Example sentences of "[adj] be that [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is quite clear is that after the death of Lanfranc the English monks felt free to assert themselves in ways that would have been impossible while Lanfranc lived . |
| 2 | What is clear is that behind the brilliance of the official Court there lay a core of family — one is tempted to say bourgeois — life , but this is not , of course , how the Second Empire is remembered , for few even of the courtiers were admitted to the intimacy of the Imperial family and the general public not at all . |
| 3 | It is difficult to know about the social morality of the peasantry in the early part of the Tokugawa period , but what is clear is that by the 1850s a relatively homogeneous set of social norms prevailed throughout the peasant class , and that their value system was strongly influenced by the agrarian experience . |
| 4 | The reason for this is that in the A monomer , the turn of the β -hairpin is stabilized by intermolecular crystal contacts , mainly through hydrophobic interactions involving Val87 and Ala89 . |
| 5 | One reason for this is that in the simpler forms of legal system the ideas of ultimate rule of recognition , supreme criterion , and legally unlimited legislature seem to converge . |
| 6 | What is interesting is that for the first time individual patrols would have radio communication via jeep-mounted No. 11 radio sets , but in the event of breakdowns they would also each take two pigeons . |
| 7 | A complicating factor in all this was that despite the opposition of the Eastern District Council , expressed both before and after the decision had been taken , Cambridge University Extra-Mural Board resolved in December 1955 to withdraw its resident tutors from some of the counties it served . |
| 8 | The consequence of this was that by the end of the decade the Unilever detergent and one other brand had captured 90 per cent of the market in Barbados . |
| 9 | One press comment on this was that in the eyes of some it was all too late . |
| 10 | Now , the reason we particularly were interested in this was that from the questionnaire we already were beginning to get back some information , and we discovered that eighty-six percent of people had seen their G P in the previous year , and maybe if we could introduce them to the age-well project at some point during that contact , we would be able to achieve something . |
| 11 | The upshot of these pressures for self-financing was that in the first ten years some 36 per cent of the industry 's investment was internally financed : £488 millions from depreciation allowances and £98 millions from surplus after interest payments . |
| 12 | The second is that from the Cherwell boathouse to the point where the tragedy occurred is a distance of over two and a half miles , including a strenuous portage , and took us nearly an hour . |
| 13 | What is particularly frightening is that in the long term it may cause irreparable brain damage . |
| 14 | The problem with these is that at the moment they end we say " Thank God that 's over ! " and return to eating " normally " — " normally " being all the rubbish we ate before . |
| 15 | Perhaps the strangest think of all about the garotting panic of 1862 was that in the haste to describe the awful contours of the ‘ new ’ crime , the equally ‘ unprecedented ’ alarms of 1856 were almost entirely forgotten , although the same complaints and accusations had been well rehearsed . |
| 16 | What is more encouraging is that in the same survey the Scottish average rating was 198 against a UK average of six . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , the end result of it all was that by the '60s Hawaiian music was regarded with pretty much universal contempt . |
| 18 | What was important was that in the event of a START treaty marking the end of the START process — the discussion on nuclear disarmament between the main nuclear powers — the secondary nuclear powers , such as ourselves , France and China , should try to retain , maintain or , indeed , establish a dialogue with the Soviet Union . |
| 19 | He was the first European to win a Masters title and the difference between him doing that and Tony Jacklin winning the US Open in 1970 is that by the Eighties there were other talents ready to be inspired by the Ballesteros achievement . |
| 20 | The only reliable difference in Table 1 is that between the pooled combining conditions , and versus with : by a chi-square test , . |
| 21 | What makes things worse is that at the moment a company acquiring another can often choose which method to adopt . |
| 22 | The first was that during the dispute of 14 June to 5 August 1911 , Wilson undercut an agreement which he had made with the Clyde shipowners for a minimum of £pound5 10s a month by " temporarily patching up his bitter quarrel with the Shipping Federation and simultaneously accepting an all-round payment of £pound5 a month " which the shipowners were eventually forced to increase to the Glasgow level as standard . |
| 23 | 6.7 The thing which all the adjectives of the sort found in ( 33 ) have in common is that on the intensional level they qualify the relation between the entity identified by the noun phrase in which they appear and the description supported by the words making up the remainder of that phrase . |
| 24 | Bearing that in mind , we find ourselves setting whole group dramas on spaceships or sailing ships , in medieval castles , on expeditions ; and what all these have in common is that within the setting it is comparatively easy to ensure that each participant has an essential role ; we can easily create a chain of dependency , to ensure that each child feels they have a stake in the drama . |
| 25 | The basis for that is that over the next few years the South Africans will be on an upward learning curve after being without international competition for so long . |
| 26 | What is even more odd is that like the AV the STV is allowed to retain its original unitary value however often it is transferred and whatever its preferential status . |
| 27 | The reason this is possible is that at the grand unification energy there is no essential difference between a quark and an antielectron . |
| 28 | ( The prime difference between the two is that in the drama there is no need actually to hide — the hiding experience is evoked but not practised . |
| 29 | The major contrast between the two is that in the latter , ‘ youth ’ had become more than mere ‘ agents ’ of change , and were identified as ‘ subversive ’ . |
| 30 | What is certain is that as the relationship between doctors and their patients becomes less paternalistic , so must the manner in which we seek to obtain their consent for treatment . |