Example sentences of "be [adj] [be] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is encouraging that the primary visual areas of both rats and monkeys receive input from the lateral geniculate nucleus of the thalamus but we should be aware of some circularity here since one of the criteria used for saying that the lateral geniculate nuclei in the two groups are homologous is that they both project to primary visual cortex ! |
| 2 | His central thesis is that the only sense in which the people he describes are barbarous is that their customs are other than our own . |
| 3 | Many unemployed people are actually quite invisible in the sense of one of the things that happens when you 're unemployed is that you 're not actually being taken out of your home environment so much , and unemployed people spend a lot more of their time at home than erm do employed people . |
| 4 | Another sense in which you 're anti-humanist is that you have no truck with ideas of personal ( or social ) progress — people achieving self-sufficiency and fullness of being by becoming more ‘ conscious ’ . |
| 5 | Another reason why they are peripheral is that they are so largely rural — in the developing countries too , the rural areas are in a peripheral relation to the urban centre . |
| 6 | Mr Patten said later : ‘ The important thing as far as I am concerned is that it looks as if we are going to have a Conservative government . |
| 7 | The only thing that 's ever wrong with saying something you believe to be false is that you do it in order to mislead someone whom you think will believe what you say . |
| 8 | I suppose the reason I got down to an effort to be objective is that I did n't like the interpretations of my other things — so here I am with an array of alligator pears — about ten of them — calla lilies — four or six — leaves — summer green ones — ranging through yellow to the dark sombre blackish purplish red — eight or ten — horrid yellow sunflowers — two new red cannas — some white birches with yellow leaves — only two that I have no name for and I do n't know where they come from . |
| 9 | Two other requirements that Beccaria makes of punishments for them to be effective are that they should be prompt and certain . |
| 10 | An interesting finding which may also be relevant is that there have been reports of a triglyceride-enriched LDL present in diabetics , regardless of type and treatment ( Schonfeld et al , 1974 ; Mancini et al , 1980 ) . |
| 11 | What must be certain is that their problems will be heard and evaluated . |
| 12 | It also reflected philosophical scruples since it was n't obvious how a mechanical device could be conscious and , as Descartes is famous for pointing out , the only thing of which we can be certain is that we are conscious . |
| 13 | Their only claim to be local is that they are implemented in a restricted geographical area — but then so are certain aspects of defence and foreign policy ! |
| 14 | Part of you being alive is that you 're warm . |
| 15 | One of the other things about those two that were wrong was that they rambled , they were all over the place , there was no conciseness , no clarity to them . |
| 16 | An argument frequently advanced for being consistent is that it is fairer on other people , they know what to expect and ‘ where they stand ’ . |
| 17 | Final evidence that rhynchosaurs were herbivorous is that they occurred in large numbers ; in general we expect the herbivores to outnumber carnivores . |
| 18 | Perhaps the best proof that the previous figures were flawed is that they suggested that Asia 's weight in world output had fallen from 7.9% in 1985 to 7.2% in 1990 , although it was by far the fastest growing region . |
| 19 | Part of being selective is that it is also necessary to simplify the world in order to try to see more clearly just what a discipline can say about aspects of the world . |
| 20 | The trouble with being blind is that you can not see yourself . |
| 21 | The thing about being happy is that you 're happy . |
| 22 | One reason for being hopeful is that we now make machines which do some of the things that brains do , although we must remember that there may be important ways in which brains and existing computers work on different principles . |
| 23 | One of the reasons why the better shipyards and coachbuilders were expensive was that they kept large stocks of valuable timber seasoned and seasoning . |
| 24 | ‘ You see , one of the advantages of being dead is that one is released as it were from the bonds of time and therefore I can see everything that has happened or will happen , all at the same time except that of course I now know that Time does not , for all practical purposes , exist . ’ |
| 25 | One of the problems of some shares being illiquid is that they may be incorrectly priced ( i.e. the market may exhibit pockets of inefficiency ) . |
| 26 | The price you pay for being able to chew when you are young is that you will run out of teeth when you are old . |
| 27 | When one considers that the main reason that words are absent is that they are proper nouns , which will also be unavailable from the larger lexicon , it is clear that omissions are unavoidable . |
| 28 | What is strange is that we often accept the opposite : that large benefits naturally carry with them large risks . |
| 29 | Where the Good Housekeeping diet is different is that it is more than just a diet . |
| 30 | The reason why Excel is different is that it distinguishes between a making an investment and borrowing money . |