Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] that [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was my idea as much as Jeff 's that I went with him . ’ |
| 2 | All the cops know about Mahoney is that he worked for Joey Bonanza . |
| 3 | What gets me about this guy Alderson is that he served in the country area of Cornwall , and he makes all these proposals about inner-city policing ; now how the hell would he know anything about the inner city ? |
| 4 | What is known about Jane is that she lived in a cellar in Wisbech , earning her living by reaping in the fields in the summer and spinning wool and flax in the winter . |
| 5 | But where she differs from Miss Finlay Johnson is that she looks beyond the facts to more universal implications of any particular topic . |
| 6 | Owing to the terrible destruction of scores , the only dramatic work of Monteverdi 's that we know between those of 1607–8 and the last two Venetian operas is a peculiar experiment ‘ in genere rappresentativo ’ , Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda , performed in the Palazzo Mocenigo in Venice in 1624 . |
| 7 | The real message of the BCS is that it calls into question assumptions about crime upon which people 's concern is founded . |
| 8 | But then the problem with a television tour of Europe is that it begins with the familiar . |
| 9 | And I was just squeezin maself into a five and a half when Moira McVitie round the crescent in the cul de sac comes by and shouts out ‘ Hiya there Verena is that you trying on some fuck-me shoes for yer man gettin back . ’ |
| 10 | The thing about Tim is that he came to us with a experience of a polishing shop so he was very well placed to help us improve our spiriting-out technique that is so necessary on a fine shellac finish . |
| 11 | The first promising thing about the Clarendon Hotel at Chale on the Isle of Wight is that it looks like a charming little English country hotel . |
| 12 | The importance of the PPR is that it occurs at a time when the numbers of new susceptible hosts are increasing and so ensures the survival and propagation of the worm species . |
| 13 | One of my reasons for becoming involved in Westland was that I felt in some respects that I owed them something . |