Example sentences of "[be] the [noun] that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe somebody would come to the library and that might be the spur that they need " . |
| 2 | This would be the day that I finally cracked the North Shore . |
| 3 | Well that 's the thing you see I think you 're , you 're , you know that 's gon na be the problem that you 're , you 're |
| 4 | It seems to be the case that we interweave desire and pleasure with pain and punishment ; that for women , the chasing of elusive sexual goals remains familiar , and our pleasure is indeed obscured behind a barbed wire fence of masochistic images . |
| 5 | It happens to be the case that we can not , in our language , refer to the sensible properties of a thing without introducing a word or phrase which appears to stand for the thing itself as opposed to anything which may be said about it . |
| 6 | It may be the case that we are capable of deriving a specific conclusion ( 7c ) from specific premises ( 7a ) and ( 7b ) , via deductive inference , but we are rarely asked to do so in the everyday discourse we encounter . |
| 7 | It may well be the case that we should have had more staff but I willingly accept that the tenfold increase in the number arriving has overwhelmed our resources . |
| 8 | This should not surprise you , for it happens also to be the case that they tend to be an exceptionally well-qualified crowd . |
| 9 | it 's always going to be the case that you can not provide a bus for everybody at every time . |
| 10 | It is noticeable that the Russell-Copleston debate became embroiled in a discussion of necessary propositions , a discussion made necessary by Copleston 's desire to show Russell that the world is such that it must be the case that it has a Creator . |
| 11 | Of course , it might be the case that it had been settled long before that . |
| 12 | Now it will not always be the case that it is optimal for the less risk-averse party to take on all the risk . |
| 13 | It will always be the case that it would have been better for one of the counterparties not to have taken out the forward contract but to have waited and transacted in the spot or cash market at the time called for delivery . |
| 14 | Well , erm , what kinds of changes can be performed on me and still it would be the case that it 's me ? |
| 15 | ‘ It must sometimes be the case that I bring British fish back to London , but it will probably be in better condition than if it had been bought there as foreign agents insist on good transport and packing . ’ |
| 16 | Yes , if you look at it in a certain light , as those philosophers are apt to who go on to say that there must ( 286 ) have been more than the sentence in my mind for it to be the case that I meant such and such . |
| 17 | It may not be the bit that you 're going to eventually use for your assignment , because you 're a bit unsure taped up your assignment , but bring a short transcription , at least one side of A four , because if you do that , you will , if you 've given yourself a chance of actually trying it out , you will begin to see the problems and and the whole thing will be much more interesting and more rewardable . |
| 18 | This would be the relationship that we find in 104 ( ‘ To me , fair friend , you never can be old ’ ) or 106 ( ‘ When in the chronicle of wasted time ’ ) . |
| 19 | When that happened , however , there would at least be the compensation that she became the first of them to have her power formally acknowledged with the title of regent . |
| 20 | This is the point erm , well Plato made the point that the people we most want to rule us are probably the ones that are the least likely to want to take on that duty and Ben Williams made the same point the other way round that the people who rise to the top in politics are likely to be the ones that we would least like to have governing us . |
| 21 | If it 's inherited from an estate that of itself er attracts no tax , so there tax position would only be the income that they received from it would be subject to income tax and it would be added to their own assets so that when they die in due course then they 've inheritance payable there . |
| 22 | Often it is the process which is more important in explaining group performance than the content , even though it will usually be the content that we assess in measuring its performance . |
| 23 | And if they wanted him to be boring then that would be the performance that he would offer . |
| 24 | I would very much therefore like to think that Round Table Day on the nineteenth of March nineteen ninety four next year will be the success that you wish to make it . |
| 25 | The two of them told me that no formalities were required , that I would simply be received in a small private room , and that there would even be the possibility that I would be given a glass of sherry — which presented some difficulty since I am teetotal . |
| 26 | The way horses pass messages between themselves will be the way that they will try and impart a message to us . |
| 27 | To the extent that black people are not assimilated into white society , the obstacle will be the way that they preserve a separate cultural identity . |
| 28 | This will be the address that they 'll |
| 29 | Then this will not happen as we know , a transport working group is going to be er a controversial area where it will cease to be the operation that we have had in the past from the county . |
| 30 | The preparation of a claim should not be the chore that it so often becomes . |