Example sentences of "[pron] [be] that a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm sure , then , that readers of Dogs Today will be as concerned as I am that a well respected and successful breed rescue charity looks set to collapse this year , unless they receive real help — financial and physical — immediately . |
| 2 | Disgusted as I am that an estate full of innocent people can be used as pawns in a much more complex and devious game , this threat comes as no surprise to me . |
| 3 | What the third defendant is asserting is a statutory cause of action under the Act of 1978 , the only necessary ingredients of which are that a person or persons , namely the plaintiffs , have against the third party a cause of action in respect of the same damage as gives rise to that person or person 's cause of action against the third defendant . |
| 4 | This rather sad quote illustrates very sharply a point made in the previous chapter , which is that a field of learning such as physics , which has great power to change our lives , is usually divorced from a consideration of moral issues . |
| 5 | I respectfully agree with the judge that that would be an inappropriate way of achieving the result which clearly ought to be achieved , which is that a child abducted in the way this little boy was should be able to return home pending a decision as to whether he lives with his father or with his mother . |
| 6 | Because wha we 're talking about a very age old attitude which is that a mother and a father and their children ar , is the correct unit , should stay together , at least until the children are grown up and probably well beyond ? |
| 7 | Now that flies in the face of erm I think the er the real position on the ground , which is that a development could take place within that district , even where areas have not yet been mined , without any adverse impact on the either the coalfield or the new settlement . |
| 8 | But his own position , which is that an entity can simply be defined in terms of ‘ the totality of its appearances ’ , is similarly questionable . |
| 9 | Here we do not make the common assumption mentioned but not specified in connection with the first three examples , which is that an effect had a single cause . |
| 10 | The Executive 's Lesbian and Gay Working Party made a number of points , primary of which was that a candidate 's family — if indeed they had one — was irrelevant to an election campaign which ought to be about the candidate 's political platform . |
| 11 | Perhaps Jesus is refuting the popular idea of Messiah , which was that a descendant of David would come as a nationalistic leader , drive the Romans out and restore the kingdom of Israel . |
| 12 | This enabled him to test his original hypothesis , which was that an increase in work specialization and the division of labour is linked to the change from mechanical to organic solidarity . |
| 13 | The books tell you that badgers love peanuts , but what they do n't tell you is that a plastic peanut packet is likely to go off in your pocket with a high-decibel rustle that will send any self-respecting badger right back underground . |
| 14 | I think , the best analogy I can produce for you is that a a balance in which various factors act on the side of the host and various factors act on the side of the organism , and the outcome is disease and death if the organism wins out and outcome is resistance or recovery if the the host wins out . |
| 15 | But the question remains , how confident can we be that a formula score is truly representative of the overall difficulty level ? |
| 16 | When it comes to flavour , the difference between a TFTA turkey and a standard one is that a traditional bird is hung for at least seven days . |
| 17 | One is that a comparatively nearby star in our Galaxy exploded as a supernova , shining millions of times more brightly than usual . |
| 18 | One is that a long tail indicates an extremely fit male : to grow such a tail and carry it around will take extra energy . |
| 19 | One is that a loading dose is required in patients with apparently normal renal function , and the other is that the ‘ standard ’ dose is 80 mg intravenously eight hourly . |
| 20 | One is that a power of the House of Lords to remit an appeal to the Court of Appeal to resolve any remaining uncertified points be provided by statute . |
| 21 | One is that a person has contravened one or other of the statutory provisions referred to in subsection ( 1 ) ( a ) . |
| 22 | One is that a predator is less likely to detect fish prey if they form a school than if they spread out . |
| 23 | The first and obvious one is that a leaf can grow across the reference area . |
| 24 | The seven questions were : What guarantees would there be that a united Germany would not threaten security and peace in Europe ? ; |
| 25 | What happens there is that a ‘ really gay ’ reading of Coward is put into play , much as I have already done with Brief Encounter , but on the grounds that a homosexual writer can only write about homosexuality ( analogous cases would be the insistence that Edward Albee 's Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf is ‘ really ’ about a gay couple , or that Tennessee Williams 's Blanche Dubois is nothing but a transposed drag queen ) . |
| 26 | The main problem there is that a visitor centre was erected which , far from solving the access and erosion problems , has created even greater ones . |
| 27 | It did not tell him how many French had crossed the frontier , nor whether blücher was concentrating his army ; all it told him was that a French force had pushed back the Prussian outposts . |
| 28 | Could it be that a degree of PMS ( I do not mean suicidal or murderous tendencies ) is a perfectly reasonable response by a healthy reproductive system to the unnatural state of non-pregnancy ? |
| 29 | Neither of them was capable of searching out any fairy-tale kink in the more drab theories of evolution which might explain how it is that a frog taken ( however reluctantly ) into the soft bed of a princess can be changed overnight back into a prince . |
| 30 | These two tasks are inextricably interwoven : if advisers fail to establish what it is that a client wants to know because of poor interviewing , then they will not be able to supply the correct information even if it is available . |