Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun prp] [be] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thing that I found most striking about Harwich was that there was so much sky around . |
| 2 | You can do some of Richard 's that I 'm supposed |
| 3 | What was really wrong with Eldorado was that nobody really cared much about what happened to the characters . |
| 4 | Modigliani 's style was so entirely different from Picasso 's that the two were in no way rivals . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , what was not made clear to George was that Frank had an extremely ambitious , though very pleasant , wife who insisted on participating in events to the exclusion of George , who had a very proper concern for himself . |
| 6 | Marx 's main quarrel with writers such as Maine is that they see the communal aspect of the descent group as growing out of the expansion of the family . |
| 7 | And the most impressive and frightening and metropolitan thing of all about London was that it was where Bob lived . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , former Pink Floyd member Roger Waters has attacked Madonna in the most recent issue of Details magazine : ‘ What 's extraordinary about Madonna is that she 's made all these rotten records , and she 's this awful , ugly , dull person who — by virtue of the fact that she 's completely fearless and shameless and blatant and cheap and bad — has become successful , ’ he says . |
| 9 | One of my reasons for becoming involved in Westland was that I felt in some respects that I owed them something . |
| 10 | The main conclusion drawn is not only that modern scientific notions of time are in many ways puzzling and paradoxical ; even more important for Shallis is that the essential quality of our actual experience of time is left out of such treatments altogether . |
| 11 | Their soft , fleshy , heavy contours — hardly the image of the perceived quintessential woman — were those of professional painters ' models ; what was important for Penn was that they were comfortable with their own bodies and not shy of intimacy with the camera . |
| 12 | Their soft , fleshy , heavy contours — hardly the image of the perceived quintessential woman — were those of professional painters ' models ; what was important for Penn was that they were comfortable with their own bodies and not shy of intimacy with the camera . |
| 13 | The second major difference between RENFE 's unions and those in BR is that the Spanish unions are not grade-based but compete across the board for membership . |
| 14 | Another first for Leese was that Stamford was the only place in the country where Fascists fought and won an election , for in contesting an election Leese broke the cardinal rule of the British Fascists never to intervene in the despised democratic system . |
| 15 | He did bring a picture with him : one of Gifford 's that Edwin was going to frame for us . ’ |
| 16 | What is worrying about Nautilus is that the quality of its retina suggests that it would really benefit , greatly and immediately , from a lens . |
| 17 | well between the two between the two no the only between the two in Glasgow is that you 've got to cover it all anyway |
| 18 | What we did n't realise at the time was that one of the main reasons that Malcolm was so keen on John was that he was so like Richard Hell — who was one of Malcolm s mates in New York . |
| 19 | One thing which drew George close to Lennie was that he was lonely . |