Example sentences of "[adj] [be] that they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Part of the reason for this is that they make the interpretation of information derived from assessments unproblematical . |
| 2 | Now one of the interesting things about this is that they 've worked out , in order to erm achieve our sales forecast , erm the impact of recruitment for each branch is that we need a net growth in branch of one plus one for every er on every month . |
| 3 | The downside to this is that they lose valuable advertising space on television programmes such as Saturday Superstore . |
| 4 | The reason I say this is that they dive just like a peregrine , folding their wings and plummeting like an arrow into the sea to catch their prey . |
| 5 | Erm one of the problems fish have on this is that they lay their eggs in gravel or something like that and where males have their own nest sometimes another male comes along and er takes it over , hijacks it piracy and interestingly enough what happens in those situations a pirate male will come in , displace the existing male from his nest and fertilize a few eggs and then buzz off . |
| 6 | The main reason for this is that they do n't know how to and probably neither do a lot of their English solicitors . |
| 7 | What 's bad about this is that they do n't take drugs — they 've never touched them — but they want to sell them . |
| 8 | This is that they have a different emphasis according to whether they are being applied to consumer markets or industrial markets . |
| 9 | Another is that they retained some of the broader arts/science contrasts of the physicists : the progressive nature of science , for example , compared with the static nature of arts : |
| 10 | Another is that they do n't shove the gear up on their dining-room walls ; you ca n't have a cop or two show up at some billionaire 's apartment in Sutton Place and demand to go through the strongroom . |
| 11 | The reason for this was that they had a different view of tradition from the locals and this caused them to turn to ‘ progressivist ’ ideas and to new ventures put forward by planners in order to effect an entry upon the local political scene . |
| 12 | We now know that the reason for this was that they did not dwell or traffic within the walls ; that Lundenwic like Hamwih lay outside , along the Strand or foreshore of the Thames . |
| 13 | One of the other things about those two that were wrong was that they rambled , they were all over the place , there was no conciseness , no clarity to them . |
| 14 | I think what went wrong was that they took a lot of their ideas from western countries and they sort of felt because this was in all the other countries , we should bring it to Ireland as well . |
| 15 | The problem for the British was that they had seriously miscalculated their own positions . |
| 16 | One idea was that they roll downslope from the submarine volcanic vent like plastic bags full of water , before piling up on top of one another ; another was that they whizzed along the sea bed , supported by a cushion of collapsing steam bubbles ; while a third suggested that ‘ pillows ’ are n't separate entities at all , but long , worm-like tubes whose thickness varies along their length . |
| 17 | The second is that they include not only pedigrees and arms but also , in many cases , ancillary material such as lists of persons to be summoned , correspondence , church notes and lists of disclaimers . |
| 18 | Final evidence that rhynchosaurs were herbivorous is that they occurred in large numbers ; in general we expect the herbivores to outnumber carnivores . |
| 19 | The advantages of these are that they last much longer and cost much less to run ( the saving well outweighs the higher asking price ) ; their disadvantages are that the light they give is not quite so ‘ warm ’ and does not come on instantly . |
| 20 | They 're unique and what makes them unique is that they do not know it . ’ |
| 21 | Perhaps the best proof that the previous figures were flawed is that they suggested that Asia 's weight in world output had fallen from 7.9% in 1985 to 7.2% in 1990 , although it was by far the fastest growing region . |
| 22 | The interpretation offered by Fig. 5.10 is that they hold many elements ( c elements ) in common . |
| 23 | The problem with doom-laden statistical predictions like these is that they draw attention away from the reasons why so many perfectly sensible people are choosing to have large families . |
| 24 | The importance of these is that they make you think and help you recognise what it is that ‘ makes you tick ’ . |
| 25 | Where Musgrove and John Hopkins , who put it all together , got lucky was that they chronicled a period of success that may never have been equalled , let alone exceeded , by any British golfer . |
| 26 | Teachers commonly believe that the reason they are so tired is that they have so much to do . |
| 27 | He can create overall rhythms and within them short phrase rhythms , but the basis of them all is that they exist in groups and by being efficient in action and appropriate to the context give pleasure to both the performer and the onlooker . ’ |
| 28 | But how many 's that they had , nine ? |
| 29 | The upshot of it all was that they wanted me to ask Derek would he come in for a sperm count . |
| 30 | What was evident was that they had all expected Comrade Andrew to join them , even Alice , who knew he disapproved . |