Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [be] [that] " in BNC.

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1 The view most favoured is that it could , by the intervention of an official and by means of his coercion .
2 What is less widely recognized is that , whatever their claims to empirical evidence in support , these arguments reflect a particular intellectual tradition , that of liberal political philosophy .
3 Editor , — An important reason why paracetamol-methionine is rarely prescribed is that when Sterling Winthrop introduced it in 1986 under the brand name Pameton the Department of Health refused to add it to the list of medicines prescribable within the NHS because it saw ‘ no clinical need . ’
4 One reason why chalcedony has been so highly esteemed is that it lends itself to a variety of decorative treatments .
5 Well it certainly is but er I 've grown potatoes myself for years and never had any trouble with them boiling into the water but this year I can not get a good potato , all of my usual favourites like Estima which I 've found is a usually good all round potato , it it 's a monkey for boiling into the water and one thing I can only assume is that the weather 's had a lot to do with it , my ground 's been waterlogged most of the season .
6 Forster observed in 1874 , ‘ the only belief much felt is that we are not and will not be papists . ’
7 Well it 's not impossible that er that that developments er can take place erm without erm without having some effects , but what what I 'm basically saying is that erm it it er it would n't be a serious effect acceptable in normal planning terms .
8 Well as I 've s as I 've said earlier , erm what we 're basically saying is that because these erm sites do not perform a greenbelt function and er they then fall into a white land situation , that that white land is a is an area of land that becomes er at the end of the plan period in two thousand and six , er they are areas which could be considered development .
9 What is less known is that at the close of the Southern African conflict , this same general had been discreetly retired , and he had then entered business , dealing in shipments from Southern Africa .
10 The argument against so doing is that the institutions will wish to disseminate the proceeds of the flotation to their various funds and can not cater for contingent liabilities such as warranty claims .
11 What it basically means is that if someone makes a gift during his lifetime and-does n't die for a given period , that gift is free of estate duty , or partly free .
12 What it basically means is that an extrovert tends to tends to have a wide area of interests but wo n't investigate them as much as perhaps that that deeply , and that includes friends as well , and that includes people around them and they look at the wideness rather than the depth .
13 What that obviously means is that they 've drawn from a very , from a very wide area and therefore , they , they 've got the long , main industrial estate , which has thirteen factories , of which only three are occupied , and ten which are unoccupied , which are erm , in fact deteriorating .
14 What is rarely stated openly but constantly implied is that the younger generation should be less negative because they know better ; they are university educated men .
15 What is certain is that , although a lot of ‘ experts ’ are ready to tell you what to do — and you may be the kind of gardener who merely wants a set of step-by-step instructions — the point entirely missing is that it is you , and only you , who has to use your judgement and make the decisions .
16 What is not so generally realised is that many deaths and serious illnesses also result from the poisonous substances produced by a range of other animals .
17 A feature of Pauling 's theory now largely forgotten is that the chain of amino acids in a protein can , at least in principle , be twisted either to the left or the right , giving both left and right-handed helical structures .
18 In the past , whenever he has erred on the side of too much order , the judgment inside the Soviet Union and outside has been that ‘ Gorbachev is as good as we 'll get ’ .
19 What we have said what members have already resolved is that they do not believe that it is necessary for him to intervene .
20 What the elder thus proclaims is that he has a ‘ hotline ’ to the ancestors , that they are on his side and , in effect , do his bidding .
21 The more generalized view which I have thus adopted is that we have goals which relate to our work .
22 THOMPSON : ‘ All I 've just said is that it was not a good enough explanation of what I got and I do n't think anybody has been told , not only to the media out there , myself who is the most important one .
23 ‘ What the documents conclusively reveal is that ministers asked the civil service to cost the Labour review using figures and interpretations provided by the Conservative Party .
24 You what s normally happens is that the following year when you make profit you say ah but last year I made er you know I made a loss of ten thousand pound set that off against the profit of ten thousand pound I made this year so that tax pay losses can be carried forward there are other more complex ways of doing it too but that 's the standard sort of way , I think .
25 What is easily overlooked is that all such work is based on a series of unstated assumptions whose validity has never been examined .
26 What this approach soon reveals is that you often spend large amounts of time not on the things that matter but on activities which are relatively easy to devote time to , while the more difficult tasks tend to be pushed aside simply because they are more difficult .
27 What has not yet been conclusively demonstrated is that birds learn to avoid brightly coloured sickening prey more quickly than equivalent but duller coloured prey .
28 The main reason for the backwards trace is that decisions about the optimal labelling on the forward pass might prove to be local maxima .
29 Best guess is that SunSoft will offer reasonably priced Motif upgrades for Solaris 1 .
30 The best known is that , where there is a gift to a class of children living at a particular date , a child en ventre sa mère at that date but later born alive will be treated as having been living at the date and thus included in the class .
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