Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [be] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is encouraging that the primary visual areas of both rats and monkeys receive input from the lateral geniculate nucleus of the thalamus but we should be aware of some circularity here since one of the criteria used for saying that the lateral geniculate nuclei in the two groups are homologous is that they both project to primary visual cortex ! |
| 2 | The reason I am interested is that at that time I was off work for six months and I suspected I had the illness . |
| 3 | His central thesis is that the only sense in which the people he describes are barbarous is that their customs are other than our own . |
| 4 | However , the reason that the contemporary attacks are different is that the shackling of trade unions was an integral part in Margaret Thatcher 's economic package and if the only reason for this legislation was because it was part of a failed economic strategy then that in itself should be enough , but the real effect of anti-trade union legislation should be examined in the context of a wider social and industrial parameter , and if we take just one Act , the Employment Act of nineteen eighty , we can get some idea of the effect of Tory employment legislation . |
| 5 | Many unemployed people are actually quite invisible in the sense of one of the things that happens when you 're unemployed is that you 're not actually being taken out of your home environment so much , and unemployed people spend a lot more of their time at home than erm do employed people . |
| 6 | Another sense in which you 're anti-humanist is that you have no truck with ideas of personal ( or social ) progress — people achieving self-sufficiency and fullness of being by becoming more ‘ conscious ’ . |
| 7 | The sense in which they are natural is that such ways of behaving are grounded in instinctive reactions , and their prototypes are observed in some animals . |
| 8 | Another reason why they are peripheral is that they are so largely rural — in the developing countries too , the rural areas are in a peripheral relation to the urban centre . |
| 9 | One reason why these two interpretations are commonplace is that , until recently , there has been no clearly articulated theoretical position which offered a viable alternative . |
| 10 | Mr Patten said later : ‘ The important thing as far as I am concerned is that it looks as if we are going to have a Conservative government . |
| 11 | But I agree with Stuart , I think what we 've got be careful is that if we 're gon na introduce something , it is actually erm capable of being enforced and it 's very difficult to see us an enforcing agent . |
| 12 | A third property which may be universal is that a change of a single molecule can , regularly and predictably , cause large-scale changes in the body . |
| 13 | What must be clear is that no reservation under Article 23 , however worded , can operate to extend the scope of the Convention beyond that established in Article 1 . |
| 14 | And what we 've got N here we 've selected as three and so we 've broken it up into three tuples because another rule in the method even though it can be broken is that each pixel can only go into one tuple . |
| 15 | The only thing that 's ever wrong with saying something you believe to be false is that you do it in order to mislead someone whom you think will believe what you say . |
| 16 | I suppose the reason I got down to an effort to be objective is that I did n't like the interpretations of my other things — so here I am with an array of alligator pears — about ten of them — calla lilies — four or six — leaves — summer green ones — ranging through yellow to the dark sombre blackish purplish red — eight or ten — horrid yellow sunflowers — two new red cannas — some white birches with yellow leaves — only two that I have no name for and I do n't know where they come from . |
| 17 | Two other requirements that Beccaria makes of punishments for them to be effective are that they should be prompt and certain . |
| 18 | There was one who told his wife , ‘ The reason I 'm late is that Harry died at the third hole , so we had to go all the way round the other fifteen holes on the course , dragging Harry . ’ |
| 19 | One of the main reasons for wanting one 's own basic beliefs to be infallible is that this would guarantee that they are all true . |
| 20 | Yeah , right , what I 'm after is that set one . |
| 21 | An interesting finding which may also be relevant is that there have been reports of a triglyceride-enriched LDL present in diabetics , regardless of type and treatment ( Schonfeld et al , 1974 ; Mancini et al , 1980 ) . |
| 22 | All that would be necessary is that England , Scotland , Wales and Northern Ireland should be treated as distinct electoral entities . |
| 23 | A search for discrepancies was agreed to be the best avenue of research and one of the more convincing arguments put forward for the work not to be genuine was that the Kouros combines stylistic elements that run from early to late sixth century BC . |
| 24 | These may or may not have significance ; what needs to be certain is that descriptions are accurate , for if they are wrong , deductions from them will be valueless . |
| 25 | What must be certain is that their problems will be heard and evaluated . |
| 26 | It also reflected philosophical scruples since it was n't obvious how a mechanical device could be conscious and , as Descartes is famous for pointing out , the only thing of which we can be certain is that we are conscious . |
| 27 | What must be true is that no system of predicting good and bad risks — computer credit scoring , personal interview , previous payment history , or any combination of these — can be infallible . |
| 28 | In Lonrho plc v. Fayed the facts which the court was required to assume to be true were that the defendants had made fraudulent misrepresentations about themselves to the Secretary of State in order to influence him not to refer their bid for H.F. Co. to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission . |
| 29 | Their only claim to be local is that they are implemented in a restricted geographical area — but then so are certain aspects of defence and foreign policy ! |
| 30 | Then f may now be written as the quadratic form of which the matrix is the leading minor of A of order b — 1 , and we may deduce , corresponding to ( 22 ) , unc Now , by putting unc we establish a similar result for unc and so on , so that finally we establish that unc From ( 21 ) it is clear that a necessary and sufficient condition that f shall be positive is that Di shall be positive , all i . |