Example sentences of "[noun sg] be that [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the whole time that the kids have been going away we 've never had a single problem over religion and the biggest boost is that they actually want to meet each other again after the holiday , ’ she explained . |
| 2 | The down side is that we probably have the toughest Xmas/New Year you could image ( excluding Crewe ! ! ) . |
| 3 | ‘ The result is that we now have a more sensitive version of the traditional pig-sticker , which is ten times more accurate than the old tool in testing and calculating the hardness or softness of clay . ’ |
| 4 | The result is that you often know your grandchildren better than your own children ! ’ |
| 5 | The result is that I rarely hear students chatting about science — it would simply take too long to formulate a question and answer . |
| 6 | The result is that he now has a company worth £1.5bn . |
| 7 | Tomorrow 's World presenter Maggie , 36 , said : ‘ One thing we have learned from alcoholism is that you never know what 's going to happen . ’ |
| 8 | The obvious advantage is that they provide sack-loads of fun and laughter , and the disadvantage is that you sometimes have to wait three hours for them to find their boots in the morning and finish flossing their teeth . |
| 9 | The only disappointment was that I never did see them feeding , for I could have learned such a lot in those short but interesting hours . |
| 10 | When I was , shall we say , inducted into the SS , the deal was that I only operated against the Russians . |
| 11 | Jackie was asked if she would take a Thoroughbred mare who had been abandoned in a field and give her a home as a brood mare — but part of the deal was that she also took the pony who had been left with her . |
| 12 | They were n't inherently toxic or dangerous , but they were misused , and instead of calling for an ambulance people would have another squirt of the inhaler down their throat and the result was that they unfortunately died . |
| 13 | The result was that it then became possible to record the data on a continuous re-circulating loop of tape that would last for 25 hours before being erased and used again . |
| 14 | Her reply was that she never cried and moreover had never talked about it since it had happened all those years ago . |
| 15 | His reply was that he often did but not usually soon enough . ) |
| 16 | The irony was that she actively disliked him . |
| 17 | A special feature of this part of the programme was that it regularly included a section with about six brief items , averaging 20–30 seconds in duration , including sound bites of 10–20 seconds . |
| 18 | If , however , that order was the subject of an appeal to the Divisional Court , then the practice was that they thereafter drafted reasons , usually in quite considerable detail . |
| 19 | The effect was that he always seemed to be smiling . |
| 20 | A significant aspect of her work is that it always broaches the boundaries between the traditional disciplines of philosophy , psychoanalysis , literary , and art theory ; the implications it holds for each are touched on by the essays in this collection ( for instance , Ainley , ‘ The Ethics of Sexual Difference ’ ; O'Connor , ‘ The An-Arche of Psychotherapy ’ ; Minow-Pinkney , ‘ Virginia Woolf : ‘ Seen from a Foreign Land' ’ ; and Burgin , ‘ Geometry and Abjection ’ ) . |
| 21 | Another attractive feature of an actuary 's work is that you never stop learning — both on your own account and from your colleagues . |
| 22 | He enjoys music his one regret is that he never learned to play a musical instrument and is chairman of the newly-established music society which is putting on a season of classical concerts in the throne room at Bishop Auckland Castle . |
| 23 | My main subsequent regret is that I only knew my father from the perspective of parent to child and not from that of adult ( parent ) to adult ( son ) whence different qualities and traits of personality come to be appreciated . |
| 24 | I noted earlier that Marx recognised the social and political ‘ materiality ’ of lines of demarcation other than those of property holding in the ‘ Eighteenth Brumaire ’ : nonetheless what is striking in this passage is that he never settled accounts with the general theory which denied such factors any pertinence in the long run . |
| 25 | The pity is that they always kick the wrong person . ’ |
| 26 | She believes the general lack of women participants in the sport is that it simply does not appeal . |
| 27 | The reason for thinking that chloroplasts have this origin is that they still retain their own DNA and their own protein-synthesizing machinery . |
| 28 | The thing that makes this worse is that they really have meant well and were , I believe genuinely concerned . |
| 29 | My great regret was that I never recorded with Busch . |
| 30 | The only difference is that they now want to leave the skip on site for a week at a time . |