Example sentences of "[adj] be that [det] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is clear is that such private desires were not sealed off from the world of public representations . |
| 2 | One reason for this is that many grammatical elements are themselves bearers of meaning — this is true , for instance , of the past tense affix — ed , and the plural affix — s . |
| 3 | A further suggestion that flows from this is that such evolutionary considerations lend support to a competing grammatical paradigm — that of Montague grammar . |
| 4 | But the most surprising fact about this is that all these events took place during the deposition of a single graptolite zone . |
| 5 | One of the reasons for believing that cross-species extrapolation is possible at all is that all living animals have evolved from common ancestors that existed at some time in the distant past . |
| 6 | But it was in the air for a second reason also : for one striking feature of the years 1929–31 was that all three parties were deeply divided . |
| 7 | The first is that many important aspects of language processing occur in units that are larger than the single sentence . |
| 8 | Hollywood had captured the British film audience and what was worse was that those English films that were made were all too prepared to ape Hollywood conventions . |
| 9 | As a physical description , we expect the passage to contain a large number of physical , concrete nouns ( stakes , bamboo , fences , fishermen , ruins , etc ) but what is more striking is that these concrete nouns are matched by nouns which are more abstract in one way or another . |