Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [noun pl] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | These have fuller protection against agricultural and other developments , but the majority are locations that are unlikely to see any significant land use changes in any case . |
| 2 | I , I 'm sorry to keep saying ‘ Yes ’ to everything that you 're , you 're suggesting , but yes , we are thinking about communication skills , particularly the encouraging and helping children to learn to write properly , I do n't mean calligraphy , I mean actually write and express themselves on paper , oral communication , and things of this kind are things that we do want to pay attention to . |
| 3 | Teachers and teaching are subjects that most people claim to know something about , based on their own school experience . |
| 4 | Such a large sanding area and variable speed are luxuries that many hone improvers may find unnecessary . |
| 5 | Up to 75 per cent of bricks and mortar values on a foroed sales basis , or up to 60 per cent of the going concern business valuation , to include goodwill , fixtures fittings and stock are yardsticks that are frequently encountered . |
| 6 | The left-hand side and the second term on the right-hand side are terms that become zero when integrated over the whole flow . |
| 7 | Present levels of breakdown , isolation , fear and violence are evils that can not be separated from the economic system that delivers the goods . |
| 8 | And without deviating from truth or accuracy , you are telling it the way — and it is possible to do it , without deviating from truth and accuracy — because most of the trappings of the crap are ones that we impose upon ourselves . |
| 9 | Setting a strategy and putting it into action are challenges that can overwhelm even the most effective managers . |
| 10 | Interestingly , while for positivist criminologists the causes of and cures for crime were matters that always needed ‘ more research ’ , for left idealists they needed no research at all — they were already clearly known : crime was caused by the inequalities and degradations of capitalism , and was cured by the transition to socialism . |
| 11 | Most of the wordings initially used for trusts in Roman law are words that could be described as precatory . |
| 12 | The results of that blinkered attitude are exams that are , he feel , worse than useless . |
| 13 | ‘ A lot of the things that the president addressed in the economic plan are things that Mr Perot agrees with — like a serious commitment to deficit reduction , like honest budgeting , like investment in things that matter , ’ said the White House press secretary , Dee Dee Myers . |
| 14 | Most scientists now believe that the molecular substrate for these critical events in tumorigenesis are genes that regulate cell proliferation and fifferentiation — that is , oncogenes and tumour suppressor genes . |
| 15 | Syphilis and its origin are subjects that have occupied physicians and historians over the ages perhaps more than any other condition . |
| 16 | They 'll cost more because they involve much more material and , in particular , more sewing ; but , for all that , the Flare or the Roller are types that can be flown in a wide range of wind strengths , and are remarkably stable . |
| 17 | Other activities of a creative sort are ones that are built in over and above that . |
| 18 | Gullibility and greed are charges that can just as well be flung back at the life companies . |
| 19 | But penning in this raucous melee are buildings that seem all shutters and grids . |
| 20 | Also named in the suit are companies that marketed blood products — Baxter , Bayer , Green Cross , Kaketsuken , and Nippon Zoki . |
| 21 | Two of the walls were covered with his drawings and paintings and on one wall were shelves that Tom had fixed up for his clothes and treasures . |
| 22 | Experimental results showing the involvement of RNA and protein synthesis in memory formation could readily be accommodated to the new molecular thinking , but what really raised the temperature of the whole enterprise were reports that began to appear of bizarre memory experiments involving planaria . |
| 23 | The court was tolds that the |
| 24 | Clients should be made aware that breathlessness , pounding heart , dizziness , tightness or pain in the chest , nausea and loss of muscle control are signs that they are overtaxing themselves . |
| 25 | The sponsorship and the three-way tournament are developments that Ansen Westbrook , the under-21 Anglo-Scots ' secretary , can talk of with great enthusiasm . |
| 26 | I think that recently we seem to have had such , so many changes in the health authority , so many different peoples in the post who all seem to be doing the same sort of thing , who 've got the Family Health Services Authority set up , but it would seem to me that some of the things that are on this piece of paper are things that I understood were being done by the Family Health Services Authority . |
| 27 | Life events can be developmental in nature : weaning , toilet training and puberty are examples that characterise all people 's lives . |
| 28 | What use were services that recalled the Crucifixion when there was Timothy Gedge wandering about the place , a far better reminder of waste and destruction ? |
| 29 | Was there any sense of surprise really that as the quarrier was were Welshmen and most of the workforce were Welshmen that in fact things would come to some sort of agreement , that there would n't be this kind of |
| 30 | Near this left-hand end of the scale are things that are only slightly improbable , such as shaking a double six in a single throw of a pair of dice . |