Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [noun] [be] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason there have been few accidents is that the road is so dangerous pedestrians avoid it and both Scorton residents and the many visitors to the area are denied pedestrian access to the village . |
| 2 | The reason why there are fewer disconnections is that the electricity companies have introduced card meters , so that people cut themselves off rather than having to be cut off by the electricity companies . |
| 3 | One reason why officers were instructed to be friendly disciplinarians is that Smith , once again echoing public-school sentiments , consciously strove to prolong boyhood for as long as possible . |
| 4 | The great thing about Dave and Max being such perfectionists is that when they were both pleased with something I 'd figure , ‘ Hey , I must be doing something really right here ! ’ |
| 5 | Another very important reason why many teenagers were temporary workers is that they were Simultaneously participants in special government employment measures . |
| 6 | The Conference 's working assumption was that all incursions from Lagos were to be resisted ; the reason invariably given was that only the Residents had enough knowledge and experience of the mysteries of Indirect Rule to be entrusted with its execution . |
| 7 | Before the US Justice Department brought its indictment of the Libyans on 14 November , 1991 , the intelligence community 's working theory was that the bombing of the Boeing 747 had been a co-ordinated effort of Syria , Libya and Iran . |
| 8 | I think the idea is that Sun is that they see it as somebody 's gone poof poof want to be to write quickly and they would argue that a Sun reader has a sharp attention span . |
| 9 | Where 's where 's that butter is that know whether it 's butter or not . |
| 10 | I mean that that 's another alternative is that we do n't bother with pictures . |
| 11 | no this is this week 's that I , I missed out on them . |
| 12 | Do n't let it slip straight away , I mean That was annoying thing is that we did n't deserve to lose three one really , I mean |
| 13 | But he pulled thing was sorry thing was that he pulled the one next to the one that he had a toothache in . |
| 14 | A major reason why there was such variation was that the studies used quite different case definitions of sexual abuse , many of which included a number of elements . |