Example sentences of "[be] the [noun] that [noun] " 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 | One of these promising directions has been the realisation that conservation is as much about social processes as physical ones , and that the major constraints are not technical ( in the agricultural engineering sense ) , but social . |
| 3 | An important factor in achieving this success has been the requirement that management should report progress against financial targets on a monthly basis to a Committee which I chair and also at regular meetings of the Board . |
| 4 | To speak differently , if e had not occurred , then even if there had also occurred any change x logically consistent with the absences of e and of cc , and consistent with the absences of links between cc and e , it would also have been the case that cc did not occur . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It has generally been the case that people who leave the DUP see their political careers terminated . |
| 7 | Whenever there has been a change within television in this country there has always been the accusation that quality would suffer . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A prime theme has been the argument that group formation is often of survival value to individuals in gaining a social cover from predation ( p. 52 ) . |
| 12 | The evidence suggests that community policing has not been the panacea that Lord Scarman envisaged . |
| 13 | A more significant objection has been the charge that leys involve marker sites that vary tremendously in age . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | A major problem for climatologists has been the fact that temperatures in the southern hemisphere have risen more than in the northern hemisphere . |
| 17 | A representative assessment is that given by the library manager : I would say that one of the biggest advantages was the fact that senior management … from the Head down , from the very word go , were after making it a success … one thing we have got is a greater awareness from a greater number of staff , because they come in here to supervise and help [ and ] get involved … but I think the biggest advantage has been the fact that time devoted to … library skills for all the first year … [ has ] been extended to an hour a week … |
| 18 | Moderator in the course of my lifetime I believe one of the big changes within a family has been the fact that grace is no longer said at meal times . |
| 19 | There has always been the suspicion that values applied in cultural and moral spheres were far from impartial . |
| 20 | One major concern in creating this structure seems to have been the recognition that competition in generation was feasible and capable in principle of producing cost reductions , but that the structure of the interrelationship between generation and distribution had to be carefully designed . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Then there are the stories that surface with remarkable consistency throughout the NAP 's history , stories of stable activist organisations overrun by blocs of party members who attempt to steer the group into the Newmanite orbit . |
| 23 | Those are the reasons that South Africa have put forward — or , more correctly , have had put forward on their behalf — for hosting the show . |
| 24 | Well of all the crimes we deal with , these are the ones that police officers really get annoyed about . |
| 25 | Well those are the ones that Matthew we should n't have bought you new trainers when you 'd got these . |
| 26 | I do think it 's a difficult one , but I do feel there is a limit to the number , and therefore we should be careful that the ones we agree to are the ones that interest local people . |
| 27 | If you get a four paragraph story on the letters page , you 're home , if you 've got a full page or a two paragraph story on the sports page , you should go out and celebrate and , because those are the ones that people read and look at and that 's what 's important to them and that 's you know that 's that message that you . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Such problems are the kind that politicians and diplomats are meant to solve . |
| 30 | Even more valuable are the shelters that children improvise for themselves . |