Example sentences of "of [pron] be [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You perhaps do not realize how long and desperately people have fought to keep Winston Spencer Churchill in the wilderness , and how furiously angry many of them are that he is back where he belongs . |
| 2 | One of them is that for all Enzo Ferrari 's mythomania — and God knows he loves the pomp and circumstance of his legend and exploits it in his dealings with the outside world — the Ingegnere knows his stuff and can be perfectly straight when he wants to . |
| 3 | The best thing that can be said of them is that their contact with women is slight , the numbers who participate regularly are few , and whilst this reinforces the commonsense definition of poverty as being a result of apathy , it protects those who escape from the prescriptions of unperceptive need-meeters and from yet more management by misguided missionaries . |
| 4 | This might lead her to change her expectation of the average level of prices ; after all , if she is rational she must know that unpredictable movements in aggregate demand can occur and that one symptom of them is that the price in her island is higher than she was expecting the average to be . |
| 5 | The one thing that really , apar , well not the one thing , many things irritate me about the programme , but one of them is that they get people on so you 've got someone choosing who lives in Edinburgh choosing someone who lives down in Plymouth |
| 6 | But what it meant to both of them was that all the money was frozen because there was a dispute over whose money was what and how much money had been spent — that was a problem for David and for Tony . |
| 7 | One of them was that he opened his morning newspaper with an enthusiasm he had not felt for years . |
| 8 | One of them was that the nurse , robbed of her pleasure in subduing the hair , turned her savagery more directly on to Harriet and once in a temper broke both of her charge 's thumbs when she was forcing her into a new pair of white kid gloves for Sunday School . |
| 9 | He could n't manage it and he said that he felt that he had to stop being an MP er for several reasons , one of them was that he thought most MPs like he agreed he was at certain times , were out of touch . |
| 10 | What 's a good answer to that because I found a lot of people , we had that actually on our and one of them was that she . |
| 11 | A more revolutionary proposal of his was that England players should train together regularly , an idea derived from his visit to Holland , where the national players came together for coaching once a week , and were given lectures and ‘ homework ’ exercises . |
| 12 | There are many advantages of working this way , two of which are that the performance technique required is minimal , well within the abilities of the class to achieve a satisfactory result from their point of view , and that it allows the class and its individual members to control the emotional input . |
| 13 | What the third defendant is asserting is a statutory cause of action under the Act of 1978 , the only necessary ingredients of which are that a person or persons , namely the plaintiffs , have against the third party a cause of action in respect of the same damage as gives rise to that person or person 's cause of action against the third defendant . |
| 14 | Indeed , we make an effort not to use the phrase for a number of reasons , one of which is that we have been unable to figure out what it means ’ . |
| 15 | Job preferment stigmatises those who do not need help , starts a backlash from whites and reinforces the myth of racial inferiority , the most pernicious effect of which is that blacks have believed it as much as whites . |
| 16 | There are also changes to COSHH Regulation 4 and Schedule 2 , the main effect of which is that the use of benzene is prohibited except in industrial processes or for the purposes of research , development and analysis . |
| 17 | The minuet is thought possibly to have originated as a dance movement ( one indication of which is that the violas double the bass line rather than having independent parts as was customary in Mozart 's symphonic works ) . |
| 18 | Despite their many differences , deep ecology , animal welfare , and anti-cruelty have some fundamental similarities , the most important of which is that individuals are morally expendable — expendable for the deep ecologist as long as the good of the biotic community is sustained or promoted , expendable for the animal welfarist as long as the welfare of others is protected or advanced , and expendable for those who accept the anti-cruelty position , as long as worthy ends are not obtained by means that cause excessive suffering . |
| 19 | Several advantages can be identified , perhaps the most important of which is that it would remove the financial disincentive which currently exists for doctors , hospitals and Health Authorities to treat more patients . |
| 20 | The section of the Manifesto entitled The Institute and Professional Success does list a number of detailed objectives that might be expected to help firms increase their profitability , the most important of which is that ‘ unless required by public interest , the Institute should not seek to impose regulations which have the effect of restricting the freedom of members to succeed professionally and commercially ’ . |
| 21 | Now the water industry is set to spend billions of pounds in improvements , the likely result of which is that our bills will go up by at least 50% over the next few years . |
| 22 | This is a thesis which runs quite counter to Milton and Rose Friedman 's latest book , Free to Choose , the basic theme of which is that our problems today result from the intervention of government . |
| 23 | One is to conceive of them as being deliberately designed for the purposes they serve , the implication of which is that we should be constantly reforming existing institutions so that they may better serve those ends for which they were intended . |
| 24 | In other animals there is behaviour which benefits another individual , and moreover there is behaviour the end of which is to benefit another individual , in a sense of ‘ end ’ which requires a lot of work to make clear , but which is uncontentiously illustrated by behaviour the end of which is that the animal should take in food . |
| 25 | It could be improved by including all the results of excavations since 1961 , but this has not been possible for various reasons , the most important of which is that it is no longer the intention to study the results of 367 , but to turn to another event recorded by Ammianus which can be illuminated by this old study and by more recent work . |
| 26 | The point of which is that , with a limited pool of capital , any increase for one must be at the expense of another . |
| 27 | This is due to many factors , one of the more obvious of which is that the cumulative physical demands of manual work may well affect the worker 's health . |
| 28 | The tribunal then decides whether to issue an ‘ unlikely to succeed ’ warning to either party , the result of which is that if that party persists with the claim or a contention as part of a claim at the hearing , and loses , then costs may be awarded against that party . |
| 29 | This conception of services has its attractions , not least of which is that it appears to distinguish the output of services from that of manufacturing . |
| 30 | Superman ( Christopher Reeve ) himself was sometimes hung by wires ( the disadvantage of which is that they might have to be matted out frame by frame by hand ) or supported on a hydraulic arm that came out of the screen at 90° and which , like his shadow , was hidden by his body . |