Example sentences of "[noun] be [adv] [indef pn] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes I try to think about the concepts behind the immersion and about being spiritually cleansed , and sometimes mikva is just something that has to be done on time , and the spiritual significance is almost forgotten in the ritual of the act . |
| 2 | I think me Auntie Jean 's , she 'll go off her rocker because she is like I say , me Auntie Jean 's only one that she ever remembers cos like me Auntie Jean takes the meal , like every meal down for her and |
| 3 | However , it is important to stress that this latter ambition is not one that Lazarsfeld , for one , felt could be quickly fulfilled . |
| 4 | Haslam admits that being the focal point of all the national publicity that inevitably surrounds the British coal industry is not something that he relishes . |
| 5 | He realized that experience in the quarrying industry is certainly something that you do n't get rid of . |
| 6 | I must stress that the equation is not one that Bukharin himself put forward , but has been derived by myself from his set of simple equations for equilibrium conditions . |
| 7 | A system that forces some into the worst schools is hardly one that meets the canons of social justice with which we began this article . |
| 8 | Given what is said of the need for an ordinary background , the condition-set is of course not sufficient for an effect in an ordinary sense , where a sufficient condition is precisely one that necessitates the effect . |
| 9 | They had very strange habits and hygiene was not something that they practised very seriously . |
| 10 | ‘ Sovereignty is not something that you either have or do not have , like a family heirloom which you take out and dust every now and then to make sure that it is still in your possession and still intact , ’ Sir Leon said . |
| 11 | For counsellors to know the limits of their competence is clearly important , and calling in specialist help is always something that should be done in good time . |
| 12 | The prospect of spending eight months aboard a 67-foot yacht racing the wrong way round the world against the prevailing winds is not something that most seasickness sufferers would relish . |
| 13 | Charitable work was also something that daughters could do without prejudicing their chances in the marriage market . |
| 14 | Everybody was there to be academically acknowledged at the highest level they could and sport was just something that came as well . |
| 15 | Statements of what people intended to get out of the policy-making process are generally something that has to be established on the basis of careful examination of the evidence rather than on the basis of assumptions about interests . |
| 16 | And Jesus saying this this this this salvation is not something that you do , it 's something that is done within you ! |
| 17 | With regard to the latter , it is apparent that the problem of poverty is not one that affects the household considered as a unit but may be differentially experienced by members of the family . |
| 18 | So if the forest is not something that he can see , if you go back to question two , how do you interpret this midnight moment 's forest ? |
| 19 | When an idiom is just something that has the form of , has a certain apparent grammatical form but actually occurs just as a single unit of a fixed meaning , so it has no genuine semantic structure from which you can determine its meaning , for example kick the bucket means die and you do n't get that in the meaning of kick the bucket . |
| 20 | It is vicious because , as I have just argued , the external relation that constitutes the meaning of the mental content is not something that the subject himself can apprehend : it can only be constructed from a third-person perspective . |
| 21 | The element of environmental compared with predation disturbance is undoubtedly one that maintains diversity and if this is removed , the species total may fall . |
| 22 | It seems necessary to remind de Man ( who claims that " deconstruction is not something that we have added to the text but it constituted it in the first place " ) of Todorov 's statement that de Man himself quotes in Blindness and Insight : |
| 23 | But what we find in the resurrection of Jesus is not something that originates from the natural processes of life , but something that constitutes a unique event . |
| 24 | But it is also emphasized that professional competence is not something that can or should be taken for granted , and that the intimate knowledge of the carer-counsellor can often be as useful as the most vaunted professional . |
| 25 | " Development is not something that happens to the poor . |
| 26 | It is [ he added , engagingly ] quite clear to me that an organisation … of this character is not something that can be handled by the ordinary … machinery or either the British Civil service or the British military machine . |
| 27 | You know the the price of the service was n't something that really upset people too much . |
| 28 | When Nietzsche is quoted directly as arguing that " tropes are not something that can be added or subtracted from language at will ; they are its truest nature " , de Man 's paraphrase seems innocuous : The mode of paraphrase frees de Man from the obligation of theoretical presence in his discourse while still allowing him to translate Nietzsche 's text into the terms of his own problematic . |
| 29 | However , this very stringent pattern of homework is not one that many other state schools with primary age children adhere to . |
| 30 | Indeed , the loss of the parenting role is often something that is noticed only by the parents themselves . |