Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] that [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other advantages of a freezer are that it enables you to store food that can be brought out in an emergency when you have unexpected guests , or to store certain foods in bulk , such as bread , to save you from frequent trips to the shops . |
| 2 | The advantages of friendship are that you have someone who can help you in any difficulties , you can have fun together and share the same experiences . |
| 3 | My recommendation is that we scrap them for the ten year decade of evangelism as a trial period and then think again in AD 2000 ! |
| 4 | It is often said that one of the problems with antiracism is that it knows what it is against , but not what it is for . |
| 5 | The result is that we know nothing about it except its external face , how its economy worked , and that has mostly been described by unsympathetic observers . |
| 6 | The result is that you know who bought what and where . |
| 7 | The irony is that what gave me and other lesbians the |
| 8 | ‘ The greatest irony is that I thought he could help me in my research on rape , ’ she says . |
| 9 | I mean I one of the things that I 've always sort of had in mind is that we put it down in the reception area . |
| 10 | The main point about a search is that we know what we are looking for and often we know where to look . |
| 11 | The loss should not fall on the totally innocent taxpayer whose only fault is that it paid what the legislature improperly said was due . |
| 12 | and the biggest tragedy is that I know you know what you want to say |
| 13 | The appeal of this closely-worked new study is that it presents him as a comprehensive human being . |
| 14 | The reason I draw attention to this guidance is that it draws what I think is a crucial distinction for our purposes here today , between the need to assess at the structure plan level the need for a road proposal and in paragraph five thirty one , a clear statement there that consideration of environmental impacts in relation to where the road goes , is a matter for the local plan . |
| 15 | But of course profit 's one thing , and income 's another thing , and I think the problem with most er forms of income type investment is that we spend it , it 's not a problem it 's just , it just happens . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Another bonus is that it leaves your hair smelling of mint rather than yukky ammonia ! |
| 18 | The result was that he left my flat in a fuming temper , very gruff but very sober , and the broadcast was , I was given to understand , of consummate skill and effectiveness . |
| 19 | ‘ When I told him , his reply was that he thought I had liked going there , and he burst out with , ‘ Thank goodness you told me . |
| 20 | Why else should I still be yearning after a man whom I knew to be a murderer while shrinking from the innocent Syl whose only crime was that I found him unattractive ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | And at each instant of its happening , its bitter-sweet wonder is that you know it ca n't last . |
| 23 | Erm , my proposal is that you keep them separately . |
| 24 | I mean , maybe what I 'm hearing from the committee is that we take it back and look at the criteria and the ground rules . |
| 25 | ‘ The only pity is that you concentrate your attention on men who are already spoken for . |
| 26 | What is the issue is that you expected me to stay and I did n't . |
| 27 | The real problem with this gallery is that it confirms what the public has always thought : that designers are a bunch of elitists who do n't live in the real world . |
| 28 | Having learnt to cope happily on our own , the likelihood is that we find we are not alone after all . |
| 29 | The inevitable consequence of his marriage was that he forfeited his fellowship , and the security it had given him . |
| 30 | Her biggest regret was that she found it necessary to keep its existence from David . |