Example sentences of "[noun] [be] that they [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same may be true of the Prinias horsemen , but the relief there is rather low , and an alternative is that they turn their eyes on us as guardians of the house : the ‘ terror-mask ’ , a concept we shall meet again . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The importance of these articles is that they remind us forcibly of the false dawn which often surrounds new treatments . |
| 4 | Whilst it is no doubt true that the heaviness of early Soviet ICBMs and the ‘ dirtiness ’ of their warheads stemmed from crude propulsion and guidance systems , all that matters is that they accomplished what they were designed to . |
| 5 | The danger is that they stop you looking . |
| 6 | And if some of the material in the book seems occasionally to verge on the utopian , it is worth reminding ourselves that , as Jan Montefiore says in Feminism and Poetry , ‘ the value of utopias is that they enable us to imagine possibilities of difference for the brute contingent world ’ . |
| 7 | The basic premise is that they think they know better than anyone else . |
| 8 | Perhaps a telling comment on this is that a major reason for the recruitment of top , superannuated civil servants into business is that they know their way round the political labyrinth of Whitehall . |
| 9 | I mean I think that my principle desire is that they pay their er they contribute to our income and pay their rent regularly and are able to do so . |
| 10 | The desire of biblical literalists to show that the story could have been history acted as a spur to the study of zoogeography , even though the eventual , and ironic , outcome was that they sank their own ship . |
| 11 | It never occurred to me that other children were n't spoiled as a matter of course , the way I was , and it would be years — and my father would be dead — before I understood that the expense of sending me to a boarding school was just an excuse , and the simple , sentimental truth was that they knew they would have missed me . |
| 12 | The advantages of longitudinal studies are that they make it possible to study change over time , though as a series of snapshots rather than as a continuous process . |
| 13 | The great thing about families is that they keep your feet firmly on the ground — sometimes more firmly than you 'd like . |
| 14 | The value of concepts and cognitive structures is that they enable us to classify events and to make judgments and ( unlike repertoires of behaviours and lists of facts ) enable us to solve new problems . |
| 15 | 4 One problem with many passages in Eliot 's plays is that they send us to similar but stronger passages in the poetry . |
| 16 | The dignifying characteristic of the professions was that they had their own codes of ethics . |
| 17 | The thing that worried Nigel most about his son 's affairs was that they made him feel randy . |
| 18 | All that those LA police offices had to say to get acquitted of beating Rodney King was that they believed he had been using PCP . |
| 19 | The problem for the media is that they find it very difficult to secure agreement across the political spectrum as to what would be accepted as impartially presented news . |
| 20 | The other aspect of theories is that they enable us to make generalizations . |
| 21 | The reason for the excitement in using lasers is that they enable us to study unstable nuclei , which was not previously possible . |
| 22 | The answere is that they have nothing to do with them , and their effects on them are negative . |
| 23 | Perhaps the reason for the comic success of such characters is that they help us to recognise the prejudice which exists in all of us at so many different levels about so many different things . |
| 24 | Another potential problem for patients is that they find themselves in the role of information-giver , and it is often information of a very personal nature . |
| 25 | The thing is Danny is that they said they 'd only bought the thing in July . |
| 26 | The only of the government is that they waived it and the only other way is the A A who just see the pound notes coming in . |
| 27 | The only problem with the guides is that they tell you little of the quality of the goods in the shop . |
| 28 | ’ The important thing is that they understand what they are comming into . |
| 29 | ’ The important thing is that they understand what they are comming into . |
| 30 | The mutual understanding is that they give him their votes , and he gives them his services , always seeking to prove that he is at the very least as obliging and as diligent as the other " TDs and would-be TDs in his constituency . |