Example sentences of "[det] [be] that [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm one of the problems fish have on this is that they lay their eggs in gravel or something like that and where males have their own nest sometimes another male comes along and er takes it over , hijacks it piracy and interestingly enough what happens in those situations a pirate male will come in , displace the existing male from his nest and fertilize a few eggs and then buzz off . |
| 2 | The advantage of this is that it enables us to start focusing on content . |
| 3 | One of the most useful benefits of this is that it allows you to create long filenames . |
| 4 | So one reason [ for reviewing consents ] is it does n't make any difference to the river system ; another is that it means we 're not prepared to follow the thing through on a legal basis . |
| 5 | The importance of these is that they make you think and help you recognise what it is that ‘ makes you tick ’ . |
| 6 | As for the former chairman himself the greatest pity of all is that he found it necessary to go without finding a successor for himself . |
| 7 | The upshot of it all was that they wanted me to ask Derek would he come in for a sperm count . |
| 8 | And the reason for that is that we ask you to do three things when you get in front of the advertiser having got his commitment . |
| 9 | I think there 's a third fact that you touched on earlier that I think it 's just worth mentioning and that is that we know it 's also a genetic pre-disposition to anorexia nervosa , in other words , we know that in certain families it is a disorder that will run from one generation to another . |
| 10 | There 's another aspect to what we do , and that is that I think we are part of a very powerful developing movement in education , and it is based on the concept that education should not stop with the terminal rituals of school and college , and that education should be as much part of life , wanting to know , to find out , to get to grips with the body of information and knowledge that 's available in society . |
| 11 | One of the nice aspects of a task such as that is that I think we , as professional physicists — and I 'm a physicist too erm we , as professional physicists , feel there 's a right way of doing something because it 's the way we learnt and we 've got used to , and we tend to instil this idea into other people . |
| 12 | The third thing about that is that it represents us saying continuum . |
| 13 | Now that can happen both ways , but it 's very important that one feature of that is that it makes somebody uncomfortable . |
| 14 | Erm , but , we had a , that was , that was quite good , but I must , there 's a trick to remembering names , and that is that you use it all the time , so any time , if you want to remember somebodys name , every time you see them you say hello and there name |
| 15 | Er at the last conference er both Kerry and myself buttonholed him er and proposed that we er push it a bit further and er the re upshot of that was that we wrote him a much more detailed letter er on whatever date it was , er first of November ninety three , and we 've now had a er a reply er to that er giving us carte blanche to quote him er w with er a number of er quotations which we 'd drafted and put into his mouth , so er a all the quotations that we 've asked him to approve we can use . |