Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [adv] be [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Possibly the only use for hedgerows today is that they help to keep people and litter out of fields , rather than animals in , but if hedges and trees were uneconomic during the war , how much more so are they today ? |
| 2 | The fear of governments always is that if people are not occupied playing competitive sports or watching TV they will be at it all the time . |
| 3 | One effect of this new competition for places locally is that the students who go to England or Scotland no longer automatically represent the elite they tended to in the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 4 | One of the difficulties , it seems to me , that exists in schools today is that the teacher has to cope with a fairly large class , and one possible advantage of having a fair number of microcomputers |
| 5 | You mentioned erm tumours , in fact you get this as I said the same picture with , with X-rays as you get with magnetic resonance imaging , but what is different about tumours apparently is that the erm relaxation time with which the erm nuclei move erm varies erm according to whether a cell is , is cancerous or not . |