Example sentences of "be [noun pl] that [pos pn] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | Even so , there are signs that its inmates were under pressure from the king and his officials . |
2 | There are signs that their enterprise was resented , a foretaste of the accusations of selfish materialism that were to be pinned on Catalans for a hundred years to come . |
3 | Individual greed dominates Thatcher 's ideology , but there are signs that her crusade is gradually grinding to a halt . |
4 | I realise that many of these are not high-risk areas , but they are areas that our officers have got to , got to keep an eye on . |
5 | Together with the first harvest sheaf hanging beside the icon for its protective magic , these are reminders that our peasant lives in several cultural times simultaneously , one of them embedded deep in the pagan past , another in the religious present , a third focused on the trip she is about to take to the town of Roslavl' . |
6 | The only exceptions are items that his widow Betty can prove she inherited from her family . |
7 | I 'm sure there must be things that your institution would like your council to be doing but which your council is n't doing . |
8 | Letters of her own to a friend had been pulled out of a waste-paper basket by the friend 's husband , who did a jigsaw puzzle of the bits to find if there were signs that his wife had complained of him . |
9 | Although the inquiry was still in its early stages by mid-1991 , there were suggestions that its impact would not be limited to Western Australia . |
10 | Four were circulars — two were reminders that his subscriptions to a book club and the golf club were overdue . |
11 | There were hopes that his wife , Whitney Houston , would turn up at his date in London 's Wembley Arena next month for a guest spot . |
12 | There were accusations that their presence had been orchestrated using methods reminiscent of the Ceausescu regime , with factory NSF committees giving workers time off to participate in demonstrations , and transport being laid on to bring demonstrators from as far away as Constanţa , the Black Sea port around 200 km from Bucharest . |
13 | It was a puzzle , really , how he had ever risen as high as assistant bank manager , although there were rumours that his immediate superior , Mr Quigley , had been confined to a lunatic asylum after claiming that aliens were about to take over South-West London . |
14 | Now there are claims that his antics could threaten the very future of the House of Lords … |
15 | For years there have been complaints that our school system leads inexorably to too narrow a specialization , especially in the sixth form . |
16 | There have been rumours that his interest in Italian model girl Carla Bruni have shaken the couple 's marriage . |