Example sentences of "[adj] [be] [that] [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm one of the problems fish have on this is that they lay their eggs in gravel or something like that and where males have their own nest sometimes another male comes along and er takes it over , hijacks it piracy and interestingly enough what happens in those situations a pirate male will come in , displace the existing male from his nest and fertilize a few eggs and then buzz off . |
| 2 | The advantage of this is that it enables us to start focusing on content . |
| 3 | One of the most useful benefits of this is that it allows you to create long filenames . |
| 4 | So one reason [ for reviewing consents ] is it does n't make any difference to the river system ; another is that it means we 're not prepared to follow the thing through on a legal basis . |
| 5 | The second is that it allows you to make a fast flank attack on the end of the enemy 's line with the possibility of rolling along it and taking lots of his troops in the flanks . |
| 6 | The only thing that 's ever wrong with saying something you believe to be false is that you do it in order to mislead someone whom you think will believe what you say . |
| 7 | ‘ But I think the most likely is that it has something to do with a girl . ’ |
| 8 | The most obvious is that it helps you prepare your position so that it is based on facts rather than speculation or wishful thinking . |
| 9 | The most obvious is that he felt it himself : to him his fictions were what the Silmarils were to Fëanor or their ships to the Teleri , ‘ the work of our hearts , whose like we shall not make again' . |
| 10 | The importance of these is that they make you think and help you recognise what it is that ‘ makes you tick ’ . |
| 11 | For the trouble with the great and the good is that we expect them to be on duty the whole time . |
| 12 | As for the former chairman himself the greatest pity of all is that he found it necessary to go without finding a successor for himself . |
| 13 | What 's divide actually means in twos is that you share it |
| 14 | The upshot of it all was that they wanted me to ask Derek would he come in for a sperm count . |
| 15 | the important is that he knows what you 're on and why you 're on it , and you can tell him that . |
| 16 | The first is that it says nothing about W-cells . |
| 17 | The first is that you leave your opponent with a structure of one in one line , two in the second line and three in the third . |
| 18 | The first is that I felt my battle to be with authority , whether in the form of teachers , matrons , parents , or even nature itself . |
| 19 | The first was that he said he wanted an interval before he ‘ took on ’ Shakespeare again . |
| 20 | What made things particularly difficult was that I felt I was n't Black enough for my Black colleagues and that white workers picking up on the division used this to their advantage by divide-and-rule tactics . |
| 21 | And the reason for that is that we ask you to do three things when you get in front of the advertiser having got his commitment . |
| 22 | I think there 's a third fact that you touched on earlier that I think it 's just worth mentioning and that is that we know it 's also a genetic pre-disposition to anorexia nervosa , in other words , we know that in certain families it is a disorder that will run from one generation to another . |
| 23 | There 's another aspect to what we do , and that is that I think we are part of a very powerful developing movement in education , and it is based on the concept that education should not stop with the terminal rituals of school and college , and that education should be as much part of life , wanting to know , to find out , to get to grips with the body of information and knowledge that 's available in society . |
| 24 | One of the nice aspects of a task such as that is that I think we , as professional physicists — and I 'm a physicist too erm we , as professional physicists , feel there 's a right way of doing something because it 's the way we learnt and we 've got used to , and we tend to instil this idea into other people . |
| 25 | The third thing about that is that it represents us saying continuum . |
| 26 | Now that can happen both ways , but it 's very important that one feature of that is that it makes somebody uncomfortable . |
| 27 | Erm , but , we had a , that was , that was quite good , but I must , there 's a trick to remembering names , and that is that you use it all the time , so any time , if you want to remember somebodys name , every time you see them you say hello and there name |
| 28 | What is certain is that he made his way there , ignoring all warning from mortal and immortal alike . |
| 29 | Er at the last conference er both Kerry and myself buttonholed him er and proposed that we er push it a bit further and er the re upshot of that was that we wrote him a much more detailed letter er on whatever date it was , er first of November ninety three , and we 've now had a er a reply er to that er giving us carte blanche to quote him er w with er a number of er quotations which we 'd drafted and put into his mouth , so er a all the quotations that we 've asked him to approve we can use . |
| 30 | But what makes this machine really special is that it offers you the chance to create an unlimited range of embroidery designs . |