Example sentences of "[pron] be that the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | JUST THOUGHT I 'd write to say how surprised and disappointed I am that the 10,000 Maniacs have decided ( at the time of writing ) to play only three live dates in the UK this year , all of which are in London . |
| 2 | JUST THOUGHT I 'd write to say how surprised and disappointed I am that the 10,000 Maniacs have decided ( at the time of writing ) to play only three live dates in the UK this year , all of which are in London . |
| 3 | An important one is that the possible substitutes for man ( preserving grammaticality , but not necessarily semantic normality ) are virtually identical in the two positions . |
| 4 | Psychological research on human thinking suggests two alternative views of the machinery of the mind ; one is that the mental representations and cognitive processes are abstract , language-like forms manipulated by rules , and an alternative is that they are mental models whose structure corresponds not to language but to states of affairs in the world . |
| 5 | One is that the light-sensitive pigments of the eye could also act as magnetic sense organs . |
| 6 | One is that the statutory services are not uniformly ideal and beyond reproach and those of us who have worked in and with them would acknowledge that . |
| 7 | They were joined , like most of the other foreign armies that came to Lebanon , by a retinue of Lebanese acolytes , of leftist militiamen and Lebanese Baath party functionaries , all of them desperate to explain how delighted they were that the peace-loving Syrians had arrived to save their country . |
| 8 | Could it be that the first creatures to leave any sign of their existence were as complex as worms and molluscs ? |
| 9 | If a single criticism of Degas Sculptures is to be made , it is that the Gauthier prints are reproduced on a small , often miniature scale and are not presented , as they deserve to be , on a one-to-a-page basis , preferably beside their bronze counterparts . |
| 10 | IF New Scientist has a wish for 1983 that is in theory achievable it is that the two cultures C. P. Snow described a generation ago should again become one . |
| 11 | So it is that the new churches are bound to be and look different to the old . |
| 12 | In particular it will help to resolve the deep paradox that has already surfaced in this book and will continue to do so : how it is that the same features of individuality can be expressed in such totally disparate forms . |
| 13 | It was that the Rural Areas Committee should have executive control over the appointment of tutors for classes and courses and thus , of course , approval of the syllabuses . |
| 14 | Writing in 1932 the English critic Bryher asked why it was that the real virtues and strengths and diversity of America had never been conveyed in the movies sent across the Atlantic . |