Example sentences of "[noun] that [noun] [is] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Communist regimes , by pointing at high growth rates , could once justify this squeeze on the consumer as an investment for the future , but with low rates of growth it becomes obvious to a work force that gratification is being denied rather than simply deferred . |
| 2 | The background to all of this is knowledge on the part of the creditor that security is being taken from the surety for the benefit of the debtor and that the surety is a person who is likely to be influenced by and to have some degree of reliance on the debtor . |
| 3 | She tells Karen that Victor is being excluded from school indefinitely for bullying and for kicking Joan . |
| 4 | For the layman , the question that matters is was she right ? |
| 5 | The architect Richard MacCormac said , ‘ I believe there is a danger that classicism is being used as a cure-all architectural pill , when architecture has got a lot more to it than just putting in columns and capitals . |
| 6 | The Welsh-medium schools provide a first-class education and I am happy to tell my hon. Friend that Welsh is being taught in eight out of 10 primary schools in Wales and in nine out of 10 secondary schools . |
| 7 | As they work through their problems , the ‘ naughty ’ child behaves better and the ‘ good ’ child grows more troublesome , a sign that balance is being restored . |
| 8 | He says we feel the numbers justify the claim that prison is being used in a strategic way against asylum seekers . |
| 9 | Tell him to leave it three or four days , then to notify his cousin that Steiner is being moved to St Mary 's Priory . ’ |
| 10 | Now , though , comes the word that Confederacy is being developed by Ivan Reitman — coming up soon in Ghostbusters II , which he also wrote — and if all goes well , he will be directing it for 20th Century Fox . |
| 11 | ‘ There is great national concern that homosexuality is being financially promoted to the detriment of normal family relationships ... |
| 12 | There are , of course , further complications , notably in the form of Cherubino , an adolescent page-boy who is romantically in love with the countess ( a feeling which is almost mutual , and to which the count takes exception ) , and in the fact that Figaro is being pursued by an old harpy named Marcellina , who is trying to trick him into marriage with her . |
| 13 | They simply point to the fact that language is being produced and do not involve any questions of psychological reality . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ It reflects the fact that recovery is being affected by world economic circumstances . |