Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [be] [that] " in BNC.
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1 | The reason so many things are delayed is that they have to be perfect . |
2 | ‘ What you are suggesting is that this Andropulos is some kind of mastermind — possible world co-ordinator — of drug-smuggling ? |
3 | What we are suggesting is that such an education does not add up to learning to be independent , to participating in and contributing to one 's own community , either as a child or later as an adult , as the aims of education purport . |
4 | I have been talking about experiences which affect both men and women ; what I am suggesting is that the role of the Weaving Mother is to spin a thread , a bond , from the ‘ raw material ’ proffered by the male . |
5 | What I am suggesting is that both my aunt 's remark and her attitude stemmed from assumptions already prevalent within the family as to what was appropriate behaviour . |
6 | What I am suggesting is that you should not underrate your ability to succeed in what is now a highly competitive market place . |
7 | What I am suggesting is that if education is for all then it must meet all needs . |
8 | All I am suggesting is that the balancing exercise should be capable of being performed . |
9 | What I am suggesting is that this use of ultra simple " binary logic " , which is tied in with the way we recognize speech sounds , is an inbuilt feature of our psychological make-up which distinguishes us as human beings . |
10 | What I am suggesting is that Spenser 's texts offer glimpses of issues which Elizabethan culture found awkward to confront directly — a belief in the precariousness of its civilisation given the existence of savagery ( exemplified by other customs , baser classes , other religions ) confronting a self-defined orderly minority . |
11 | So what I am suggesting is that you do n't accept this resolution and you accept a modified or amended version of it . |
12 | What I am suggesting is that I think if you if you concentrate only on the question of who are the chief officers that 's very important and that 's very indicative , but it 's not the whole story . |
13 | The only prediction which it could be claimed has been validated is that the rate of profit would fall . |
14 | I think what what point is being made is er albeit from assistance from should have been referred is that an operation will always have been drawn up . |
15 | We are told that " the reason why constituencies of about five members are recommended is that they form communities [ ? ] where electors may be expected to have sufficient personal knowledge of the candidates ' . |
16 | The whole carpeting of the building which has been done was that the consultants come in look at colour schemes and say this is what to do . |
17 | One point which has been decided is that an odour need not be prejudicial to health to amount to a nuisance , rather in deciding the question the court will consider all the circumstances including the character of the locality in which the plaintiff is living , the nature , intensity and frequency of the odour , the time and effects of its commission . |
18 | ‘ One of the things that has been said is that it 's actually very difficult to get a purchaser for your shares on the USM even though in theory it 's an open market . |
19 | One recommendation that has been made is that there should be a ‘ decade of retirement ’ , between the ages of 60 and 70 . |
20 | A long and somewhat rambling discussion followed during which the judge effectively tried to persuade the barrister that he must get up before the jury in order to say , ‘ in terms that the remark that you made was a remark which should not have been made and apologise , and you can say in terms that one of the reasons why it was a remark which should not have been made was that you had never seen the document ; you did not know what it contained . ’ |
21 | A particular characteristic of a state in which extensive social policies have been adopted is that it is a bureaucratic state . |
22 | And what happens to the little oxygens once they 're discarded is that they do n't go back and join an oxygen molecule . |
23 | So the implication of that study and it 's a rather astonishing one , although it fits exactly with , with the argument we 're developing is that because these , these women were living in very difficult circumstances , in prison , they were even more discriminating about the offspring they were actually and they did n't carry a single one to term that had a birth defect . |
24 | Three point one okay so this is where the model , in effect what we 've done which is a very crude way , right , of erm incorporating exogamous influences , right , we have n't said tha that the war is going to affect the income or price elasticity what we did do , right , all that we 're doing is that we 're allowing the intercept of our model to change , right , now as a result , we 've got , we can prove the st the statistical significance of all the variables in our model , right , the co the actual coefficients that we 've estimated have changed quite significant , particularly in the er the incoming elasticity , right , the incoming elasticity was less than one , right , and insignificance before was now greater than one and height of R squared has also increased dramatically our measure of explanatory power . |
25 | Right , okay , erm let's now move on to er these other diagnostics , right , like test for structural change these diagnostic test statistics that are calculated for right , because essentially what they 're doing is that they 're testing the assumptions on which ordinary leased squares is based . |
26 | Now we can just rearrange that expression to get the expectation of prices for the period T , right all we 're doing is that we 're adding P T minus two , P T minus one to both sides , alright and we 'll get gamma into P T minus one erm , plus open brackets mi minus gamma into expectation at T minus two of prices at T minus one okay . |
27 | When it comes down to it , all you 're saying is that the likes of Tina Turner and Mick Hucknall have created a bloated travesty of soul . |
28 | ‘ So what you 're saying is that Bernard 's the only person who knows when the hit on Mobuto 's going to take place ? ’ |
29 | I mean you could have , if you have basically what we 're saying is that you have a whole load of of subject reports and on the top of it you 've got form tutor report |
30 | But what you 're saying is that when you accelerate — when you go faster and faster in an upwards direction — as you did coming out of that big drop — it 's like adding extra gravity . |