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

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1 Even so , there are signs that its inmates were under pressure from the king and his officials .
2 There are signs that their enterprise was resented , a foretaste of the accusations of selfish materialism that were to be pinned on Catalans for a hundred years to come .
3 Individual greed dominates Thatcher 's ideology , but there are signs that her crusade is gradually grinding to a halt .
4 I realise that many of these are not high-risk areas , but they are areas that our officers have got to , got to keep an eye on .
5 Together with the first harvest sheaf hanging beside the icon for its protective magic , these are reminders that our peasant lives in several cultural times simultaneously , one of them embedded deep in the pagan past , another in the religious present , a third focused on the trip she is about to take to the town of Roslavl' .
6 The only exceptions are items that his widow Betty can prove she inherited from her family .
7 I 'm sure there must be things that your institution would like your council to be doing but which your council is n't doing .
8 Letters of her own to a friend had been pulled out of a waste-paper basket by the friend 's husband , who did a jigsaw puzzle of the bits to find if there were signs that his wife had complained of him .
9 Although the inquiry was still in its early stages by mid-1991 , there were suggestions that its impact would not be limited to Western Australia .
10 Four were circulars — two were reminders that his subscriptions to a book club and the golf club were overdue .
11 There were hopes that his wife , Whitney Houston , would turn up at his date in London 's Wembley Arena next month for a guest spot .
12 There were accusations that their presence had been orchestrated using methods reminiscent of the Ceausescu regime , with factory NSF committees giving workers time off to participate in demonstrations , and transport being laid on to bring demonstrators from as far away as Constanţa , the Black Sea port around 200 km from Bucharest .
13 It was a puzzle , really , how he had ever risen as high as assistant bank manager , although there were rumours that his immediate superior , Mr Quigley , had been confined to a lunatic asylum after claiming that aliens were about to take over South-West London .
14 Now there are claims that his antics could threaten the very future of the House of Lords …
15 For years there have been complaints that our school system leads inexorably to too narrow a specialization , especially in the sixth form .
16 There have been rumours that his interest in Italian model girl Carla Bruni have shaken the couple 's marriage .
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