Example sentences of "[noun sg] be that [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 In the whole time that the kids have been going away we 've never had a single problem over religion and the biggest boost is that they actually want to meet each other again after the holiday , ’ she explained .
2 The importance of the ley crop , particularly clover , in an arable system in this contest is that it not only provides diversity , but also a better opportunity for wildlife , particularly plants and insects , to complete its annual cycle than do crops which are cleared every year .
3 The down side is that we probably have the toughest Xmas/New Year you could image ( excluding Crewe ! ! ) .
4 ‘ The result is that we now have a more sensitive version of the traditional pig-sticker , which is ten times more accurate than the old tool in testing and calculating the hardness or softness of clay . ’
5 The result is that you often know your grandchildren better than your own children ! ’
6 The result is that I rarely hear students chatting about science — it would simply take too long to formulate a question and answer .
7 The result is that he now has a company worth £1.5bn .
8 Tomorrow 's World presenter Maggie , 36 , said : ‘ One thing we have learned from alcoholism is that you never know what 's going to happen . ’
9 The proposal in the review is that you probably will need to keep your joint care teams , your JCTs , which tend of course to be professionally and officer dominated , but there are strong feelings throughout the county , and one has to remember the run up to local government , erm , the local government commission is on , strong feelings especially from the voluntary sector , but also from the district councils , that there could be renewed dynamism at the local level , in terms of local care teams .
10 The obvious advantage is that they provide sack-loads of fun and laughter , and the disadvantage is that you sometimes have to wait three hours for them to find their boots in the morning and finish flossing their teeth .
11 ‘ In fact , a peculiarity about this condition is that it seldom if ever occurs in a woman who 's had a baby . ’
12 The only disappointment was that I never did see them feeding , for I could have learned such a lot in those short but interesting hours .
13 When I was , shall we say , inducted into the SS , the deal was that I only operated against the Russians .
14 Jackie was asked if she would take a Thoroughbred mare who had been abandoned in a field and give her a home as a brood mare — but part of the deal was that she also took the pony who had been left with her .
15 They were n't inherently toxic or dangerous , but they were misused , and instead of calling for an ambulance people would have another squirt of the inhaler down their throat and the result was that they unfortunately died .
16 The result was that it then became possible to record the data on a continuous re-circulating loop of tape that would last for 25 hours before being erased and used again .
17 Her reply was that she never cried and moreover had never talked about it since it had happened all those years ago .
18 His reply was that he often did but not usually soon enough . )
19 The irony was that she actively disliked him .
20 A special feature of this part of the programme was that it regularly included a section with about six brief items , averaging 20–30 seconds in duration , including sound bites of 10–20 seconds .
21 If , however , that order was the subject of an appeal to the Divisional Court , then the practice was that they thereafter drafted reasons , usually in quite considerable detail .
22 The effect was that he always seemed to be smiling .
23 A significant aspect of her work is that it always broaches the boundaries between the traditional disciplines of philosophy , psychoanalysis , literary , and art theory ; the implications it holds for each are touched on by the essays in this collection ( for instance , Ainley , ‘ The Ethics of Sexual Difference ’ ; O'Connor , ‘ The An-Arche of Psychotherapy ’ ; Minow-Pinkney , ‘ Virginia Woolf : ‘ Seen from a Foreign Land' ’ ; and Burgin , ‘ Geometry and Abjection ’ ) .
24 Another attractive feature of an actuary 's work is that you never stop learning — both on your own account and from your colleagues .
25 The former lorry driver is now busy exporting Krystom throughout Europe and his only regret is that he no longer has time to go fishing .
26 He enjoys music his one regret is that he never learned to play a musical instrument and is chairman of the newly-established music society which is putting on a season of classical concerts in the throne room at Bishop Auckland Castle .
27 My main subsequent regret is that I only knew my father from the perspective of parent to child and not from that of adult ( parent ) to adult ( son ) whence different qualities and traits of personality come to be appreciated .
28 I noted earlier that Marx recognised the social and political ‘ materiality ’ of lines of demarcation other than those of property holding in the ‘ Eighteenth Brumaire ’ : nonetheless what is striking in this passage is that he never settled accounts with the general theory which denied such factors any pertinence in the long run .
29 The pity is that they always kick the wrong person . ’
30 She believes the general lack of women participants in the sport is that it simply does not appeal .
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