Example sentences of "[verb] [be] that [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Du Cann 's fundamental problem has been that he wanted to be seen as cross between a Tory grandee and country squire . |
| 2 | Er , which I think is , is excellent , and what I suggest is that we look at trying to get exposed in some of the professional journals really . |
| 3 | What she did know was that he lived with his mother and two brothers , and that after the war he would go back to work in an insurance office . |
| 4 | What I did know was that I discerned in the detail the cynical hand of the practising hack . |
| 5 | The reason as we have seen is that it succeeds in employing more information than any alternative system . |
| 6 | Erm in t the second most important criterion I would have thought is that it needs to be on a public transport corridor . |
| 7 | In any other situation the worst thing that can occur is that nothing happens at all . |
| 8 | However , what I would like to suggest is that you contribute to the Comment Column of our autumn edition . |
| 9 | ‘ The thing about directing is that it depends on how you read a play . |
| 10 | What this case clearly shows is that one has to be very careful in assuming that in restraint of trade cases a phrase ascribed a meaning in one case will also be ascribed the same meaning in another . |
| 11 | What happened was that we returned to our roots . |
| 12 | What happened was that he fell in love . |
| 13 | So what I would suggest is that we reply to this for you . |
| 14 | Sir Ranulph 's wife , Lady Virginia Fiennes , speaking from her remote Exmoor farm , said : ‘ All I know is that they asked to be picked up and the pick-up has come in and got them . |
| 15 | All I know is that he lived in Glasgow . |
| 16 | She says all we know is that he comes from London and he wants to remain anonymous . |
| 17 | All we can reasonably conclude is that they happened at the same time . |
| 18 | The first thing we discovered was that there seemed to be almost no information to go on . |
| 19 | Well there might have been that nobody knew about , I do n't know . |
| 20 | My own assessment before we had the check would have been that he worked within C.N.D. because he was a committed C.N.D. member rather than working in C.N.D. in order to further the interests of the Communist Party . |
| 21 | All , all I 'm saying is that we need to , before we literally start dotting I 's and crossing T's in any literal sense is to sussed out whether that 's gon na , whether they 're going to be receptive to the subject matter . |
| 22 | All that Ormrod J. is in fact saying is that there has to be a woman in a marriage , because someone has to perform the essential role of a woman in the marriage , and this essential role is to be a woman , biologically so determined . |
| 23 | There 's a lot of conservatism in the vocal world here , and they sometimes come to performances to compare if it 's louder or softer ; I like big voices and I 'm trying to collect every rich voice I can , does n't matter if it 's in Novosibirsk where we heard Gorchakova , but what I 'm saying is that it has to be a complex , not just a voice and something else , or not just actor and a bit of voice . ’ |
| 24 | Perhaps Ken 's one failing was that he belonged to a breed of footballer who would later include Charlie George , Rodney Marsh and Emlyn Hughes — big heads . |
| 25 | The one thing that even the anti-Maastricht rebels must realise is that whatever happens to the other countries of the Community affects Britain profoundly . |
| 26 | One of the first things you 'll realise is that you work for an organisation that has to react and respond rapidly to changing circumstances . |
| 27 | It consists of three parallel cylinders of spongy tissue enclosed in an outer sheath of elastic skin and all we ask is that it stiffens on demand and performs its time-honoured functions without complaint . |
| 28 | All we ask is that you take at least four books during your first year 's membership from the many hundreds you 'll be offered . |
| 29 | So all I ask is that you go on the way you have started . ’ |
| 30 | All she knew was that she counted on Thomas . |