Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [conj] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An advantage of wind is that it at least partially kills sound . |
| 2 | ‘ The result is that everybody in the area is delighted . ’ |
| 3 | The fear is that we as a country in general , and Lowestoft in particular , will lose on quota swaps , as my hon. Friend the Minister acknowledged . |
| 4 | His reasoning was that none of the men who were conceivable successors were of sufficient stature to reign — he talked privately about his " monarchy " — without the legitimation of popular election . |
| 5 | The result was that one round ‘ cooked-off ’ and fired into the fin and rudder . |
| 6 | And the reason it was a landmark was because nothing in the show itself was a cliché . |
| 7 | The plan is that none of these people will be able to purchase any of the seven thousand tickets available to England for the first round matches . |
| 8 | The bare statistical truth of solvent abuse is that one in four of the children who die from the habit do so the first time they ever sniff glue or lighter fluid . |
| 9 | A female mammal is if you like erm the egg in in other classes of higher animals a female lays an egg , the egg contains all the nutrients or possibly incubated . |
| 10 | Due to the low pay offered the likelihood was that anyone with creative talent would be attracted to a better-paid job elsewhere . |
| 11 | Of crucial importance is that none of these experiments require the animals to suffer any pain whatsoever . |
| 12 | my Lord er , to only just final conclusions my Lord the first conclusion is that nothing in community law , nothing in the directives in the insurance companies act can be pointed to by which grants powers to them to regulate the insurance markets . |
| 13 | The bigger point is that nothing in Poland is static any longer . |
| 14 | This album 's minus point is that it 's only 40 minutes long ; its plus point is that none of its songs are even a millimetre below excellent . |
| 15 | The important point is that none of these beings is referred to as evil , nor their harmful acts as aggressive or violent . |
| 16 | The point is that none of those was accompanied by an earthquake . |
| 17 | The drawback is that lots of people use them and that lots and lots of people will want to use it on precisely the night you require to be there . |
| 18 | I 'd grappled up the slope on foot just before and knew how steep and icy its surface was and which of the bigger rocks had to be dodged because they would foul the car 's underside . |
| 19 | And yet his knowledge was as nothing beside the compulsion that drove him to see her again . |
| 20 | The trouble is that none of the three firms is nearly as Japanese as the owners would like it to be . |
| 21 | The official stance is that none of this plutonium is destined for anything other than non-military purposes . |
| 22 | My own feeling is that we at least need to start where the children feel most comfortable , and then to introduce elements which are better described as mythic rather than fantastic ; that is , to dramatise or create stories which contain imagery and symbolism which are likely to excite the children , and yet which they can relate to their own lives . |
| 23 | The trouble was that none of us could understand it . |
| 24 | You ken your wee dixie 's that you for your grub . |
| 25 | The problem with this approach is that everything in the current political scene can be redescribed as the first phase of class struggle . |
| 26 | So perhaps the first thing about that continuum is that none of them are right or wrong we all dis-represent the ways of behaving and it 's very much a personal choice which one will use at one stage . |
| 27 | That ordinary belief in turn gives some support , to say no more , to theories of determinism pertaining to our choices and actions : theories whose burden is that we in our lives are a matter of such connections . |
| 28 | The reason was that none of these reforms shifted the balance of power within the social structure of the village . |
| 29 | What was clear from one hearing was that none of them is paste . |
| 30 | Pete 's guess was that everybody in the valley knew something about her by now , and nearly all of them would know that she was staying in his house . |