Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [that] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But their limitation has been that they can only be used when all the well data is available — after it has been drilled . |
| 2 | By contrast , the policy of successive British Governments has been that we should make and announce a decision formally ‘ recognising ’ the new government . |
| 3 | She finished by saying , ‘ And his only sorrow , for some months , has been that he could not find you , his former friend . ’ |
| 4 | Japan 's stance over what it calls its Northern Territories has been that there can be no peace treaty between the two countries until all four of the islands ( Etorofu , Kunashiri , Shikotan and Habomai ) are returned . |
| 5 | What few people seem to accept is that he might be exactly what he appears to be . |
| 6 | What this rush to a newer , more gorgeous you fails to accept is that you ca n't keep up the pace forever . |
| 7 | What matters is that something should be done to give us jobs and money to live on . |
| 8 | The reason that the Dalai Lama was included is that it will be an Inter-faith meeting . |
| 9 | I am saying Mr Major , as Prime Minister , if someone in my position is saying I believe , I believe , there is the best opportunity here for lasting peace , by which I mean a total cessation of violence , the least I expect is that you should listen to what I have to say . |
| 10 | The only thing I do know is that something must be done to get her away from here … anywhere . ’ |
| 11 | What we do know is that they can have extremely unpleasant effects . |
| 12 | It has to be possible to dream and speak the unthinkable , for the only thing that we do know is that we shall not know what tomorrow 's world will be like . |
| 13 | ‘ The one thing I do know is that he will be at the inquest . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ The one thing I do know is that he will be at the inquest into the death of L/Cpl Edwards . |
| 15 | If you buy a ‘ Rolex ’ watch for £50 , you know it 's unlikely to be genuine , but what you would n't know is that it may only be worth £5 . |
| 16 | I do n't know what my future style will be but the one thing I do know is that I will keep on changing . ’ |
| 17 | But er what we say is that we will pay thirty percent up to a hundred miles away from home |
| 18 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 19 | What this illustrates is that you ca n't take an institution at face value any more and certainly should n't select or dismiss an institution on your ( or your parents ' ) first impression . |
| 20 | The way it 's going to work is that we will er that the first thing is to invite applications . |
| 21 | A second approach Bush mentioned was that he would meet the 150 or so new House of Representatives members before they become captives of the leadership or the lobbyists . |
| 22 | So we may want to introduce a more sophisticated mechanism for determining what the desired level of supply is and what we 'll do is that we 'll say this is actually a special case of a much more general , er more s sophisticated . |
| 23 | Let's call that equation one seven er in actual fact what we 'll do is that we 'll put a random random error term on the end as well just to say that this is , rule is not perfect and there will be some fluctuations around it . |
| 24 | Now , what the potential migrant will do , Harrison Todaro assumed , was to say , right what they 'll do is that they 'll , these migrants will mentally calculate the present value of receiving W A throughout their lifetime , right , and they 'll discount erm those wages by appropriate discount rate , reflecting the fact that a hundred pounds today is worth a lot more than a hundred pounds twenty years ' time or thirty years ' time . |
| 25 | Er what we 'll do is that I 'll give you another eight of these , now if they 're a lot better just s give a ring in |
| 26 | . What I 'll do is that I 'll final of action shortly and I 'll tu |
| 27 | Now then all we 're doing , what we should have done is that we should have had an opening balance at the beginni or the end of December when the di information was first struck . |
| 28 | The beauty of this kind of patterning is that you can produce really exciting and elaborate designs with the simplest machines . |
| 29 | What it says is that it would be self-contradictory to posit something as a topic , while denying the possibility of referring to this something with the phrase " the same A " . |
| 30 | And what he says is that you can see people on a continuum . |