Example sentences of "[be] [noun] that [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So they you are Hereford that makes you something special . |
| 2 | A similar paradox can arise with other norms supposedly based at a biological level , but there are cases that avoid it . |
| 3 | He had been an army officer once and there had been trouble that caused him to leave the army . |
| 4 | Equally , there may well be things that concern you that have been left out , so use the blank spaces to write in your own ideas . |
| 5 | Although the alarms looked inexpensive , there were concerns that providing them would saddle landlords with ongoing maintenance costs . |
| 6 | But the Pilkington dispute could not have been anticipated ( although there were issues that precipitated it — pay levels were perceived to be low and the initial walkout occurred over a wages error ) . |
| 7 | AUX ARMEES FRANCAISES and FONDE PAR NAPOLEON EN 1806 , TERMINE PAR LOUIS PHILIPPE I are inscriptions that tell us indirectly why the piece was made . |
| 8 | We know that it is smell that guides them , for salmon with their nostrils blocked get lost . |
| 9 | It needs to be done now and it 's going to cost us more if we leave it till later , on that point I ca n't agree with your budget , so , I 'm afraid , it 's roads that put me against it . |
| 10 | It is fear that stops us from living a life of fulfilment . |
| 11 | It 's Gemma that fancies you . |
| 12 | As long as the neck is attached firmly to the body , it does n't matter if it 's bubblegum that holds it on there ! |
| 13 | As long as the neck is attached firmly to the body , it does n't matter if it 's bubblegum that holds it on there ! |
| 14 | ‘ The temptation is always there , but it 's privacy that makes it irresistible . |
| 15 | Oh it 's Pam that makes them the bother , not anybody else . |
| 16 | For history reveals , time and again , that while vertical thinking can bring our full intellectual powers to bear upon a problem and thus to consolidate a position , it is chance that causes us to stumble upon it ( both the problem and its possible solution ) in the first place . |
| 17 | None of the theories proposed for the phenomenon is wholly satisfactory but there is evidence that requires us to accept at least some aspects of several of them . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's over-consumption that got us into this mess in the first place , ’ says Julia Langer . |
| 19 | A gesture can not be regarded as the expression of an individual , as his or her creation ( because no individual is capable of creating a fully original gesture , belonging to nobody else ) , nor can it even be regarded as that person 's instrument ; on the contrary , it is gestures that use us as their instruments , as their bearers and incarnations . |
| 20 | No it is communication that tells us that it is so awful now . |
| 21 | It 's gravity that kept you in orbit you and the Shuttle . |
| 22 | It 's gravity that pulls you down and presses you to the floor . |
| 23 | It 's depression that makes us think . |
| 24 | It is Ego that thinks we should constantly fret about our family and the future , in case God decides we are taking life for granted , and hurls down a bolt of lightning . |
| 25 | A loaded rifle keeps them in line , but it 's debt that keeps them working . |
| 26 | Well no it 's Hayley that takes it |
| 27 | When she saw Daniel , shedding red and white fuzz , she said palely that she was afraid now she would lose little Stephen , it was hope that killed you , was n't it , best not to hope , but what else could you do , sitting there ? |
| 28 | He 's become better known as a zoologist , but has n't forgotten it was Swindon that offered him his first exhibition . |
| 29 | They are very pretty , but somewhat ludicrously sentimental ; that is , when one reflects that it was Rousseau that wrote them . |
| 30 | It was preparation that did it |