Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [be] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The effect of making them arrestable is that it gives the police certain powers of entry and search under section 17 and 18 while investigating the offences in question . |
| 2 | One of the problems with I twelve and the numerical content of I twelve is that it 's very difficult to differentiate between offices and services , it 's proved impossible to monitor . |
| 3 | The essential difference i between I twelve and I five is that I twelve in the past has dealt with central area office developments |
| 4 | Her second is that she is 45 . |
| 5 | Her second was that although they might be beautiful , they were not all good . |
| 6 | One good reason why such people ( if they want to become anthropologists ) should start off by studying a cultural system which is radically different from their own is that they can thereby undergo the traumatic experience of discovering that , in other societies , this deeply emotive private/public distinction may operate in quite a different way . |
| 7 | The problem with Cornwall being a seat on its own is that its population is too small . |
| 8 | They 're unique and what makes them unique is that they do not know it . ’ |
| 9 | He can create overall rhythms and within them short phrase rhythms , but the basis of them all is that they exist in groups and by being efficient in action and appropriate to the context give pleasure to both the performer and the onlooker . ’ |
| 10 | Ever since Robert Owen or Proudhon , people have been inventing alternatives to cash ; and the lesson of the failure of them all is that , to have the slightest chance of being useful , they should be local , mutual , voluntary , and , above all , simple . |
| 11 | ‘ Katherine , I haven t yet told you how pleased we all are that you shall be going to school here and be with us at Valois frequently . |
| 12 | But what makes me angry is that only a couple of these companies have bothered to alter their ads accordingly . |
| 13 | but clearly there , there is an element of that , there is an element that they 'd gone beyond it that 's that that bit is difficult to define and quantify . |
| 14 | His second was that she was from the estate agent 's . |
| 15 | The upshot of it all is that Major-General Holomisa has made Transkei a haven of sorts , a thorn in Pretoria 's side , for the ANC . |
| 16 | The one inescapable impression left by it all is that the canal system as a whole was so run down and dilapidated that nothing short of a central canal authority wiling and able to undertake a vast investment programme could have any hope of making the canals profitable again . |
| 17 | The joy of it all is that this is a resort which is peaceful — you can hear the Atlantic waves breaking on the seashore . |
| 18 | The outcome of it all is that Wainwright heads the points table with 55 and is followed by Karen Cross with 48 . |
| 19 | As early as May 1910 , the local WFL organiser , Madge Turner , commented more in sorrow than in anger on the dispute , admitting that " the saddest part of it all is that the majority of women in all the departments are supporting the men . |
| 20 | The remarkable thing about it all is that he had already caused significant bad debts when his Pergamon Press failed in the seventies . |
| 21 | The irony of it all is that Jim does not eat fish . |
| 22 | The implicature we can draw from it all is that Anderson 's enthusiasm for the topic overrides his concern for his positive face , but that the conflict between these two concerns remains , and is visible in the nervous flaws in his linguistic performance . |
| 23 | Yes I am the outcome of it all is that she 's waiting on the wall , getting piles and I 'm going to go down the shop with her . |
| 24 | The upshot of it all was that they wanted me to ask Derek would he come in for a sperm count . |
| 25 | Unfortunately , the end result of it all was that by the '60s Hawaiian music was regarded with pretty much universal contempt . |
| 26 | And the irony of it all was that Fernando had n't planned it that way . |
| 27 | And the worst part of it all was that having him there all the time had n't lessened her longing for him by one tiny jot . |
| 28 | We got on very well together and suddenly began to realise how strange and curious it all was that we had gone to separate schools . ’ |
| 29 | The feature that makes it dreadful is that it is crammed with unattractive tourists throughout the summer months , shambling around 50 feet above sea level in a state of exhaustion , asking everyone if they 're near the top yet . |
| 30 | What makes it worse is that nobody seems to know what happened . ’ |