Example sentences of "[be] that [pron] [modal v] [vb infin] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their strengths are that they will have drive and self-confidence , and the weaknesses , they 're intolerant towards vague ideas and people . |
| 2 | The chances are that you will save money with a water meter especially if you live in a house with a high rateable value — and should repay the costs of installation within two years . |
| 3 | The alternatives are that it should promote competition , per se , or that it should operate with fairly broadly defined public interest criteria . |
| 4 | The crucial repercussions of the company existing in its own right are that it can hold property , raise money on the security of its property , sue and be sued in its own name , and continue to exist and do business despite changes in membership or its directors . |
| 5 | It may be that we can seek help from what to some of my readers might seem an unlikely source . |
| 6 | It may be that you will find success in alternative or more unorthodox fields . |
| 7 | A side effect of which can be that you can develop gout . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , the received opinion seems to be that you should have sex and that it 's not all right not to have it . |
| 9 | The benefit of this assumption ( Willig , 1976 ) is that we may use consumer surplus , the area under the demand curve , as a measure of social benefit . " |
| 10 | She might have agreed with my friend Roger Hinks — who , after his unmerited disgrace over the too energetic cleaning of the Elgin Marbles , left the British Museum to work for years for the British Council — that the compensation for having acquaintances is that we can make game of them with our friends . |
| 11 | One thing that worries parents about their children becoming vegetarian is that they might lack protein . |
| 12 | The aim for those Compacts established by the Training Agency , and for any others that are established independently , is that they should become self financing . |
| 13 | The rationale of virtual-memory systems is that they can allocate memory on the basis of the actually observed demands for storage rather than on the potential , or worst case estimates , for the execution of a program . |
| 14 | The difficulty with such a conclusion is that one can claim authenticity for anything that goes on in the classroom , including mechanistic pattern practice and the recital of verb paradigms , on the grounds that it may be conducive to learning ( type 3 ) and a feature of the conventional classroom situation ( type 4 ) . |
| 15 | So where is that I 'll go Doctor for my hair ? |
| 16 | The simple answer is that you must select information from your notes to suit the question . |
| 17 | The advantage of paper money , however , is that you can get interest on it . |
| 18 | Another plus of the pension mortgage is that you can claim tax relief on your pension contributions . |
| 19 | There 's it 's mirror image and what you will find is that you can superimpose side by side and two , any two of those atoms there those groups but then , straight away the other two are out of position the other two have reversed . |
| 20 | The best advice if you are pregnant or planning a pregnancy is that you should stop drinking alcohol until after your baby is born . |
| 21 | The irony of organizational control in a compliance system is that it may impede performance and efficiency at field level , where enforcement is a matter of negotiation and bargaining demanding the flexibility of high discretion . |
| 22 | While this is not insignificant ( a weakness of the lecture or the teacher-directed lesson is that it must take place at a pre-set time irrespective of student readiness ) it is hardly Liberty Hall . |
| 23 | The first merit of P. N. Furbank 's admirable biography is that it should revive interest in Diderot . |
| 24 | Its particular feature is that it can print name cards and handle thick paper up to 300 microns , and is also supplied with a cutter . |
| 25 | One of the advantages of the bureaucratic structure is that it can ensure continuity through the use of standard work practices and also provide some measure of stability . |
| 26 | The immediate difficulty with an ideological definition is that it can deflect attention from writers of the working class to those who write about the working class , a tendency which is prominent in Ashraf 's own study . |
| 27 | The basis of the traditional antipathy of churches to gambling is that it can encourage greed , become addictive and is looking for a reward that has not been earned either by virtue or by effort . |
| 28 | Another reason why the passive is used in writing is that it can reduce repetition . |
| 29 | What he says is that erm you know when he was writing of six hundred and fifty eight seats in parliament , I do n't know how many there are now , but he says if we allowed for people to be paid , then we have as it were six hundred and fifty eight prizes to people 's six hundred and fifty eight jobs for people and he says and this is rather astonishing to hear , to read this is that it will attract adventurism of low class to er parliament if we pay members of parliament . |
| 30 | The charge against such a move is that it will pay unemployment benefit to claimants , some of whose household income already prevents them from being poor . |