Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun prp] [be] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All you need to know about Brian is that in the Sixties one of his friends send him a postcard of planet Earth with a message saying : ‘ Wish you were here . ’ |
| 2 | All you need to know about Maxwell is that if everybody behaved as he did , the economy would soon collapse in an explosion of selfish parasitism . |
| 3 | One of the great things about mountain walking in Austria is that no matter where you go , you never seem to be far from a mountain hut serving food and drinks to refresh you . |
| 4 | The most interesting fact revealed about Norma is that the poor dear is obviously deranged . |
| 5 | The first thing to be said about Bateman is that he was a Londoner ! |
| 6 | One of the objections frequently made about CAI is that it does not permit student-student interaction . |
| 7 | And something else I learnt in Saint-Jean is that where there is one superior restaurant there will be other good ones , not rivals so much as supporters ; this in my experience is a particularly good town to dine in . |
| 8 | What is odd about the comparison made in Webb is that the comparison is used as the evidence to show that the unfavourable treatment is not gender related rather than as the basis of a comparison for similar treatment . |
| 9 | Its principal aim , according to Mellor is that there should be ‘ something for everyone in all parts of the country , and that everyone should have an opportunity to try something new and widen their horizons ’ . |
| 10 | The most important assertion made by Klaus is that there were two waves of labouring poets in the century , the first following Duck 's success in the early 1730s , and the second in the 1770s . |
| 11 | One of the reasons I forgot about Ohio was that I wanted to forget that unhappy period of my life . |
| 12 | The thing that makes me believe in God is that there 's a special kind of weather on Sundays . |
| 13 | What happened in Panama was that when the other 50 photographers showed up the Americans went on some mock patrols in some neighbourhoods where there was nothing ; it was basically a photo-op for the press . |
| 14 | Erm the overall picture as you can see in June is that we revised the budget to show at this moment if this trend continues a deficit of two thousand pounds . |
| 15 | It was as though the recent remarks of John Major had been anticipated as the exhibition was already running when he expressed concern over the future of manufacturing industry in the U.K. One reference to the exhibition by Campbell Christie , General Secretary , Scottish T.U.C. stated ‘ The problem we face in Britain is that we do n't manufacture enough of what we consume . |
| 16 | The partnership is not really working , although of course erm what happened on Saturday was that after an awful pasting during the week verbally from Mick their manager , and indeed having both been brought off very controversially at Molyneux last Tuesday evening , both substituted in the closing stages when Notts were losing and both strikers we er were brought off , you could n't get much more controversial tha that by a manager could you ? |
| 17 | ‘ I think what happened to Fishbane was that years ago people told him he was a bit of a dog and he therefore confuses licentiousness with lustiness . ’ |
| 18 | A problem with the design used by Spear is that there is no guarantee that the two groups learned equally readily during aversive training with the odour cue . |
| 19 | What I like about Mark is that he 's not afraid to be funny with the crowd . |
| 20 | All the cops know about Mahoney is that he worked for Joey Bonanza . |
| 21 | What I know of Moscow is that you keep your nose clean and do the work you 've set out to achieve , and that way there 's no hassle . |
| 22 | The main stumbling block for Drouot and other auction houses that want to deal with Russia is that the old export regulations ban any external trade in works of art created before 1945 . |
| 23 | In fact , one of the things that had pleased her about her daughter staying in London was that it kept her away from Seaton Cramer Hall . |
| 24 | THE trouble with the European leaders gathered in Edinburgh is that they wo n't take No for an answer . |
| 25 | An interesting warning can be gathered from Pooley 's that remaining in such an area for more than one minute risks possible harm from radiation . |
| 26 | What is known about Jane is that she lived in a cellar in Wisbech , earning her living by reaping in the fields in the summer and spinning wool and flax in the winter . |
| 27 | He went on to say that the unanimous view of the High Court judges in Scotland was that the Scottish courts should remain the responsibility of the United Kingdom and not become the responsibility of the Scottish Assembly . |
| 28 | In Mark and Matthew 's Gospels , the charge brought to Pilate was that Jesus claimed to be ‘ the King of the Jews ’ . |
| 29 | The exhibition most deliberately linked to Columbus was that at the Musée Barbier-Mueller in Geneva , the catalogue for which is a magnificent book , written by eight authors , half of whose essays were translated into French ( Spanish and Catalan editions are available but not an English translation ) . |
| 30 | One of the things he had learned since coming to Egypt was that the country had its rhythms and that if you were going to get anywhere you had to work with them and not against them . |