Example sentences of "[vb infin] [be] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What he does know is that at least some of the whales seem to have started making Puget Sound their regular summer feeding ground . |
| 2 | What we do know is that in the autumn of 1869 Nietzsche was contemplating a large book , but one of a different kind . |
| 3 | What they did not know was that in ten years time , that beautiful picture was to be blighted by Britain 's first commercial nuclear power station . |
| 4 | What she could not know was that by refusing to deal with the Protestant threat until the crown matrimonial had been obtained , she would throw away the strongest card in her anti-Protestant hand before having a chance to play it . |
| 5 | One key fact they should remember is that outside the United States , by far the largest amount of their prize money comes from events organised and funded by national associations which , in turn , are part of the ITF . |
| 6 | What we can now see is that for the first timefor a very long epriod we have inflation at a ver low level and the clear prospect of growth without inflationary difficulties . |
| 7 | This Edouard knew : what he could not understand was that in the years since the end of the war Jean-Paul had made no attempt to restore the house . |
| 8 | One problem that you may meet is that on some boards , the Dabs board is one , both processor and coprocessor sockets are identical . |
| 9 | The law has come too late for Anna McGurk , all her parents can now hope is that by the passing of this bill , some good will finally have come from her death . |
| 10 | In some quarters , of course , he was enormously popular , and it may have been that as a young man in his early twenties he found it difficult to cope with the adulation of the fans . |
| 11 | It may have been that on his original appearance this condition would not have been satisfied , as it could not have been said that only a custodial sentence was adequate to protect the public from serious harm from him , if the alternative of a probation order requiring residence at a hostel specialising in sexual offenders was available . |
| 12 | Finally , it may have been that before the Pleistocene , with its powerful glacial and periglacial denudation , the amount of gravel transferred to the sea by the rivers was much less , so that there was far less material from which the sea could build beaches . |
| 13 | But the assumption must have been that before nineteen forty nine there was a lot of that going on |
| 14 | In practice what will happen is that in the middle of the field where the deliberate knock-on is no more than inconvenient a free-kick will be awarded . |
| 15 | Neither did we know anything of the controversy at high levels over the relative merits of area versus precision bombing , but what we did notice was that during the winter of 1943/44 , morale amongst the aircrews was not exactly at its highest level . |
| 16 | I was a New Man before New Men had capital letters , but I feel like an Old Man these days , and all I can think is that by the time this one is through university I 'll be nearly sixty . |
| 17 | What they do not say is that on this ‘ best ’ measure , police performance has in fact improved marginally , not declined ( from 7.9 in 1972 to 9.6 in 1986 . ) |
| 18 | The most you should say is that on these facts there is evidence of negligence ( or unreasonableness ) , and that a finding to that effect would clearly be right ( or conversely ) . |
| 19 | All I can say is that at the time everything fitted together perfectly into so glaringly obvious a pattern that I was amazed I had never seen it before . |
| 20 | The only thing I can say is that at least my mistakes are genuine . |
| 21 | I think what we would now say is that of course women are extremely competent programme-makers , but there is n't a lot of evidence that they want to cover different topics . |
| 22 | The worst one can fairly say is that in some scenes — the Andúril ones , the Field of Cormallen , the eagle 's song — Tolkien under-estimated his audience 's resistance and reached too hastily for the sublime or the impressive . |
| 23 | The best one can say is that in those chapters , as in The Lord of the Rings more generally , a work essentially of ‘ romance ’ manages to rise at times towards ‘ myth ’ , and also to sink towards ‘ high ’ or even ‘ low mimesis , . |
| 24 | All I will say is that in attempting to develop theories about the alleviation of neurological dysfunction as she has , Dr Hari has been one of very few medical scientists to address an important ‘ black hole ’ in the research agenda . |
| 25 | All that I can honestly say is that after collecting the facts I do decide one way or another , without having any reasons which will satisfy you if you do not share the same standards . |
| 26 | What the tourist will also find is that among the Arab nations , there are none more genial than the Omanis . |
| 27 | What he did n't say was that during his father 's last days in 1958 Tony gave him marijuana to ease the pain . |