Example sentences of "[num] [noun] be [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another difficulty of the last 11 or 12 years is that we have always faced west , towards the United States of America . |
| 2 | One potential criticism of the pH/pCO 2 method is that investigators may be measuring dissolved CO 2 in perfusing solution that has diffused as CO 2 gas down a mucosa to lumen concentration gradient , rather than occurring due to secreted bicarbonate ions . |
| 3 | One distinct advantage of metformin over the sulphonylureas in obese Type 2 patients is that it does tend to suppress appetite and certainly therapy is usually associated with weight loss ( Taylor et al , 1982 ) . |
| 4 | Whilst the policy of this requirement — classifying attacks on persons engaged in law enforcement as especially serious — is perfectly understandable , one result of the wording of section 18 of the 1861 Act is that D can be convicted of this offence ( with a maximum penalty of life imprisonment ) if he simply pushes a police-officer in order to prevent an arrest , and the officer loses balance , falls awkwardly , and suffers serious injury . |
| 5 | Cos one of the things that I said , you know , just when I was looking through the last five or six months is that it did seem er , to be inconsistent in terms of certain areas like the first floor , there 's an awful lot of reporting going on but , there was very little from the other , from the other areas . |
| 6 | Then within the team 's , in the Policy Team there were three Policy Development Officer 's , in the Neighbourhood Development Team there were two Development Officer 's and in the Community Development Team there are one , two , there are well there are normally six officer 's that you could I that you could identify , but there are other people that relate to them , but then it gets a bit complicated so were keep it at that . |
| 7 | Furthermore , the original intention of the 1984 Act was that the burden of proof should rest on potential proprietors to demonstrate suitability , and Harman and Harman claim that the reverse of this is happening with local authorities having to prove unsuitability . |
| 8 | And what Mr says in respect of er those three offences is that erm the officer , he accepts , did tell him that he was obliged to produce the documents to a police station but he says that he was suffering some shock as a result of the road accident and er he did n't appreciate what the officer was saying to him at the time and , never having had to produce his documents at the police station before , er he had never er known that that was a procedure that had to be followed . |
| 9 | The fourth characteristic of each of the three countries is that they have had the luck to avoid the worst of the droughts which have badly affected agriculture and hydro-electric power supplies in many African countries in the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 10 | The most ambitious of the three catalogues is that from Brussels , which includes art from Pole to Pole . |
| 11 | One of the reasons why the polytechnics have done so well in the past 21 years is that a clear decision was taken by Governments of both parties to separate funding and quality control . |
| 12 | If the answer to any of these three questions is that the restraint goes further than required , the restrictive covenant is likely to infringe Article 85(1) . |
| 13 | The only thing that unites these three arrangements is that in each case a minority class rules and takes the surplus away from the producers . |
| 14 | The significance of these three relations is that through them subjects are constituted and although the relations have a relation to each other , none is reducible to any other . |
| 15 | ‘ What I like about the three guys is that they actually care about that . |
| 16 | The answer to the first of those three points is that the Home Secretary will shortly be publishing his promised and much looked forward to paper on criminal prevention . |
| 17 | Another difference between the characterization of Alison and that of the three men is that she is seen totally from the outside — one sees her appearance in her face and her clothes ; we see what actions she does . |
| 18 | What I find fascinating about these eight pages is that they are sustained by rage — by a controlled yet immense rage against a government which could allow its veterans to die — and that Hemingway has the skill to let his anger unroll , rather like one of the giant waves caused by the hurricane , until his readers are held afloat upon it . |
| 19 | What the Samaritan document adds to II Maccabees is that the Samaritans petitioned the king for the name of their temple . |
| 20 | All that was in essence known to HQ 5 Corps was that the greater number of these people were " Cossacks " or " Russians " making up various units who had found themselves in Austria because to a greater or lesser extent they had been associated with the Germans , and had surrendered to the British in the hope that they might thus avoid falling into the hands of the Communists . |
| 21 | The depressing news for the Iron Lady who ruled Britain for 11 years is that nine out of ten can not recall the day she quit , according to research revealed yesterday at the British Psychological Society 's London conference . |
| 22 | The obvious danger under the 1981 arrangements is that , given the overwhelming percentage of votes from outside the Commons , a new Leader might have little support in the PLP . |
| 23 | The effect of the pre-enrolment registration of Stage I and of the term 2 registration of Stage II modules is that all subsequent minor changes are to an agreed , full programme . |
| 24 | One significant feature of the 1977 Act is that under s8 the jus tertii may be pleaded , thereby , giving the court power to settle competing claims in one set of proceedings . |
| 25 | THE cry of SPRED for the past 25 years is that ‘ No-one believes alone ’ . |
| 26 | One significant advance in the last ten years is that there are now specialist forensic psychiatry services in most Health Service Regions , and most Regions have constructed special Regional Secure Units ( RSUs ) where mentally disturbed offenders can be assessed . |
| 27 | What I found when I looked at this problem over the course of ten years was that this complexity , like responsibility time span , also occurs in leaps or jumps . |
| 28 | One difficulty is that prising apart the imposition of duties from other effects of the exercise of authority is far from straightforward . |
| 29 | One difficulty is that the approach is not sufficiently general : many words do not in any straightforward way denote classes of potential referents ( consider air , some , usually , however ) . |
| 30 | One difficulty is that , like geriatric medicine , rehabilitation medicine in the past has been regarded within the profession as a ‘ soft option ’ bringing limited benefits , being unexciting and scarcely medicine . |