Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Federal budget requests are just that : requests . |
| 2 | What checks are there that procedures are being followed ? |
| 3 | The point about studies on non-human animals is not that they replace studies on humans but that they provide us with pointers to what we should study in people and how we should study it . |
| 4 | So the point of the maxim that actions speak louder than words is not that people never use non-linguistic actions to communicate ( which is when they may be deliberately misleading ) , but that language is much less often used to do anything else . |
| 5 | The reason why the Nazis persecuted the Jews was so that people would forget their own problems ; perhaps the reason you do this is so that you can blame someone else for your failings ? |
| 6 | The BBC documentary that alerted people in Britain to the implication of the silicon chip ( Ed Goldwyn 's Now the Chips are Down that we mentioned in Chapter 1 ) ended with the alarming questions : |
| 7 | What is ethologically implausible about Ullman 's hypotheses is not that they involve some ( unconscious ) knowledge about material objects and normal viewing conditions , but rather that they assume the perception of rigid objects to be basic , while perception of non-rigid movement is taken to be a more complex special case . |
| 8 | He has often argued that one of Microsoft 's key competitive advantages is precisely that his firm is not like the old computer giants , offering customers everything from chips and computers to software and service contracts . |
| 9 | In fact , one of the major tensions was precisely that between the residual kinship patterns and the new form of relationships that were being constructed in the course of the nineteenth century . |
| 10 | The implications are again that any analysis must attempt the difficult task of combining the kinds of analysis offered by sociology with those offered by psychology and biology . |
| 11 | The major criticism of this approach to describing organisations is not that it is inaccurate but that it ignores all the informal and interpersonal aspects of organisations and concentrates too heavily on the formal aspects of work organisations . |
| 12 | My veterinary colleagues tell me one of the main dangers with such large dogs is not that they injure themselves ( through overexercising before their skeletons can carry their weight ) but that their diets are over-supplemented , particularly with excessive calcium , which damages bone growth and hinders development . |
| 13 | Liverpool 's main Euro trait down the years was always that the Reds did n't lose many goals in these type of games . |
| 14 | The fears are now that the outgoing government of the Christian Democrats , Socialists , Liberals and Social Democrats will no longer be able to command a majority , leaving a plethora of parties from which it will be impossible to form a working coalition . |
| 15 | Yeah but my ones , my platforms are out that I 've got . |
| 16 | Now why I mean do you think it matters that these things are so that these things are so , that these things which we thought were in , you know private to you , and not available to other people so easily , why do you think it matters that they actually are apparently in return for mo payment , are available to anyone ? |
| 17 | It must be observed that the point of the mother 's stories was not that Daphne should embrace her sister shepherdesses in a sapphic idyll , but , very simply , that she should not allow herself to be seduced . |
| 18 | The conclusion given in both the Johansson studies was simply that the probability of a driver actually detecting a road sign is extremely low , but that some signs are more likely to be detected than others . |
| 19 | The intention behind Mrs Whitehouse 's actions was not that Bogdanov should be punished , but that the values and beliefs espoused by the NVALA should be seen to be supported , to be successfully and , above all , publicly defended from attack . |
| 20 | The objectives are surely that we do the Liberal Democrats some real good , both nationally and in this area , in the longer term as well as for next June . |
| 21 | How many items were there that centred on curriculum content and administration matters and how many focussed on individuals ? |
| 22 | The reason why Hambledon and Ryedale get different standard spending assessments is not that they are similar but that in some ways they are dissimilar . |
| 23 | One of the most ambitious and colourful of diffusionist theories is undoubtedly that advanced by the English anatomist Eliot Smith ( 1871–1937 ) , a contemporary both of Malinowski and Radcliffe-Brown , who sought to explain the global distribution of mummification and other exotic practices . |
| 24 | For example , the Kenyan scholar Ali Mazrui has written that the reason why the Swahili word for a newspaper is gazeti is merely that the first papers that East Africans came into contact with were government gazettes . |
| 25 | In fact , one of the reasons God is so concerned that we do not involve ourselves in premarital and extramarital relations is so that we will never feel we are competing against the skill and ability of another lover . |
| 26 | The rationale for UDCs is presumably that the scale of urban decline necessitates the creation of independent , centrally-appointed development agencies that are free from the apparent constraints of local government . |
| 27 | The reason why we do not notice surface tensions in solids is not that the surface tensions are weak but rather that solids are too rigid to be visibly distorted by them . |
| 28 | During this period , the most effective co-operation concerning the Kurds was probably that between their adversaries , in other words , the governments of Iraq and Turkey . |
| 29 | In the UK , the institutional mechanics are broadly that a government 's intended expenditure plans for the coming four years are drawn up in the autumn of each year , with the upcoming year being the dominant period for consideration . |
| 30 | Er and the proposal that I shall report is the and in particular those matter our certainty of responsibility between various agencies needs to be addressed erm it arose obviously are much more widespread than in the past week , but er I was granted in fact to give consideration to this result of the parish meeting , conventional routine parish meeting at Barnham er on the fourth of January erm which led to the largest parish meetings I think they 've had in many years erm when because people were incensed with the suffering and the hardship that they had as a result of the flooding on the night of Thursday the thirtieth of December erm should let me say first of all that erm I would congratulate all those who were involved er in dealing with the present emergency operations erm it 's quite superb , it 's erm it seemed to be erm a remarkable reflection on the capacity er that to deal with certain circumstances reflects very well on this authority and in saying that I mean it 's not just the opposites to the men and women who are involved , but also whereas I 'm sure many members are here that members amongst our numbers have putting on very long hours in dealing with the present circumstances and I congratulate on the activities . |