Example sentences of "[be] the [noun] that [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 From 1066 to 1558 France had been the country that England would fight if she was going to fight anyone , but for over a hundred years that role of the perpetual enemy had been taken by Spain or — in the minds of a few people — by the Netherlands .
2 They were considered , both of them considered , both of them considered erm but it is my recollection that erm been the inference that Mr had made the telephone calls himself .
3 The evidence suggests that community policing has not been the panacea that Lord Scarman envisaged .
4 And even more fun had been the fact that James Pegg had not been present ; secure in his knowledge , as he thought , that Alfred was taking an extra lesson in quenelles cookery from Mr Didier .
5 Those are the reasons that South Africa have put forward — or , more correctly , have had put forward on their behalf — for hosting the show .
6 Well those are the ones that Matthew we should n't have bought you new trainers when you 'd got these .
7 Particularly harrowing are the reports that De Klerk 's political liberalisation ( as far as it goes ) has resulted in many police officers resigning and joining right wing commandos .
8 There are the jellyfish that Ediacara would lead us to expect .
9 Two factors that have influenced the way these have been developed are the principle that Davidson believes in , that ‘ what is measured gets done ’ , and his experiences in dealing with boards and managers at the coalface in retail banking .
10 The choices she faces are the choices that India itself was making at the time . ’
11 We are the people that God has equipped , for this time in history , in our city and neighbourhood , for the specific needs of the people around us .
12 Fig 5 ) These are the chords that Bryan plays during the bridge of Summer Of 69 .
13 Amongst the criticisms of UK financial institutions are the allegations that UK banks place too great an emphasis on lending to consumers , whereas overseas banks are primarily concerned with long-term industrial finance .
14 This however proved to be the catalyst that Bowran needed to set up on his own .
15 It does seem to be the case that Fuchs was very poorly served by his finance director Cees List .
16 It may well be the case that Freud lost some of his earlier desire to see psychoanalysis help to achieve sexual reform .
17 It may simply be the case that Boswell , seeing that Johnson chose not to mention Culloden , took the same course of action .
18 The eastern Saxons are almost certain to have remained at this time within the orbit of Oswiu and it may also be the case that Aethelwald , the brother of Aethelhere ( HE 111 , 22 ) ( see Appendix , Fig. 5 ) , received Oswiu 's support as the new king of the eastern Angles ; it is certainly not at all impossible that he ruled at first in a dependent relationship .
19 What happens there is that a ‘ really gay ’ reading of Coward is put into play , much as I have already done with Brief Encounter , but on the grounds that a homosexual writer can only write about homosexuality ( analogous cases would be the insistence that Edward Albee 's Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf is ‘ really ’ about a gay couple , or that Tennessee Williams 's Blanche Dubois is nothing but a transposed drag queen ) .
20 These appear to be the assumptions that Musgrave had in mind : ‘ that the size distribution of income originating in various industries is the same [ or ] there is a random relationship between the distributional origin of expenditures on any particular product and the distributional destination of factor payments ’ ( Musgrave , et al. , 1964 , p. 201 ) .
21 Erm , but in fact , the way that I use it er , would not be the way that Andy uses it , the way that Andy uses it would not be the way that Martin uses it , it does not necessarily mean that any of us are wrong .
22 Erm , but in fact , the way that I use it er , would not be the way that Andy uses it , the way that Andy uses it would not be the way that Martin uses it , it does not necessarily mean that any of us are wrong .
23 Another reason for the relatively slow acceptance of the term counterurbanization in Britain may be the fact that Britain may have been one of the last developed countries to experience the phenomenon .
24 The evidence for this assumption seems in the end to be the fact that Taskopruzade uses for the first time in relation to Molla Fenari a distinctly official-sounding title which appears to encompass the entire Ottoman state , namely ; but it must be reiterated that there is no evidence in Taskopruzade 's account to suggest that this appointment occurred in the time of Murad II rather than earlier , perhaps in the time of Mehmed I or even of Bayezid I.
25 Sun 's other weak point may be the fact that WABI 's Praxsys creators come from BIOS house Phoenix Technologies Ltd where they would have had access to MS-DOS .
26 Sun 's other weak point may be the fact that WABI 's Praxsys creators come from BIOS house Phoenix Technologies Ltd , where they would have had access to MS-DOS , although Phoenix was one of the pioneers of the concept of the clean room , where no-one that has any inside knowledge of the code being emulated is allowed to come into contact with the developers of the emulation .
27 At least , this might be the view that Norton-Taylor wishes to promote but it is not readily evident in his book .
28 This seems to be the view that President Bush has accepted .
29 But most welcome for the channel will be the news that Wordperfect will not be setting up its own consultancy arm a la Microsoft and Lotus .
30 It could be the key that Corosini had demanded in his letter .
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