Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But the thing about Robbo is that he is a determined beggar and I know that if I ask him , he will say OK if he 's ready . |
| 2 | ‘ The great thing about Robbo is that he brings that bit extra out of people , ’ said Ferguson . |
| 3 | Her mother and sister were fine-looking women , but the odd thing about Sheila was that her beauty was not an enlargement or an enhancement of their near-handsomeness . |
| 4 | ‘ The most important thing I wanted to show about Feisal was that he was a nice person . |
| 5 | If somebody comes up with a suggestion for a change to a procedure , at this meeting , yes you should be looking at what that suggestion for change is but all of you round the table should be thinking , well does that change adversely effect other jobs in our areas and it should n't happen that you will get change after change after change . |
| 6 | ‘ All I can say about Chelsea is that Newcastle United would be a bigger club if we got things right here . ’ |
| 7 | The main complaint that I have about d'Compress is that it does not use standard DOS key and mouse commands . |
| 8 | The whole point about chaos is that it roars down on you when you least expect it , like a motorcycle messenger . |
| 9 | Er the nominations for chairman are and Graham . |
| 10 | The important thing about notes is that you understand them . |
| 11 | I seem to remember that the first information I ever had about Ben was that he had measles ! |
| 12 | Remember that the point about self-access is that the learners make their own choices about how they will use the resources at their disposal . |
| 13 | A further reason for caution with regard to RE through story is that knowing a story does not by itself provide sufficient safeguard against serious misunderstandings which can have far-reaching effects on people . |
| 14 | One of the biggest problems for Ferguson is that opponents always raise their game against Manchester United . |
| 15 | The disadvantage of using water as a medium for cooking is that it absorbs a considerable proportion of the minerals and vitamins in the potato . |
| 16 | The remarkable thing about teacher-in-role is that it allows the teacher to change into a different gear , as it were , as subtly or as crudely as the occasion seems to require . |
| 17 | The good thing about cruises is that you always have the ship 's staff to help you if you have a problem and there are always guided tours laid on at every port of call . |
| 18 | Now the question for decision is whether the court should require a health authority to provide for a child treatment involving the performance by doctors of services requiring the exercise of professional skill against the will of the doctors concerned . |
| 19 | The great thing for Ben is that he has Peter Winterbottom on one side of him and ‘ Lazarus ’ on the other . |
| 20 | The main reason for the first three failures to carry the Bill through Parliament was that the then Secretary of State for Education , George Kekewich , objected to the clauses in the Bill whereby it was not compulsory for local authorities to make any provision for the education of deaf children in their area . |
| 21 | The bottom line for liability is that you are only legally committed to an agreement made by an agent when : |
| 22 | Surgery hours during term-time are as follows : |
| 23 | The important point about heritability is that we do not need to know anything about the actual genotypes in order to say what it is . |
| 24 | He says the two main benefits for shareholders are that the perks are a ‘ bit of fun ’ that it ‘ enables them to relate more to the company . ’ |
| 25 | Bad news for shareholders is that the dividend for the year is being halved to 5.25p per share . |
| 26 | A point to note about technique is that when you actually go round the mark in strong winds the daggerboard should be retracted first then the mast track moved back in preparation for the reach . |
| 27 | However , the major weakness of the Keynesian theory of the demand for money is that it is couched in terms of a choice simply between money and bonds . |
| 28 | The major frustration for prisoners is that these courses are so much in demand . |
| 29 | The implication for teaching is that texts or situations should not be devised where only the next level of ‘ difficulty ’ is provided , since these are not necessary . |
| 30 | One interesting quirk that emerged during installation was that the everything worked fine on the Zenith Z-150 [ an excellent IBM clone ] yet when the program was installed on a Compaq Plus [ also extremely compatible ] with the special Compaq driver everything went subtly awry . |