Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] be [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lonely : The spiritual isolation of the disease is lonely enough but add to this the " Jekyll and Hyde " behaviour ( depending upon whether or not a drink or drug has been taken that day ) causing untold damage to family and other relationships and the loneliness becomes intense . |
| 2 | The case has been made that neutralisation is potentially attractive only to relatively minor states that by virtue of their strategic position or symbolic political value have become or threaten to become the focal points of contests for control or dominant influence between principal regional or global rivals . |
| 3 | So and this doorway has been inserted that close to the corner of the window . |
| 4 | The history of the imposition of obligations without compensation has been to push that point progressively further on and to add to the list of requirements considered to be essential to the well-being of the community . |
| 5 | ‘ If artists have the right to fail , Glasgay ! does not , ’ says D'Angelo , whose modest £65,000 budget projection has been kept that way by trying to involve many indigenous grant-aided bodies in the year one programme . |
| 6 | However , extracodes are usually distinguished by the fact that operation codes have been allocated to them at the computer hardware design level , either because they will be normal hardwired instructions in some models , or because an instruction requirement has been recognized that is uneconomic to implement in hardware . |
| 7 | Burn had been ploughing that May afternoon and was leading his horses back to the field after his tea . |
| 8 | To return to Lévi-Strauss , the point has been made that emotion need not be seen as obscure and incomprehensible , and that Freud 's importance is that he made a lasting contribution to explicating how the most obscure actions can be seen to make emotional sense . |
| 9 | Our central initiative has been to urge that Labour , with others , should mobilise a major national demonstration , plus cultural activities , that would provide a unifying focus for campaigners . |
| 10 | It was a shirt exactly like the one her singer had been wearing that night , as he swaggered among the women , and whispered ‘ Me quieres ? ’ to them all . |
| 11 | What this announcement does is put that arrangement on a formal basis . |
| 12 | Colonel Windsor 's initial reaction had been to discount that , no matter how trustworthy the source ; but now , as he reflected on it , he felt it could well be true . |
| 13 | Althusser 's procedure has been to show that , within a notion of history that seemed as if it could be invoked on its own as self-evident , there rests an entire presupposition about the conception of the social whole that is not derived from Marxist theory . |
| 14 | His achievement has been to cross that hitherto unrepresented culture into the mainstream ; to disrupt the patina of early evening viewing simply by being himself . |
| 15 | During the last decade evidence has been accumulating that fluid secretion in the small intestine is often evoked via stimulation of the enteric nervous system ( ENS ) . |
| 16 | Nor did he reimburse Alistair for the lunch , though he did explain that his wallet had been emptied that morning — by which alcoholic , Sixsmith never established . |
| 17 | She 'd found her way to Charlie through another of the contact magazines , back in the days when his wife had been handling that end of the business ; she 'd had to send along a photograph and that had gone a little against the grain — in all of her moonlighting so far , she 'd never let slip so much as her name — but everything had worked out well . |
| 18 | He had a strange sensation that for many minutes he had been holding his breath , though he could n't of course have been doing that . |
| 19 | The argument has been made that proportionality underlies decisions as diverse as those relating to the legitimacy of planning conditions or local transport policy , disciplinary actions or sex discrimination . |
| 20 | Much concern has been expressed that acid precipitation causes a reduction in forest productivity . |
| 21 | CONCERN has been expressed that emergency calls are being answered by people who may not understand local accents . |
| 22 | But in recent years concern has been growing that economic forecasts are not up to the mark . |
| 23 | A WARNING has been given that some council buildings in Clwyd may have to close if maintenance is not carried out . |
| 24 | I hear you say , DTP has been doing that for years Yes — but moving ones ? |
| 25 | Winchelsey 's pre-eminent objective had been to ensure that clerical taxation by the crown — conceded in principle at the Third Lateran Council in 1179 — was subject to clerical consent and was collected and managed by the clergy , a necessary corollary to their freedom of consent . |
| 26 | After warning had been given that poll-tax bills will average £400 ( $780 ) in April , Westminster council announced that residents will have to pay only £176 , down £19 on last year . |
| 27 | Albeit , Renee 's fame throughout the locality had been assured that night . |
| 28 | In much of the writing on the dependent elderly , the assumption has been made that retirement has become more common at an earlier age because of a reduction in the demand for elderly workers . |
| 29 | In an effort to reduce overproduction of food , the suggestion has been made that land in lowland Britain be taken out of agricultural production and forested . |
| 30 | Er if there were to be an exceptions policy the suggestion has been made that certain districts perhaps could be identified er as being a suitable location . |