Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] be [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difference between a more conventional company and an incorporated contract computer programmer/analyst is merely that the former can and does respond simultaneously to a multiplicity of orders which partly overlap and partly succeed one another . |
| 2 | The government budget constraint is so that we must have or . |
| 3 | The defence case was primarily that the shooting had been accidental . |
| 4 | Federal budget requests are just that : requests . |
| 5 | Let the prototype low-pass transfer function be so that the planned high-pass transfer function is where a and b are certain constants , for example for the Butterworth type , and ( see equation ( 12.11 ) ) . |
| 6 | It is important to stress that ( a ) this type of work experience is precisely that welcomed by employers , and ( b ) such young people are socially competent members of labour market social networks . |
| 7 | The main purpose of fling data is so that you or others interested can make use of it afterwards . |
| 8 | But the great strength of whole group drama is precisely that it gives context and coherence to small group work ; it makes it easier for the teacher to monitor work , to make it highly dramatic and keep it tightly focused . |
| 9 | The problem with the ATTRIB command is simply that you need to replace the \ between the -h and c : \etc. by a space i.e. c : \DOS>attrib -r -s -h c : \lite\pcprobe \*; * |
| 10 | One of the most ambitious and colourful of diffusionist theories is undoubtedly that advanced by the English anatomist Eliot Smith ( 1871–1937 ) , a contemporary both of Malinowski and Radcliffe-Brown , who sought to explain the global distribution of mummification and other exotic practices . |
| 11 | The defence argument was solely that Caldwell could be distinguished on the grounds that in DPP v K there was a gap between the accused 's act and the injury , an argument which the court rejected . |
| 12 | The fundamental belief of Dr William Glasser 's Control Theory is similarly that feelings are the product of choice of perception . |
| 13 | SHe knew he was holed up at Roirbak 's place , and was convinced hir instincts were right that Malamute hated Penumbra and was coping with moral dilemmas about what he 'd done for her . |
| 14 | The bottom line argument against heritage languages was always that they were bad for the children . |
| 15 | Does my hon. Friend agree — unlike the hon. Member for Islington , North ( Mr. Corbyn ) — that the Prevention of Terrorism Act is exactly that : a measure to prevent terrorism ? |
| 16 | Criticism of the retraining schemes is often that they train people for jobs that are not always available to them and they expect too much mobility from people who have further reasons , in their disability , for being reluctant to move from their familiar surroundings . |
| 17 | Most tied cottages are located on farms rather than in the village itself , so within the village the most important housing mix is usually that between privately owned and local authority housing . |
| 18 | So I think the scenario within , within the Health Service is basically that units , rather than working together , working in with each other , are actually competing to achieve contracts to , to , to secure work . |
| 19 | The orientation of the Eco RI fragments in all the constructs used in the titration analysis is so that the deoP2 promoter in the cloned fragment and the lac promoter in pUC13 transcribe convergently . |
| 20 | The reason many directors resist starting a pension scheme is simply that it takes money out of the business for example , for expansion . |
| 21 | ‘ If you like , I can drop you off at the travel agent 's so that you can book your flight back down to London . ’ |
| 22 | Head to visitor : " The purpose of school uniform is so that pupils have a pride in belonging to the school . " |
| 23 | The most serious of the plant proposals is probably that from Chile to delete from Appendix I ‘ dead specimens ’ of a magnificent and endangered tree known as alerce or Chilean false larch . |
| 24 | There is no classical explanation for the slowing down ; however , the rate of energy loss is exactly that expected via gravitational radiation . |
| 25 | The case for R&D agreements is partly that they avoid wasteful duplication of research , and allow complementary skills and risks to be pooled , but mainly that they internalize the information spillovers which mean that a single firm is unable to appropriate all the returns to its R&D efforts . |
| 26 | One of the problems of the dependency approach is precisely that its proponents too often speak about one country as dependent on another in a vague and unhelpful fashion . |