Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [be] [that] " in BNC.

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1 What it comes down to is that most people , myself included , are just not up to murder .
2 What it comes down to is that I ca n't handle happiness .
3 What this all boils down to is that , if you make a turn to the left while flying forwards at high speed with clockwise blade rotation , you will probably need to apply full left tail rotor .
4 What the detail in Appendix I boils down to is that , in general , seeing how total costs or APRs compare does not make most people change their minds .
5 ‘ All right , ’ Agnes said resignedly , ‘ so what it boils down to is that , despite your assurances to the White House Protective Detail , you 're sneaking off to do a little sleuthing on your own ? ’
6 Clearly Helen has looked for ‘ explanations ’ to help her deal with such a painful experience , and the one she seems to have come up with is that she was picked on for the way she looks .
7 One theory I came up with was that the down beat of its wings pushed it upwards and the up beat pushed it downwards and the two cancelled each other out so that the kestrel stayed where it was .
8 About the only practical thing I came up with was that I probably ought to start smoking again .
9 The least satisfactory housing tends also to be that inhabited by sections of the population of which disabled people form a disproportionately large percentage , elderly people and people on low incomes .
10 What this all adds up to is that the coding of give/take relationship in fields quite remote from private domestic affairs is much closer to what the members of modern capitalist societies assume to be appropriate only for the restricted context of the domestic household than it is to the coding of power relationships within the wider context of the market economy which I was discussing earlier .
11 Things to look out for are that all of the many Airworthiness Directives have been complied with .
12 And the the policy now with is that this will ta now take place I know that there 's been somebody here for the last three years , but this will now take place every two years .
13 The most convincing turned out to be that the girls were responding to being involved in the experiment , and were developing strong group loyalties and a wish to please the experimenters .
14 The answer may turn out to be that the main results of university education for which intrinsic value can reasonably be claimed — such as the activity of critical thought — are included as main elements in the educational process itself , so that it is pointless to go on putting essential questions off by starting with questions about the value of the results of an Arts education .
15 The unmotive you have vaguely hit on turns out to be that the fellow was obsessively jealous of his wife who was , as would be evident to everybody else , so obsessively faithful to him that no question of jealousy could arise .
16 Well as an association , we naturally get ourselves involved with many other aspects of the university activities in that erm both the students are applicants of ours and come and talk to us about projects which they may like to see emerge , and other departments of the university , the music department etc. , sometimes find that our knowledge of the area , or certain aspects of some of the schemes that we 're operating , coincide with what they 're trying to do and it turns out to be that campuses like this are often useful places for residencies and artists will come and take up residency in a university for a period of time , and that 's often been exploited by the Association .
17 What the wife back home should hold on to is that , provided their relationship was good enough — and that does n't have to be perfect — in the first place , then the marriage has a good chance of survival .
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