Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [be] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taylor pointed out one of the things about great players who are given freedom is that they work very hard , and Gascoigne is prepared to do that , even in the knowledge that he has been given a special licence . |
| 2 | The only good news in the act for those who sell houses is that it is not a criminal offence to omit information unless an omission results in a statement being misleading . |
| 3 | ‘ Maybe what upset Dustin was that he knew that , although he was the better actor , Steve 's performance in Papillon was superior , ’ commented Norman Jewison , who had directed McQueen in The Cincinnati Kid and The Thomas Crown Affair , but who never worked with Dustin . |
| 4 | The trouble with most biographies and press releases is that they are boring — very , very boring indeed . |
| 5 | Disadvantages said to be attendant upon a duty to provide reasons are that it can stifle the exercise of discretion and overburden the administration . |
| 6 | Here the desires of the vendor and Newco may converge because the problem for Newco in acquiring goodwill is that it will reduce Newco 's distributable profits as it must be written off in the profit and loss account , unless it can be written off against the share premium account . |
| 7 | What the charter does promise patients is that they ‘ will be given a fixed appointment time and be seen within 30 minutes or be kept informed of any delay . ’ |
| 8 | The reason we want regionalisation is that we are the only country within the European Community as it now stands , bar Luxembourg and Ireland , not to have regional Government , regional co-ordination of our economic policies and a proper role for the regions to link across Europe . |
| 9 | What causes offence is that he merely represents a shifting of values for the mass of young people . |
| 10 | In short , one way of understanding Burgess is that he is describing the moral careers of immigrants ; some successfully adapting and eventually living in what they and respectable Chicago society saw as the ‘ front regions ’ of the desirable suburbs . |
| 11 | One thing that worries parents about their children becoming vegetarian is that they might lack protein . |
| 12 | I am sure that one of the things that prevents us from accepting help is that we think other people wo n't do things the way we do them . |
| 13 | What results from this is that we might be led to think that the problem with defining God is that there is a whole range of ideas about the divine being that tend to produce no very clear overall picture . |
| 14 | The point about picking currants was that there was absolutely no temptation to eat the crop . |
| 15 | So even if we agree that abolition was his intention and that that intention would have failed , if we consider also that it was mistaken anyway , we need pursue the point no further , except to add this : granted that the evil of insufficiently regulated competition is that it leads ultimately to the vicious exploitation of employees , the point can hardly be made of industrial co-operatives . |
| 16 | One thing I did learn from loving Paul was that I was n't in love with David . |
| 17 | Can I just say at this point that erm John will happ had a word with the landlady and the landlord of the Reindeer , with regards to this application , and what the landlady told John was that she and her husband would dearly like to do away with the breeze block garage that is there , that is totally out of character , and extend the car park way back to the garages , but the brewery are insisting that they do what is planned here and do away with some of the |
| 18 | Clearly , then , one answer to our question of how banks create money is that they do so by increasing their lending , provided that they are prepared to accept a change in their portfolio composition . |
| 19 | One reason why people in our area consistently vote Labour is that they are told by the Opposition that the whole country owes them a living and that everything that has happened to them — the economic misfortunes of past years — has been inflicted purposely by a Conservative Government . |
| 20 | Trivial or shallow , in particular , are criticisms levelled at young women for their concern over their appearance ; one of the worst current insults you can throw at an actress or pop star is that she 's a bimbo — concerned only with her looks and nothing else . |
| 21 | One of the many compliments that can be paid this finely produced book is that it is worth reading from cover to cover . |
| 22 | An incidental advantage of splitting pupillage is that you thereby become known in two places instead of one . |
| 23 | The over- riding point was that there should be more part-time specialist posts because the anti-social hours are simply incompatible with family life . |
| 24 | It has been suggested that the real reason Judas betrayed Jesus was that he wanted him to be a popular Messiah who would drive out the Romans . |
| 25 | The reason for installing QRAM is that I 've been repeatedly informed that one should always free up as much Conventional memory as possible . |
| 26 | The trouble with most finance people is that they see things only in terms of money . |
| 27 | The problem facing surgeons is that they do n't have the time to devote to research . |
| 28 | The most obvious definition for labouring poets is that it includes all those whose support normally depended on manual work , either their own or that of their families . |
| 29 | Another problem facing NAB is that it does not wish to be seen solely as a negative force , acting on behalf of the DES in closing courses , but more constructively to encourage new , worthwhile initiatives . |
| 30 | Over the years , I have seen so many private gardens and advised so many gardeners on labour-saving tools and equipment , and what comes through loud and clear is that the biggest problem facing gardeners is that they are caught in the trap between growing all they would like to grow , doing all they want to do and having the lime to do it . |