Example sentences of "be [conj] they [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The advantages of these are that they last much longer and cost much less to run ( the saving well outweighs the higher asking price ) ; their disadvantages are that the light they give is not quite so ‘ warm ’ and does not come on instantly . |
| 2 | The problems with unwanted feelings are that they tend to hinder us in the here and now even though the feelings are often associated with past or future events . |
| 3 | Peel told the NME : ‘ The Wedding Present 's virtues are that they make records which are direct and uncomplicated and it seems that these are now being regarded as vices in some quarters . ’ |
| 4 | The advantages of longitudinal studies are that they make it possible to study change over time , though as a series of snapshots rather than as a continuous process . |
| 5 | Marjorie Perloff has remarked that young American academics and students have a shared culture based on having read or studied the same books : ‘ they have , by and large , taken courses that expose them to writers like Freud , Nietzsche , and Marx , whereas the odds are that they have not taken a course in , say , the lyric poetry of Goethe , the fiction of Stendhal , or the theatre of Molière . ’ |
| 6 | Yet another way in which people may judge the costliness of different types of credit is how reasonable they think any credit terms are that they have recently been using . |
| 7 | And I I think some of the lessons from Eastern Europe are that they have tried to go from one old system to a new system at an incredibly swift pace . |
| 8 | Estimates of the effect of the few Concordes currently in operation are that they have a negligible impact on the ozone layer . |
| 9 | Their strengths are that they have a critical thinking ability . |
| 10 | Their strengths are that they have a critical thinking ability and they can be objective . |
| 11 | The strengths that these people show are that they have an ability to combine a sense of concern , with a sense of order and purpose . |
| 12 | And then the ultimate differences between the states are that they have control over their spending . |
| 13 | No I could n't I mean , and these people are Jehovah Witnesses who sold me this house and my feelings about the commercial probity of Jehovah Witnesses are that they have n't any commercial probity . |
| 14 | The problem with books are that they date very quickly and so it is difficult to get up to the minute advice . |
| 15 | The attractions of these products are that they store well , are easily obtained and offer a high profit margin . |
| 16 | Important characteristics of expert systems are that they provide advice in problem-solving based on the knowledge of experts , facilitate learning through experience and allow the use of natural language processing . |
| 17 | The advantages of these methods are that they allow for careful preparation of material and can make use of the best teachers available . |
| 18 | The advantages of films , video-tapes and MEDIATRON programmes are that they allow the careful preparation of material which is recorded and so can be used many times . |
| 19 | The majority of the training is within the Options Agency , erm , achieve a positive outcome , and I do apologise with all the jargon that will creep in , erm , positive outcomes in terms of these programmes are that they achieve jobs . |
| 20 | Until quite recently the outstanding problem with many recordings of music before 1600 has been that they reveal the lack of tradition behind their vocal and instrumental practice and therefore suffer from an inevitable slide towards solipsism . |
| 21 | Perhaps part of the fascination of movies has always been that they trigger off so many memories but what is interesting about so much film-making in the 1920s is that movies are so closely associated with that age of the masses that had come at the end of one century and the beginning of another . |
| 22 | The strong points in their argument have been that they exhibit voluntaryism in its purest form , that they are free of any obligation to find a programme for the tutor-organiser to teach and that , in managing on voluntary effort alone , they are saving the District that portion of a full-time salary which would not be covered by government or local authority grant-aid . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , the strategy is placing renewed pressure on LAG : ‘ Lignite Action 's position has always been that they do not want to allow any form of boreholing or test-drilling by the company because this will give them a foothold into the area and once in , it will prove more difficult for them to be ousted again ’ . |
| 24 | One of the major criticisms of these previous theories has been that they have tended to see their subject matter ( that is , rule-breaking ) as straightforward and easily identifiable — crime being behaviour that breaks certain of the rules of society . |
| 25 | who has schizophrenia , they 're , they 're because they 've |
| 26 | Yeah and they 're when they come up to London they 're going |
| 27 | Then they 're when they come out erm and she had two erm |
| 28 | I am if they put houses up there yes . |
| 29 | I ca n't even stay in a hotel because people find out where I am and they make life a bit of a pain . |
| 30 | yeah , and er , she gets them back and er they 've got to go through about twenty different processes before they 're allowed out the shop , or out the storage , cos even then , when they 're in store , they 're , they 're , some of them come back as cracked , you get ones coming back from er customers sort of thing , been and they come back and they 've got pins in them , they 've got bloody great er bits on the outside , of the outside . |