Example sentences of "[be] [noun] that [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This is fact is a debate about personal freedom the freedom of our tenants to choose the quite legal activities that take place on their farms for whatever we may think about the merits and de-merits of angling or shooting fox hunting , these are activities that Parliament has decided are permissible .
2 This season there have been signs that Jane 's early talent is budding anew .
3 They are honey that wells from the rock together .
4 Beyond the traditional Mercian heartland there are signs that Aethelbald 's imperium had disintegrated and that ‘ the Mercian polity … was in disarray ’ .
5 But as the ripples of recession spread out from the capital and prices at last start tumbling in Scotland , there are signs that values are stabilising back where it all began .
6 There are signs that Japan is heading for a downturn and the European Community too is in trouble , with Germany possibly heading for deep recession .
7 There are signs that users may come to expect a reasonable tolerance of miskeyings from any interactive computer system .
8 ‘ It 's the players who have suffered , but now there are signs that things are on the mend . ’
9 There are signs that government , by means of the legislation it is pushing through Parliament , is doing its utmost to prevent judicial review of governmental action .
10 Although the recent decisions on the Channel Tunnel and the PBKAL ( Paris-Brussels-Cologne-Amsterdam-London ) line are signs that Britain may be coming in from the cold , the country is still seen as an isolated outpost of a European transport network in which the main traffic flows will run north to south linking the industrial areas of France , Germany and Italy .
11 But there are signs that East Germans may get hard D-marks for their funny-money Ostmarks even earlier , as a nice surprise before the summer holidays .
12 There are signs that Israel may now , at the 11th hour , be allowing foreign investors to help the Gazans build an economy for themselves .
13 Meanwhile , there are signs that sales of the bigger Vauxhalls , the Carlton and Senator , are suffering .
14 Thierry has declared his support for Dallapiccola ; but there are signs that Pugachev may be about to break off his ‘ Long Courtship ’ of Guizot .
15 Discipline was a failing during Barrow 's years at Warrington , but there are signs that Brian Johnson has aggression under control and is about to tap the club 's potential .
16 There are signs that Channel 4 has given this matter some thought .
17 But Woodville had the council 's authority for his command of the fleet and there are signs that Gloucester at first felt the need to move cautiously .
18 But Woodville had the council 's authority for his command of the fleet and there are signs that Gloucester at first felt the need to move cautiously .
19 And er you know about sixteen of the twenty two tracks on the C D are songs that people suggested .
20 I do n't know oh They 've been telly that Tom give us , that give us and then I did n't put on
21 The plain fact is that there are steps that Cleveland should be taking to improve the way that it manages education spending .
22 Ministers from six European countries , including Britain , have agreed to set up a high speed network by 1998 although there are doubts that Britaincan meet the timetable because of delays over the Channel tunnel .
23 Of course there are lines that Keith does in second verses , melodic lines which build up to the chorus , and then it all apexes at the solo , hopefully . ’
24 In the event that there are circumstances that members or creditors of the company should know about , the auditor has the power to require the directors to call an extraordinary general meeting to discuss the resignation circumstances .
25 They 're areas that people should not be living .
26 But equally to blame are governments that commission consultants to design over-sophisticated schemes , which are bound to fail , with cash coming from aid organisations .
27 Made without unnecessary extravagance but containing action , spectacle and visual magic , they are films that spring out of the native culture but articulate a broad vision that can ring chords wherever they are shown .
28 Crocuses are plants that nature has provided with a biological thermometer .
29 There has been speculation that Sun will not build another generation of desktop workstations , but will instead design and license .
30 There had been speculation that soldiers alleged to have been involved in the Tchin-Tabaradene massacre of perhaps hundreds of Tuareg dissidents in May 1990 [ see pp. 37703 ; 37811-12 ] , now fearing justice , might launch a pre-emptive mutiny .
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