Example sentences of "[num] [be] that [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All that 's stopping him being welcomed into the great freemasonry of the over-fifties is that he happens to be thirty-two . |
| 2 | Another part of year 10 is that you go on work experience for two weeks . |
| 3 | The debate as to whether this institutional framework exercised a determining ( ideological ) influence on film output has been an ongoing one , but the importance of Claire Johnston 's contribution to it in the mid seventies is that she argued for a reading of Hollywood entertainment films which made a space for ‘ collective fantasies of women 's desire ’ . |
| 4 | What was striking about the instant response to Stanley 's emancipation proposals in 1833 was that it came from Howick , until recently in charge , at the Colonial Office , of the emancipation question , and that his strongest dissent arose from the failure of the plan to chart a move as soon as possible directly from slavery to free labour without bothering with an apprenticeship stage . |
| 5 | One of the problems that the Conservative government faced in the 1980s was that it depended on over 400 local authorities in England alone to implement large parts of its policies , for example housing , education and social services . |