Example sentences of "[be] the [noun] that [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am the fool that falls And never learns to wait and watch , Icarus eternally damned , the dupe of time … |
| 2 | It may also have been the case that magistrates were less willing to overturn the appeals of disappointed claimants , since they were well enough aware that the increasing burden of relief was being thrown on to a decreasing number of shoulders as the proportion of the village populations either needing assistance or at least no longer able to pay poor rates increased . |
| 3 | One aspect that has been somewhat modified by further curriculum development projects , has been the implication that pupils were not receptive to certain ways of thinking until certain stages in their development . |
| 4 | A more significant objection has been the charge that leys involve marker sites that vary tremendously in age . |
| 5 | Built into most policy development over the past four decades , even anti-sexist and anti-racist initiatives , has been the assumption that girls and black pupils are ‘ problems ’ ; that they either have problems or pose problems that are different from other groups of pupils . |
| 6 | A major problem for climatologists has been the fact that temperatures in the southern hemisphere have risen more than in the northern hemisphere . |
| 7 | There has always been the suspicion that values applied in cultural and moral spheres were far from impartial . |
| 8 | One of the major reasons , however , for the interest in resource-based learning has been the recognition that children must learn , during the course of their schooling , to be increasingly self-sufficient in learning , to become the " independent autonomous learners " most fitted to survive in a society undergoing constant change , and in the context of the knowledge explosion . |
| 9 | Well of all the crimes we deal with , these are the ones that police officers really get annoyed about . |
| 10 | Such problems are the kind that politicians and diplomats are meant to solve . |
| 11 | Even more valuable are the shelters that children improvise for themselves . |
| 12 | Presumably , the closer the referents of the familiar terms in a domain are to the potential referent of an unfamiliar word , the more specific are the inferences that children can legitimately make . |
| 13 | ‘ Zero defects ’ are the goal that suppliers must strive to achieve in terms of quality . |
| 14 | Insurance companies pay most punitive damages because they themselves are the defendants that juries are most likely to punish substantially . |
| 15 | So are the worms that fishermen hunt , in order to impale them , live and wriggling , on their hooks . |
| 16 | These principles essentially define the subject : they are the bearings that teachers need to take in order to plot their course . |
| 17 | These , naturally , are the shares that foreigners tend to own . |
| 18 | It used to be the law that orders for certiorari and prohibition were available only against decision-makers who had a duty to act judicially . |
| 19 | A less-technical example would be the problems that comets posed for the ordered and full Aristotelian cosmos of interconnected crystalline spheres . |
| 20 | However , even where a less rigid gender division of labour prevails , it seems to be the case that women commonly act as the ‘ kin keepers ’ , that is to say , the people who keep up regular contacts with members of the wider kin group . |
| 21 | Positive action rather than positive discrimination is the approach , and that , these are targets not erm , contracts , and if after four to eight years , it may well be the case that women have been taken on and have left and at the end of the time , that there there is no woman chartered engineer . |
| 22 | It used to be the case that games written for an 8086 processor were unplayable on a 286 machine , so developers included special code in their programs which would slow the game down to make sure that , as far as possible , the game played at the same speed on every class of machine . |
| 23 | It used to be the case that contestants who were struck lightly in the face could exaggerate injury in order to have the opponent 's score disallowed . |
| 24 | However , this example serves to emphasize how misleading it can be to assume that the breeding sex ratio necessarily reflects the extent to which male reproductive success varies for , even among closely related species , it is likely to be the case that males have substantially longer breeding lifespans in monogamous species than in polygynous ones ( see Wiley , 1974 ; Clutton-Brock et al . , |
| 25 | It will always be the case that sets of standard terms and conditions contain a number of miscellaneous conditions , falling either within the popular designation of " boilerplate " , or else specifically tailored to the type of transaction that the standard set of terms is designed to cover . |
| 26 | Indeed , it now seemed to be the case that men did not marry women unless they had had sexual relations with them beforehand . |
| 27 | Reinforcing this pattern may be the fact that girls in class fall into a role they assume to be the natural order , taking second place to boys . |
| 28 | In the examination of the ‘ restructuring ’ of the Lancaster economy , a particular focus will be the place that women play in different service sectors and in their social and political practices . |
| 29 | If the ratio is too low , there will be the risk that customers ' demands may not be able to be met : this would cause a crisis of confidence and Possible closure . |
| 30 | Chairman , if I could just er , erm , some words that are n't included in this pa paper , I understand that the Deregulation Bill is published on the eighteenth erm , and presented to Parliament for the first reading , erm , it 's still far from clear what 's going to be said in it , but erm , it 's still widely expected that in fact , on major contentious issues will in fact be the suggestion that sections of Acts of Parliament will , could be revealed by ministerial order rather than go through the parliamentary process again . |