Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The principal charges against Latimer were that he had made improper profits out of the campaign in Brittany and that he was responsible for the loss of Bécherel and Saint-Sauveur . |
| 2 | What 's funny about Frank Spencer is that he 's a fella . |
| 3 | ‘ It was my idea as much as Jeff 's that I went with him . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ A problem for Falconer is that he is just on the way back . |
| 5 | ‘ My objection to Hill is that he is totally irrelevant to most of the things of value that the BBC does . |
| 6 | One story told against the KGB is that it tried to steal the design secrets of the Anglo-French supersonic aircraft Concorde . |
| 7 | On April 11 the Prime Minister , V. P. Singh , warned in a speech in the Lok Sabha ( lower house of parliament ) : " Our message to Pakistan is that you can not get away with taking Kashmir without a war . " |
| 8 | ‘ The problem with Andy is that he has played so rarely we have yet to get him into our pattern of play . |
| 9 | If I left a table in Fif 's that I 'd just acquired , I might attract attention . |
| 10 | All right David is that what |
| 11 | All the cops know about Mahoney is that he worked for Joey Bonanza . |
| 12 | ‘ Another thing I admired about young lads like Ken Logan , Gregor Townsend and Peter Wright is that they have the right attitude , a little bit of cockiness . |
| 13 | What gets me about this guy Alderson is that he served in the country area of Cornwall , and he makes all these proposals about inner-city policing ; now how the hell would he know anything about the inner city ? |
| 14 | Blanche tiptoed over and remembered the face from the photograph of Tatyana 's that she had borrowed . |
| 15 | The trouble with Edward is that he 's practically a saint . |
| 16 | One claim guaranteed to draw fire from Kylie is that she missed out on a childhood because of showbiz . |
| 17 | I think one of my difficulties with Adam Bede is that she begins to lose interest a little bit in the figure of the beautiful , but not actually very bright , village girl , whose seduction is an important part of the story , and by the end of the book we feel that she 's actually bored with Hettie , is n't really concerned any longer to explore Hettie 's own sufferings as the other woman who has been badly treated by the rascally gentleman . |
| 18 | You can do some of Richard 's that I 'm supposed |
| 19 | A notable feature of the ambers from Kakovatos is that they include spacer beads with convergent perforations like those on similar pieces from tumulus burials in south Germany , on the route from the amber coast of west Jutland to the Aegean world . |
| 20 | Another feature of DLT is that it will ask for a yes or no answer before deleting each file , you can also delete only files with a specific extension in a specific directory e.g. DLT C : \*.; |
| 21 | A brief analysis of Primal Scream 's pop career has also taken place , rounded off by a sure-footed declaration from Craig that ‘ the only respect I have for Bobby Gillespie is that he 's been closer to Kylie Minogue 's fanny than I have . ’ |
| 22 | In many ways the achievement of Young and Helmholtz was that they showed , in principle , that colour vision would be possible with only three receptors , providing those receptors were most sensitive to the right colours . |
| 23 | It was a considerable party : 2,000 men in twenty ships , and headed by an intemperate ruffian whose only qualification for replacing Balboa as Governor of Darién was that his wife was the daughter of one of Isabella 's ladies-in-waiting . |
| 24 | ‘ Maybe what upset Dustin was that he knew that , although he was the better actor , Steve 's performance in Papillon was superior , ’ commented Norman Jewison , who had directed McQueen in The Cincinnati Kid and The Thomas Crown Affair , but who never worked with Dustin . |
| 25 | In other words , the basic premise behind the establishment of RMCs was that they should be centres of excellence , performing a co-ordinating role for the provision of management education and its development in their regions . |
| 26 | The great thing about Angie was that she was always for him . |
| 27 | His chief importance to Edward was that he was a substantial landowner in Normandy and was at odds with John II over the succession to the counties of Angoulême and Mortain . |
| 28 | The problem with Seawright was that he openly voiced what many people took to be the true feelings of Democratic Unionists , often to the embarrassment of the DUP spokesmen who were presenting a more moderate position . |
| 29 | All she knew of Travis was that he despised her and believed her to be a thief . |
| 30 | The seven points relevant to the Godhead are that he is true ; that he is everlasting truth — " stedefast & sothefast " ; that Jesus is God 's Son and equal with his Father ; that the Holy Ghost came from both of them and is equal with them so that in God there are three aspects or powers ; that this Trinity is the source of all creativity : that all believers share in the sacraments and are the Church within which lies salvation ; that at judgement day all will rise up , body and soul together , and go either to hell or heaven depending on whether they have done evil or good . |