Example sentences of "[be] that he [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not possible to reconstruct a detailed history of Ine 's reign but the indications are that he ruled with firmness . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , the signs are that he died as a result of poisoning but this has to be confirmed . ’ |
| 3 | Du Cann 's fundamental problem has been that he wanted to be seen as cross between a Tory grandee and country squire . |
| 4 | My own assessment before we had the check would have been that he worked within C.N.D. because he was a committed C.N.D. member rather than working in C.N.D. in order to further the interests of the Communist Party . |
| 5 | An alternative to thinking that Harald had been in England since 1016 , and returned to Denmark with part of a disbanded fleet in 1018 , might be that he had in the interval been expelled from it , and sailed with the fleet in 1018 in an attempt to regain control . |
| 6 | Indeed , the professor 's rationale may be that he wishes to be involved in two completely different activities . |
| 7 | A managerial action could be that he transfers with the outside party services . |
| 8 | The only difference from the literary effusions of today 's superstars were that he wrote without benefit of a ‘ ghost ’ . |
| 9 | The conditions were that he resides at Handley Green , Laindon , reports daily to Laindon police station and does not enter Clacton . |
| 10 | All that 's stopping him being welcomed into the great freemasonry of the over-fifties is that he happens to be thirty-two . |
| 11 | All I know is that he lived in Glasgow . |
| 12 | The reason we know that God recognises this dimension in the human personality is that he goes to such great lengths to make it very clear that he loves us , and one of his primary commands to us is that we must love one another . |
| 13 | But what remains important about Barthes 's substantive work is that he points to cultural phenomena in the everyday realm that are ( or were ) regarded as insignificant — they are , he reveals , laden with meaning and social and political significance . |
| 14 | What gets me about this guy Alderson is that he served in the country area of Cornwall , and he makes all these proposals about inner-city policing ; now how the hell would he know anything about the inner city ? |
| 15 | The theological answer is that He feels at home anywhere because He is at home everywhere . |
| 16 | The fact is that he went to a race meeting at Silverstone in 1965 and decided right then and there that what he wanted most was to be a racing driver . |
| 17 | ‘ The trouble with Joe , ’ one of his more affluent colleagues in the pop business told me , ‘ is that he suffers from the fatal curse of taste . ’ |
| 18 | The inference in his letter is that he speaks for the Council of the National Union of which he is chairman . |
| 19 | The thing about Tim is that he came to us with a experience of a polishing shop so he was very well placed to help us improve our spiriting-out technique that is so necessary on a fine shellac finish . |
| 20 | The other thing is that he asked for his family . |
| 21 | He gave a course of lectures in Rotherham in 1803 , but thereafter the next certainty is that he died in Tamworth and was buried there 23 August 1810 . |
| 22 | The reason is that he began to seen the economic concepts on which the society of his time was based , such concepts as value , price , property , and above all , labour , as the nineteenth-century equivalent of religion . |
| 23 | The good news is that he charges in 15-minute slots of £5.86 , so you do n't have to pay for a whole hour if he 's only worked five minutes of it . |
| 24 | She says all we know is that he comes from London and he wants to remain anonymous . |
| 25 | news on Ronny Johnsen ( who has been linked with Leeds as a central defender ) is that he starts for Norway tonight as the 1 ( lone atttacker ) in our 4–5-1 formation against Turkey , i think the game will be shown live on SkySports . |
| 26 | Now what I ca n't explain why , is that he starts with thirty two , now whether he sort of gets muddled up with the sort of the system of something I do n't know , but for some reason best known to himself , he starts with thirty two , and the continuum goes up to a hundred and sixty . |
| 27 | The reason that has been given for saying that Halley 's attempt was serious , rather than merely placatory , is that he confessed in public that his efforts had not , after all , produced decisive results . |
| 28 | The only sign of his accident is that he walks with a slight limp . |
| 29 | What he really means is that he putted like the devil and it was grossly unfair — there is even a feeling that it is ‘ not quite golf ’ to win by superior skill on the greens . |
| 30 | But all that happens to him is that he topples into the mud with his arm broken and his face bruised from where the broken arm was smashed against it . |