am a smoker who has just heard about the dangers of lung cancer . |
| 2 | Now that I 'm a teetotaller it 's become even harder . |
| 3 | Once having framed the thought in my mind that I was a lesbian I found myself unable to keep silent about it . |
| 4 | I waited till we heard him on the stairs , then told them how I had offered to drive this run , but now that I was a passenger it would be against the rules . |
| 5 | Prosecutor : Do you appreciate that she is a person who has the right to refuse ? |
| 6 | At 18 she went to East Anglia University in Norwich to study English and American Studies but there was little sign then that she was a girl who would go far . |
| 7 | The Lodge also said that her reasoning was ‘ inaccurate and biased ’ , and went on to imply that she was a Fascist who could not be trusted . |
| 8 | If I remind you that you are a person who is aware , receptive to new ideas and willing to give them a try , then my suggestion that you buy Ecover is likely to be well received . |
| 9 | Exercise 2 : Pretend that you are a witness who is going to have to give a description to the police . |
| 10 | There had been long periods when I could only enter you and come in you by secretly pretending to myself that I did not know you , that you were a tart I had picked up in a bar — or on the street corner . |
| 11 | In knowing that something is an order one knows all there is to know about its relation to its execution . |
| 12 | What matters is that I need never question that there is a course which is objectively the best for me , and that when most aware I am nearest to it . |
| 13 | They 've had er enormous difficulties and er the honourable gentleman will er know that the South Wales police authority committee , its officers and its Chief Constable have er visited parliament er to put their case to members representing the South Wales police authority area and indeed to er Earl Ferrers the minister er responsible for the police and they certainly have n't had any er criticism made of them by his own government and if er he believes that there is a criticism I would suggest that he takes a leaf out of the book of his er , his right honourable friend the Secretary of State and refers the matter so that it can be properly audited and er I think the honourable gentleman knows that when that is done he will see that there is no blame attached whatsoever to the members or the officers of the police authority . |
| 14 | And if , as I 'm certain once you visit here , you find you want to come back again , you may be interested to know that there is a way you can share in this magnificent Highland retreat , time after time . |
| 15 | Awareness , too , that there is a purpose which exists in all situations , even if that purpose is not immediately evident . |
| 16 | ‘ Modern scientists are beginning to recognise , as our ancient sages did , that there is a vibration which reverberates ceaselessly throughout the cosmos . ’ |
| 17 | The weaker move , then , says that there is a difference which does not matter . |
| 18 | ‘ My experience at The Dorchester and what I know from the Four Seasons Inn on the Park ( Four Seasons recently acquired the Regent Group ) , shows me that there is a market which appreciates the best service and is prepared to pay £200 a night and more for it . ’ |
| 19 | But it is easy to see what the sceptic will say at this point , quite apart from the implied oddity that there is a claim which I could not be justified in making but which another can be justified in making for me . |
| 20 | I also take for granted the fact that the water is normally heated , and that there is a mikva which is easily accessible from my home . |
| 21 | If a geneticist speaks loosely of a ‘ gene for behaviour X ’ , he does not mean that there is a gene which would cause behaviour X if inserted into any animal . |
| 22 | He means that there is a gene which , if it is present in an animal of a given species , along with all the other genes and environmental circumstances characteristic of that species , will make that animal somewhat more likely to do X. Then , if doing X causes an increase in the number of copies of the gene in the population , the gene will spread . |
| 23 | The main elements of this configuration are : that there is an unconscious which affects actions in ways the conscious self can not understand without interpretative aids ; that sexuality is a key area of human conduct , and childhood a key phase of human biography ; that culture can be understood as a scene of interaction between unconscious motor forces and consciously established norms . |
| 24 | We have already seen that there is an argument which says that market controls deter abuse and that even when abuse does occur it might not be efficient to stamp it out . |
| 25 | The real tragedy is that there is an alternative which , unlike the poll tax or any property tax , has been tried and tested in many countries in Europe and in America . |
| 26 | By the time the occupier realises that there is an action he is statute barred . |
| 27 | I can not be mistaken about perceiving something as , say , a cigarette case , because in saying , ‘ It looks like a cigarette case ’ I am not saying that there is an appearance which is a cigarette case . |
| 28 | ‘ The pail feels empty ’ and ‘ The woods sound inhabited ’ do not imply that there is an appearance which is empty or one which is inhabited ; ‘ The curtains appear green ’ does not imply that there is an appearance — or way of appearing — which is green . |
| 29 | Oh there 's a er er There is that there 's a cairn there was A man lost on the hill of Kilray and there was a cairn put there . |
| 30 | Erm I forget which discussant it was but it it 's wrong to think that there 's a difference I think between erm me , I was being characteritured as wanting a site specific policy , and Harrogate who were being characteritured as wanting a criteria based policy . |