Example sentences of "[adv prt] [be] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only conditions the Taxman lays down is that you give the same amount regularly for at least four years and that you are a UK taxpayer . |
| 2 | Where many dieters fall down is that they concentrate on cutting down on food , cutting out pleasure from their lives . |
| 3 | Strikes are our abhorrence and the first principle laid down is that the owner 's property is the first care of the member of the society to see to' . |
| 4 | Majority voting satisfies conditions P , I and D. Where it breaks down is that it does not satisfy U , as we have seen with the example of the voting paradox given earlier . |
| 5 | ‘ One problem with having two career paths happily bubbling along is that there just are n't enough hours in the day a lot of the time . |
| 6 | What we have said we are involved in a process which must involve both governments and all parties , whose objective is agreement among our divided people an agreement which all our traditions must give their allegiance and agreement , and an agreement which must express which which must respect our diversity , now I have kept repeating that statement since we made it and I asked anyone to tell me what they disagree with it , now the loyalist paramilitary some weeks ago said that if the I R A were to k their impression they 've given all along is that they 're just a reaction to the I R A and if the I R A were to stop they would cease immediately , I immediately put out a statement welcoming that statement by them , I also offered to talk directly to them , but they have refused er given the nature of their campaign , particularly at the moment , I begin to wonder do they want the I R A to stop ? |
| 7 | She and this animal treated each other with mutual contempt , like an old unhappily married couple , and I always thought that the only reason he did n't bite her or she have him put down was that they disliked the rest of the world even more than each other and would have been even more miserable and lonely than they were in their trap of hostility . |
| 8 | The difficulty with writing it down was that it became real to the extent of being in a book , there were two lives , the one in the book and the one which he lived to collect the details for the book one ; he could go further in his head than on the page , the words slowed him down . |
| 9 | The first thing that comes through is that Charlie Francis is a very good coach . |
| 10 | ‘ We have interviewed 25 of our key customers across the on , off and export markets and the message which is coming through is that we need to get much closer to our customers in order to respond to their changing needs , ’ said L&QA CSSO On Trade Manager . |
| 11 | His researches go back to the 1950s : ‘ I was always fascinated by history — I spent five years as an architecture student and the reason why I did n't get through was that by the end I was much more interested in the history of architecture than other aspects of the subject , ’ he recalls . |
| 12 | The great appeal of methylation as a means of shutting genes off is that it has a known mechanism for perpetuating itself during cell division and thus ensuring its own inheritance . |
| 13 | The pay off is that there is little sign of the peakiness that can accompany sports engines . |
| 14 | Certainly , one theory as to why crime appears to be going up is that as a society we are more intolerant of certain types of violence than we were in the past . |
| 15 | Another pointer to this being made up is that he has got a degree , so should have an IQ at least marginally above yer average player . |
| 16 | The reason I 'm I 'm bringing this up is that the gentleman in question wants to come to the parish council and put on a a short video of the electricity board 's er er activities in this area . |
| 17 | The re the reason I bring this up , the reason I bring this up , you 've supported that in the past you know , they 've said , those in the you would agree with that , so the reason I bring this up is that if you we start off by offering a full service across the whole week . |
| 18 | That 's up is that it looks that way . |
| 19 | The first thing the lads noted when the stage lights came up was that the previewers ' obituaries for Pete Townshend are about as wide of the mark as a Birmingham City attack . |
| 20 | The only other significant variation among different groups which the cross-tabulations not included in the Appendix showed up was that people without bank accounts were more likely than people with them to say that credit cards would be difficult to arrange . |
| 21 | Erm as far as mannerisms are concerned , the only one I picked up was that you say okay quite often . |
| 22 | More evidence to back this up was that when Gail was about Perk 's age , Mr Elder had tried to kiss her . |
| 23 | S so the position as of say the summer nineteen forty seven when , when you 're , you , this law was being formulated the reports coming back are that although there is the opportunity for the poor to do better , as a , as a matter of course they 're not all doing better . |
| 24 | What does stand out is that everyone believes that the profession , its standards and its aims , matter , and they all feel an excitement about the job of acting . |
| 25 | This year , Mr Hume said , one perk which stands out is that offered by Lonrho . |
| 26 | But what is less often pointed out is that Anselm in The Proslogion also defines God as ‘ greater than can be thought to exist ’ . |
| 27 | All I 'm pointing out is that those steps are a hazard , and one which any sane architect would have omitted from his plan from the start . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ One of the most annoying things about getting kicked out is that I never once got a single warning , ’ he says . |
| 29 | What Firth is pointing out is that sentences as artificial constructs for exemplifying linguistic forms do not meet the same conditions of making sense as do expressions naturally used in the service of communication in context . |
| 30 | One thing which , it seems , has been sorted out is that contrary to what SINEAD O'CONNOR said in this very organ recently , her record company have emphatically denied that she 's going to stop making records . |