Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] that [pers pn] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the signs are that it made virtually no impact at all . |
| 2 | The attractions of these products are that they store well , are easily obtained and offer a high profit margin . |
| 3 | The problem with books are that they date very quickly and so it is difficult to get up to the minute advice . |
| 4 | The problem with such lists is that they do not specify any order . |
| 5 | The great skill of Japanese and German manufacturers is that they know how to make things efficiently and well , which is what we are so bad at . |
| 6 | Part of the problem with encouraging girls to take ‘ useful ’ subjects is that we do not know whether it makes any difference to the kinds of jobs they eventually do ; and whether , indeed , these jobs would still be highly rated if women did them . |
| 7 | But Sir David said yesterday : ‘ We 've always had doubts about this policy , and the thing that now confirms our doubts is that it has n't worked . ’ |
| 8 | The problem with these street preachers is that you do n't get the choice not to hear them . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ One of the attractions was that he does n't jump out of cars shouting freeze . |
| 10 | One of the unwritten rules of non-Muslims who work or travel in Muslim countries is that you do n't eat or drink in front of your fasting friends . |
| 11 | Er what he did n't do which is which is very sensible and what has failed for other companies is that he did n't decide this is a good idea I 'll have somebody in Newcastle and somebody in Edinburgh and I 'll have somebody , in other words he gradually built the whole of the business out until he reached London by which time he he 'd a hell of exp er a lot of experience and knowledge about this thing 's going . |
| 12 | The problem with the mixtures is that they have never been proved in the classical homoeopathic way , as had been done with the original remedies . |
| 13 | The soft tones of the colour range always produce a successful design and the joy of using all the silvery tones is that they last so well In many cases , the silver-grey effect is created by the very small hairs on the underside of the flower or leaf , which catch the light and give a lovely overall tone to the picture . |
| 14 | But for some villagers who the remember the Lambourn as it used to be , all that matters is that it flows once again . |
| 15 | ‘ Our biggest problem with A-levels is that they have not been modified in the light of the GCSE , ’ says Brian Howseman , principal of Luton Sixth Form College . |
| 16 | ‘ The problem dealing with Iranian or Lebanese Shi'ite terrorists is that we know comparatively little about them . |
| 17 | One advantage of Chinese celebrations is that they do not linger on , as everyone knocks off and goes home to bed at about 9 p.m . |
| 18 | The advantage of this formal approach to organisations is that it shows how organisational objectives can be reached by : |
| 19 | One of the most commonly used arguments against the use of probabilistic grammars is that they do not take semantic information into account . |
| 20 | One major difficulty for insects is that they do not have a circulatory blood system . |
| 21 | A second reason why official statistics give an imperfect picture of the real situation in primary classes is that they average out differences . |
| 22 | One of the major differences of the Department of National Savings relative to other financial intermediaries is that it does not hold an asset portfolio to back up liabilities held , and therefore is not constrained by the need to adhere to liquidity , solvency or capital adequacy regulations ( given that funds are backed by the Treasury and are therefore essentially default-free ) . |
| 23 | Another difficulty of the last 11 or 12 years is that we have always faced west , towards the United States of America . |
| 24 | ‘ I think the problem with new guitars is that they have n't lived , ’ ponders Alex suddenly . |
| 25 | The beauty about those days was that you built up suites of software to suit the way you worked . |
| 26 | Probably the single most raised criticism of PageMaker in its earlier versions was that it did not automatically flow text from column to column or page to page . |
| 27 | One of this book 's merits is that it shows how hard stone application was not confined to the Baroque , and includes unexpected nineteenth-century examples . |
| 28 | One general outcome of the comparison between the original and the reconstructions is that it brought out the very blandness and the almost self-conscious " flatness ' of Hemingway 's style . |
| 29 | One of Derry 's pressing problems is that they do n't possess a natural left-sided midfielder — hence the constant chopping and changing to try and find the right balance across the middle . |
| 30 | One of the problems is that we have not found a way of doing it cheaply , and this has caused great anxiety . ’ |