Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But the thing about Robbo is that he is a determined beggar and I know that if I ask him , he will say OK if he 's ready . |
| 2 | ‘ The great thing about Robbo is that he brings that bit extra out of people , ’ said Ferguson . |
| 3 | Her mother and sister were fine-looking women , but the odd thing about Sheila was that her beauty was not an enlargement or an enhancement of their near-handsomeness . |
| 4 | ‘ The most important thing I wanted to show about Feisal was that he was a nice person . |
| 5 | ‘ All I can say about Chelsea is that Newcastle United would be a bigger club if we got things right here . ’ |
| 6 | The main complaint that I have about d'Compress is that it does not use standard DOS key and mouse commands . |
| 7 | I seem to remember that the first information I ever had about Ben was that he had measles ! |
| 8 | One of the biggest problems for Ferguson is that opponents always raise their game against Manchester United . |
| 9 | The great thing for Ben is that he has Peter Winterbottom on one side of him and ‘ Lazarus ’ on the other . |
| 10 | ‘ A problem for Falconer is that he is just on the way back . |
| 11 | ‘ The test for Neil is whether he could have done anything better to prepare himself for the task ahead . |
| 12 | The great thing about Angie was that she was always for him . |
| 13 | All the cops know about Mahoney is that he worked for Joey Bonanza . |
| 14 | But the feeling about Faldo is that if he is at the top of his game , he should win it . |
| 15 | Their justification for TCG was that there is no fundamental difference between capital gains and income , since they both represent ‘ accretion of economic power ’ and should both , therefore , be taxed . |
| 16 | The most interesting fact revealed about Norma is that the poor dear is obviously deranged . |
| 17 | The transactions during July were as follows . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | One difficulty for Mountbatten was that the Foreign Secretary , Ernest Bevin , took a view of the situation closer to that of Gracey than that of the Supreme Commander : ‘ Bevin is behaving like the worst conservative diehard , ’ wrote Edwina Mountbatten in another context . |
| 20 | The unfortunate news for Scotland is that even should they eclipse Western Samoa today , the Fijian national seven palpably await in the quarter-final . |
| 21 | The irony for England was that had he decided differently he would have been playing for them rather than against them , for his parents had brought him from Barbados at the age of twelve to live in Reading , and he had played for England schoolboys . |
| 22 | The first consequence of the battle of Maserfelth was that Penda was left as sole king of the Mercians , without question the most powerful Mercian ruler so far to have emerged in the midlands . |
| 23 | The most significant feature of Taos is that the kernel takes up just 13Kb of memory — and is blindingly fast on complex applications such as graphics ray tracing . |
| 24 | The most significant feature of Taos is that the kernel takes up just 13Kb of memory — and is blindingly fast on complex applications such as graphics ray tracing . |
| 25 | The two basic postulates of SR are as follows : firstly the laws of physics take the same form in all inertial frames , i.e. in all frames which are moving with constant velocity with respect to the frame of the distant galaxies ; secondly the velocity of light is a constant c . |
| 26 | It is doubtful whether either of these distinctions would bear scrutiny on the broader canvas of moral and social philosophy : the moral thrust of Caldwell is that people are often just as much to blame for failing to think as they are for thinking about their actions and its consequences , and this very argument was applied to rape in the paragraphs above . |
| 27 | Taken to its logical conclusion ( and the advantage of Baudrillard is that he does just this ) , this view entails a denial of all signification . |
| 28 | A major strength of Henley is that students are drawn from all over the world and bring with them knowledge of many different cultures . |
| 29 | What I know of Moscow is that you keep your nose clean and do the work you 've set out to achieve , and that way there 's no hassle . |
| 30 | ‘ My own impression of Ian is that he 's outstanding as an administrator , ’ said the Archdeacon with real surprise . |