Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [be] [that] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our experience of people in that condition is that they are not in a steady state so , rightly , the prescription must be altered almost day by day according to the pain of the patient . |
| 2 | What is significant about formal markers of this kind is that they achieve two related effects in academic writing ( as in discourse more generally ) . |
| 3 | Another advantage is that they have fairly flexible admissions standards . |
| 4 | All that can be said from this direction is that they are not getting any easier . |
| 5 | The thing that makes this worse is that they really have meant well and were , I believe genuinely concerned . |
| 6 | The answer to this question was that they had other means of transport . |
| 7 | The reason for thinking that chloroplasts have this origin is that they still retain their own DNA and their own protein-synthesizing machinery . |
| 8 | ‘ My hope with some people is that they do n't stay any longer than they need to . |
| 9 | But the answer to this riddle is that they have a receptor , most probably in the brain , that enables light detection to bypass normal , ocular channels . |
| 10 | The fascination of this paper is that they bring together philosophy and psychology empirically in a way that has value for the busy social work practitioner . |
| 11 | The effect of this responsiveness is that they are well able to foster innovation , as they look for inventive solutions to emerging problems , but they are in no position to protect those innovations from fluctuating demand . |
| 12 | The reason they have this versatility is that they are able to join up with no fewer than four other atoms at a time , to form chains or networks . |
| 13 | The key to this paradox is that they were talking about different kinds of capitalists . |
| 14 | Another suggestion is that they were put there by shepherds so that they could find their way off the fell in bad weather , the idea being that by the number of cairns the shepherds would be able to tell where they were and by the pattern they could know which direction to follow . |
| 15 | The disadvantage of using these troops in this way is that they are very expensive , and it 's easy to lose such a small unit to a hit from a war machine or good archery . |
| 16 | The reason for the preserving and passing on of the traditions in this way was that they were used primarily by the early Church in its teaching of the community . |
| 17 | One of the reasons why Continental and American water fittings such as taps and showers can not be used in this country is that they are designed for use with high-pressure hot and cold water supplies . |
| 18 | The reason that the protest was n't accepted by the courts in this country was that they had not protested with equivalent vigour at an earlier stage when the looted antiquities first appeared on the market . |
| 19 | Another problem was that they bought too few , regardless of their origin . |
| 20 | Another possibility was that they , Jasper and Bert and the others — herself included — would be tested . |
| 21 | His submission in this regard is that they have now been ‘ read to or by the court , or referred to , in open court ’ within the meaning of R.S.C. , Ord. 24 , r. 14A — introduced with effect from 1 October 1987 following Home Office v. Harman [ 1983 ] 1 A.C. 280 as part of the friendly settlement resulting from Miss Harman 's successful application before the European Commission of Human Rights . |
| 22 | The use or significance of ‘ stills ’ and long shots in this context is that they tend to lessen the impact of the coverage , making it less attractive and exciting , thus diminishing , so the argument goes , the likelihood of imitation . |
| 23 | I think the idea is that Sun is that they see it as somebody 's gone poof poof want to be to write quickly and they would argue that a Sun reader has a sharp attention span . |
| 24 | The great advantage of such institutions is that they fit you for prison conditions . |
| 25 | The basic and sorry fact about the grants with which Frohnmayer had so much difficulty was that they expressed not only the unity of American life , but the fissures within it . |
| 26 | One of the good things about such clubs is that they offer a range of courses , so that , having mastered the basics , you can progress to a more advanced level . |
| 27 | The problem with such lists is that they do not specify any order . |
| 28 | Although one object of having such ministries is that they can deal with problems in a manner specially suited to conditions in Scotland and Wales , the fact that the ministers belong to the UK Cabinet and are responsible to the UK Parliament means that there is considerable pressure for uniformity . |
| 29 | The beauty of such methods is that they can never be proved wrong since , by ignoring what the people concerned themselves think , you have removed any empirical basis for testing the interpretations . |
| 30 | The beauty of such gardens is that they are not dependent on scale for their success . |