Example sentences of "[be] [that] they [am/are] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Latest reports are that they are breeding successfully . |
| 2 | Drawbacks are that they are carburetted , requiring much wristwork from the driver on the hefty levers which control the warm air intakes . |
| 3 | Frequently recurring criticisms of the contracts are that they are of up to nine years ' duration , they contain hidden annual increases , that the costs of settling old agreements are added to the undisclosed capital value of new equipment , and that the total cost of a contract is not disclosed . |
| 4 | Their main advantages are that they are relatively cheap , come in a wide range of sizes and styles , and can be built directly into the brickwork without the need for a sub-frame . |
| 5 | The owners of both Cool Ground and Twin Oaks are keen to run their horses and the indications are that they are likely to get their way . |
| 6 | The advantages of pods , are that they are cheap and easily replaced . |
| 7 | The disadvantages are that they are flimsy , and have many potential contact problems . |
| 8 | The disadvantages are that they are expensive and only available from Garrett outlets . |
| 9 | The two big advantages of capillary fittings are that they are considerably cheaper than compression fittings and much neater in appearance . |
| 10 | Their main disadvantages are that they are affected by jointing compound and that they may not fit through the loft hatch . |
| 11 | Now the indications are that they are likely to provide some funding though we have n't had that formally in writing yet . |
| 12 | The strengths of these people are that they are flexible , popular , and they have good listening skills . |
| 13 | But the signs are that they are going to get tough with clubs that offer idle excuses for not getting their cup-ties out of the way . |
| 14 | They are that they are that , because I tell you what it is , I do n't know |
| 15 | The traditional ‘ trade-off ’ for the secure tenure of senior British civil servants has been that they are anonymous and politically impartial . |
| 16 | The primary objection to UDCs has been that they are not directly accountable to local authorities or local people in their areas . |
| 17 | It is a debate which presumably would have appealed to Howard although his own views seem to have been that they are equally important . |
| 18 | Really and the type of documentation that they 're that they 're on about . |
| 19 | Is the product you know even a description of the product that we 're that they 're going into er will be suffice on the telephone , they do n't have to see these these these er items if they 're described in in er in enough detail . |
| 20 | I think they 're under a great pressure and you know th I think it 's erm you know , quite amazing really , that people survive as well as they do , given the pressures they 're that they are under . |
| 21 | It may be that they are in fact onycophorans , a group of arthropods now represented by caterpillar-like velvet worms that burrow through dead wood in Australia . |
| 22 | According to Mr Birchall , the answer could be that they are protected by silicon and that the main biological job of silicon is simply to help living things keep aluminium out . |
| 23 | One reason may be that they are less concentrated in low paid jobs than women . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , although it is not a reason to pass over them as Todd does , a limiting factor in the work of experimental novelists in Britain does seem , as he suggests , to be that they are consistently assigned to marginal rather than mainstream positions . |
| 25 | The modern perception of the hills , however , seems to be that they are one gigantic Butlin 's . |
| 26 | The answer seems to be that they are barely used at all . |
| 27 | And although that may mean that stars with planets are less likely to be found in places other than co-rotation orbits , the corollary would be that they are likely to be found within such orbits . |
| 28 | Could it be that they are discriminating unfairly against a gipsy family ? |
| 29 | However , definition of these latter events perhaps must be that they are unnecessitated events . |
| 30 | Despite the popular image of Japanese employees as happy and harmonious group workers the reality seems to be that they are not . |