Example sentences of "be [noun] [to-vb] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be folly to pretend that at least part of me does n't love independence or that very independent women make the most adaptable of wives . |
| 2 | How are Americans to know that to the Vulgar British ‘ Bristols ’ are breasts ( boobs/knockers/charlies/tits ) and ‘ cobblers ’ are testicles ( balls/bollocks/knackers/goolies ) ? |
| 3 | There is evidence to suggest that by the time of Euclid these observations were occurring in a cone of vision . |
| 4 | Moreover , there is evidence to suggest that by the seventeenth century both literacy and Bible reading were on the increase ; in the parish of Keevil in Wiltshire , for example , only 4 per cent of testators who died during the decades between 1590 and 1630 appear to have possessed a Bible , whereas during the course of the 1630s and 1640s the proportion rose to 18 per cent . |
| 5 | There is evidence to show that after six to seven years of an immersion program , productive use of the second language still differs considerably in grammatical and lexical ways from that of native speakers . |
| 6 | There is reason to hope that in coming years the fields of pronunciation teaching and of experimental phonetics will become much more closely linked . |
| 7 | However , there is reason to believe that with scientific explanations , the optimal approach would involve discussions between groups of children , so long as the children start with differing but partially relevant ideas . |