Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] that [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In her foreword , Ruth Richardson , the Minister of Finance ( and not the most popular Kiwi politician ) , expresses it thus : ‘ The special advantages of accrual accounting are that it distinguishes between capital and current spending , and that it takes better account of the cost of current policies for future generations … |
| 2 | The real importance of the Christian religion is that it claims to be true irrespective of how I regard it . |
| 3 | One flaw in the techniques of vertical thinking is that they proceed from the known into the unknown . |
| 4 | The result is that we try to ‘ give pupils confidence ’ by providing simple tasks with little or no challenge . |
| 5 | This went smoothly and is a great improvement but in order to create the compressed drive and double the hard disk capacity the SuperStor program took my hard disk ( drive C : ) and seemed to create a compressed drive D : it then swaps drive D and drive C so that the compressed drive is now C : The result is that I seem to be locked out of my old drive D in Rom which has one or two useful bits on — like a hardware check program . |
| 6 | The irony is that he referred to the mutual relevance of science and religion in at least three different respects , each of which magnified , rather than resolved , his difficulties . |
| 7 | Everybody has read about out of body experiences and I do n't know if that is what it was , but I was not frightened by the person who was looking at me and the image that I had and that I still have in my mind is that it looked like me |
| 8 | Everybody has read about out of body experiences and I do n't know if that is what it was , but I was not frightened by the person who was looking at me and the image that I had and that I still have in my mind is that it looked like me . |
| 9 | Mildew is not so very difficult to stop in the early stages , and there are several fungicides that will give it a severe check — all the chemical manufacturers have their own products and trade names which , like everything else , are constantly being improved and changed — but by far the most important point to bear in mind is that it has to be hit early and repeatedly . |
| 10 | The difficulty with all policy-oriented research is that it begins by defining ‘ problems ’ and then by investigation helps to create that which lt wishes to observe' This type of research helps to create a cognitive revolution in its subjects and thus produces its expected findings . |
| 11 | Our dilemma is that it speaks of a level of separation from the world , the flesh and human reality which has already proved far too harmful to the churches in general and for women in particular for us to consider returning to it . |
| 12 | He told TODAY soon after the tragedy : ‘ My only crime is that I fell in love with another girl . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ The first criterion is that you have to be big : once you 're big there is something to work on and mobility , strength , athleticism , agility , determination and not least pride can be developed . |
| 14 | An alternative is that it consists of a few per cent silicates , all the rest being iron-rich compounds such as FeS and FeO , which have densities between those of metallic iron and silicates . |
| 15 | The advantage to the offeror over a share offer with a cash alternative is that it knows in advance that it will only have to make available fixed pools of each type of consideration . |
| 16 | The overall direction of small talk is that it starts in the general and becomes more specific . |
| 17 | The value of the Survey 's findings on book condition is that they relate to material actually issued to readers , and do not simply describe books stored on the shelves . |
| 18 | For many years I have experience severe rain leakage through the canvas tilt on my Series III.1 once made the mistake of coating another vehicle 's tilt with polyurethane paint but the result was that it hung in tatters within a year as it became brittle . |
| 19 | Villains they might be , but they had a certain code of practice and the rule was that you looked after your own kind . |
| 20 | But what remains important about Barthes 's substantive work is that he points to cultural phenomena in the everyday realm that are ( or were ) regarded as insignificant — they are , he reveals , laden with meaning and social and political significance . |
| 21 | Obese people tend to have higher levels of insulin than those of normal weight , and the disadvantage of insulin is that it tends to further encourage the body to deposit rather than burn up fat . |
| 22 | A feature of project management is that it interacts with the company functions managed on the minimum variety basis referred to under ‘ functional management ’ . |
| 23 | If that is what getting engaged does to him , the pity is that we live in a monogamous society ! |
| 24 | The only real conclusion that we can draw from such an exercise is that there appears to be no simple relationship between population and the wealth of a nation-state . |
| 25 | The how we come to Jesus , the why 's we come to him are not the important thing , the real issue is that we come to him . |
| 26 | I think the other issue is that we have to be defending erm , the family planning centres that are being closed down , like the forty or fifty in Glasgow , the thirteen in er Edinburgh , th the east of Scotland |
| 27 | So , also there 's something to be said for , I mean , a basic technical thing about the type is that you want to be able to tell the letter apart . |
| 28 | Another point that might be made about the relationship between the ‘ form-words ’ of grammar and the ‘ full words ’ of lexis is that it follows from the kind of auxiliary , context-complementary function of grammar being proposed here that the proportional occurrence of these words will vary in different kinds of discourse . |
| 29 | Yes well the , the question is that I notice in the assets that investments at cost were twenty five million , the present market value is twenty eight million , indeed since that 's been written it may even be more and when I looked down to the other side of the accounts , I noticed interest on capital of twelve hundred and four pounds and I wonder where the interest from the twenty eight million has gone to . |
| 30 | The response of the committee was that they adhered to their previous decision to allow them to do so only once a quarter . |