Example sentences of "[be] [noun] that [prep] " in BNC.

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31 There is evidence that at least in some of the cases before us , the tariff period was fixed by a minister of state or a Parliamentary under-secretary of state .
32 Dietary fibre supplements have not been successful in the treatment of IBS as measured by double-blind trials , although there is evidence that at least 30 g of dietary fibre a day will improve constipation and some other symptoms .
33 There is evidence that for much of the Labour government 's period in office between 1974 and 1979 , the older urban cores were to receive greater support than other areas of the country ( Jackman and Sellars , 1977 ) .
34 But it was a book about hierarchy , and that is why it became of interest to Carolingian bishops , as there is evidence that within a decade it did .
35 There is evidence that in Britain this epoch has now arrived .
36 Certainly there is evidence that in the past sisters provided very significant amounts of practical , moral and sometimes financial support for each other ( Young and Willmott , 1957 ; Roberts , 1984 ) .
37 Whatever its normal role in language functions , there is evidence that in some cases , though not all perhaps , the right hemisphere participates in the recovery of language following aphasia .
38 As will be discussed in the following chapter there is evidence that in some circumstances arousal may in fact impair or systematically bias memory .
39 Yet — and here again the comparison with Venice seems particularly appropriate — there is evidence that in recent times those foundations of society have begun to crumble and decay so that , just like the Serenissima , society today faces ever higher spring tides of modernity which threaten to overwhelm the traditional basis of the social order , perhaps even to destroy it altogether .
40 Indeed , it is reasonable to ask the question whether irritable bowel syndrome is a disease of the motor side of bowel motility at all ; there is evidence that in some patients the abnormality is one of visceral sensation .
41 So confident is Autobacs that since April last year new franchisees have had to pay the firm a commission of 2% of sales .
42 After ten more lines of self-abasement to ‘ my sovereign ’ from ‘ a sad slave ’ it ends with the biting couplet : ‘ So true a fool is love that in your will , /Though you do anything , he thinks no ill . ’
43 Then I 'm going to do what is the proper thing to do which is chop that to size
44 All these are jobs that in the past other people were paid to do but are now somehow part of ‘ free time ’ .
45 She sat and ate it with them now , and oh , it was torture that in deference to propriety and Matey they had not made love again as they had done that golden afternoon , always to be remembered .
46 Meanwhile , there was evidence that despite the calm in the capital itself , war was being prepared elsewhere .
47 There was evidence that despite torture and execution , the clergy at the cathedral had managed to conceal it .
48 It is probable that they either crashed or were shot down , although Stirling states that there was evidence that at least some of them may have reached their target .
49 It was held that the fact the engine seized up after only three weeks was evidence that at the time of the sale the car was not reasonably fit for the purpose of being driven on the road .
50 There was evidence that in order to save both lives it was necessary to perform a Caesarean section on the mother .
51 Crucially , there was evidence that in similar cases the defendants generally did not rely on the clause , but negotiated settlements , which perhaps indicated that the defendants did not regard the clause as reasonable .
52 Here , the committee claimed , was evidence that by intervening directly in the environment , education specialists could raise the IQs of ghetto children to an average of over 125 points .
53 There was speculation that in distancing himself from the Khmers Rouges , Sihanouk was acting with the approval of the Chinese government .
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