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

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1 On the other hand , were every indication to be that there was no chance of the letter ever being posted — for example if the person was a known thief and there was no post-box within a hundred miles — then in this case giving him or her the letter would be regarded as stupid .
2 I take the true rule to be that where a specific article is offered for sale , without express warranty , or without circumstances from which the law will imply a warranty … and the buyer has full opportunity of inspecting and forming his own judgment , the rule caveat emptor applies .
3 So severe does Naylor believe this question of interdependency to be that he devotes the whole of his 1986 study to an attempt to develop an alternative to the portfolio matrix .
4 Another characteristic of the inward investors that two authorities and ourselves have had experience of is that it 's likely that the user or users will want to have reasonably clean air , good water and the ability to work twenty four hours .
5 I mean if , if you er er the whole experience of was that you could get rent reduction and interest rate reduction relatively peacefully so you would n't get disruption etcetera and you would n't get disruption and what , what you might come to recognize as a more , a more viable agricultural system .
6 I take the law to be that someone mentally unfit may not necessarily be incapable of reaching a rational decision as regards further treatment .
7 What Donaldson is drawing attention to is that the experimental context involves a complicated and subtle set of interactions between what is presented , said , and done by the adult .
8 Many people , therefore , encoded his conclusion to be that the limbic system was the seat of emotion .
9 A worrying thing at the moment is as I said we 're in close contact with is that the Malaysian Government is sending representatives over to visit the European Community Ministers in May , to try and say that there 's absolutely nothing wrong with what 's going on in their country with the logging , and they 're saying that people like Friends of the Earth are calling for a ban on timber , not because they care about sustained yield , but because we want to be able to sell our own wood , and this is to depress their trade .
10 Kripke therefore sees the conclusion of the argument to be that if we are to find a ground for our belief that there is an objectively correct method of continuing the series , we must look beyond the individual to the community of rule-followers .
11 It does suggest that the only information the discourse analyst has access to is that contained in the text of a discourse fragment .
12 Er the other thing I 'd like your advice on is that the coffee room 's franchise er is due for renewal in nineteen ninety three .
13 Remember that the significance of is that it indicates the power in the load for a fixed amplitude of input signal .
14 What they lose sight of is that the only possible justification of the expense of supporting these vast bureaucratic machines is to ensure that the necessary high standard of safety is established and maintained .
15 Now , this this material that we use technically called acetate and the nice thing about is that you can write on with if you get acetate pens so you can freehand to produce sketches , diagrams etcetera .
16 And of course , in spite of everything that 's being said , the thing about was that because of the two railway stations you could get anywhere in half or three quarters of an hour .
17 It takes its primary level of analysis to be that characterized by the question of size and by the phenomenal form of the series .
18 [ 1979 ] A.C. 440 , Lord Diplock stated the key principle to be that the general rule may be departed from only where its application would ‘ frustrate or render impracticable the administration of justice . ’
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