Example sentences of "be [det] that [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unwanted feelings are those that hinder your behaviour such that you are not functioning at the level you are capable of . |
| 2 | They claim to have discovered a close relationship between the rate of growth in Gross National Product and the type of college education favoured by Britain 's economic competitors , arguing that the nations that prosper most are those that prepare their students best for the " enterprise culture " of the late twentieth century . |
| 3 | Exercises that increase stamina are those that require you to breath slightly more heavily than usual for a prolonged period of time ( say , an exercise session of thirty minutes or so ) . |
| 4 | The study doors are those that face one as one comes down the great staircase . |
| 5 | Technical limitations are those that affect our ability to do what we set out to do . |
| 6 | There are those that fulfil their childhood dreams , those that are talented and reach their goals early in life and are penalized because of their youth , as well as those who lack the courage to make their dreams a reality . |
| 7 | I get a tremendous kick from the creative aspect of life , and I think it is this that keeps me so well and full of vitality . ’ |
| 8 | It is this that makes us more advanced . |
| 9 | It is this that gives my soul all its joyous elation , |
| 10 | Maybe it is these that enable them to feel within their bodies the contours of the earth 's magnetic forces . |
| 11 | It is these that provide our basis for living , life scripts upon which we base our responses to all new situations and circumstances . |
| 12 | I 'm here because I believe that we share many objectives and because I know that there 's more that unites us than divides us . |
| 13 | It was around Easter , and perhaps it was this that led him to wax theological as we bounced across the heather and gorse . |
| 14 | It was this that led them to postulate an original state of affairs in which a hypothetical , pre-human , pre-cultural Natural Man was a cow-like creature , without society and without language , living in the wild in a Garden of Eden forest . |
| 15 | Perhaps it was this that kept him alive . |
| 16 | And it was this that kept me going . |
| 17 | It was this that made me unable to sleep , so that coming downstairs , parched with alcohol , for a glass of lemonade , I heard my mother and Lili talking . |
| 18 | I think it was this that made him stop telephoning me . |
| 19 | It was this that made it possible for the whole of the cuckoo 's breeding cycle to be filmed , resulting in an early classic of wildlife photography , The Cuckoo 's Secret . |
| 20 | The emphasis of the New Testament is that Christ resisted the temptations thrown at him and it was this that qualified him for dying on the cross . |
| 21 | It was this that prompted me to scrutinize Greek tragedy and thereby gain the new view of the Hellenic spirit that I have been putting forward . |
| 22 | The hull was presumably steel ; it was this that gave her a rust-streaked look under the dirty coating of ice and snow . |
| 23 | Alexander Ramsay was back in his own house of Dalwolsey for Yuletide , and glad to be , for apart from the festive season 's celebrations , which he always enjoyed , there was much that required his attention as chief of a great lordship of many baronies , many manors and wide lands . |
| 24 | It was these that made her carry on the conversation . |
| 25 | If that was all that separated her from childhood , it was n't much . |
| 26 | Where was all that charm he had lathered with sickening profuseness on Simone ? |