Example sentences of "[be] that [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ordinary domestic horses always suffered greatly in tropical Africa , and it could simply be that they attract more insects than zebras . |
| 2 | The other development officer predicted making considerable use of volunteers as well as paid carers : ‘ it may be that we have two types of carer , an informal unpaid visiting service , and then the regular paid carers ’ . |
| 3 | My own recommendation would be that we purchase multiple copies of a booklet currently available at under £1 , and distribute it to users on a one-per-room basis . |
| 4 | It 's that they have equal decisions , really so you ca n't say . |
| 5 | Now because of these two problems we violate er a couple of assumptions of ordinary lease squares right , and as a result , the upshot of this is that we get biased estimates of our parameters A B C and D , right , they will be biased and also they wo n't have the minimum variants property right , they wo n't be the best estimators you , the statistics you talk about blue estimates , best linear and biased alright . |
| 6 | It is also said that he leaves the defence undermanned , but neither charge was proved on Saturday as Barcelona rode adversity in an absorbing match that emphasised , as one knew it would , how hurried and imprecise so much of the British game has become and how necessary it is that we cherish such exceptions as Liverpool , Norwich and Nottingham Forest if the art is not essentially to be driven out . |
| 7 | ‘ That condition is that we cut ten minutes out of the running time . ’ |
| 8 | One of things on this drug is that we have many cases documented on this where people do n't realize the incredible grotesque feelings they have of mutilating themselves et cetera are actually connected to the drug . |
| 9 | One feature of prison rules as published in most administrations is that they require different provisions for different categories of prisoner . |
| 10 | ‘ The trouble with modern textiles is that they use synthetic dyes and the colours do n't look right in an old setting , ’ Patsy says . |
| 11 | The interpretation offered by Fig. 5.10 is that they hold many elements ( c elements ) in common . |
| 12 | The major criticism of such charts is that they assume linear relationships between costs and output , and sales ] and revenue , whereas this is not always true . |
| 13 | The second reason , less plausibly , is that they regard non-shareholder groups as having legitimate claims on the company and believe that these claims should be satisfied even though a reduction in shareholder wealth is involved . |
| 14 | Their value for a language learner is that they contain all kinds of examples of people communicating . |
| 15 | The main criterion by which all these forms of pedogenic modification may be distinguished is that they affect all parts of the bones and teeth more or less equally , so that the whole of the surface is altered , not just small parts of it . |
| 16 | The point is that they examine such areas with very different specifications in mind to , say , the sociologist , the historian or the political scientist . |
| 17 | One of the few draw-backs of computer faxes is that they treat all faxes as bitmap files and gobble up memory at an alarming rate . |
| 18 | The chief importance of the cases is that they illustrate general principles . |
| 19 | An interesting feature of the jades is that they included numerous pieces in the form of halberd blades . |
| 20 | The reason is that they have different functions , which impose different constraints on their nature . |
| 21 | The importance of corpora to workers in linguistics is that they provide real instances of the language ( as opposed to interesting phrases that a linguist may conceive ) and may be used to train and test natural language systems . |
| 22 | The rationale for the use of these two types of context is that they provide different amounts of prior information . |
| 23 | ‘ The end result is that I 've large arrears on the centre 's mortgage , and now the building society is threatening repossession in the new year , unless we can clear the arrears . |
| 24 | Those of us who witnessed the touch-and-go progress of an ultimately triumphant War and Peace — recorded by Philips for release early next year — feared for the future of the rest , but as Gergiev puts it ‘ that which makes me incredibly proud is that I announced these things and they happened ’ — and , one might add , that inspiration was to hand for rather more performances than the fiercely self-critical Gergiev might admit . |
| 25 | ‘ I worked on various things , but the reason I 'm here is that I spent five years with SimFic working on artificial intelligence . ’ |
| 26 | Erm , I think it 's worth saying that er us j just reiterating on what councillor has just said and that is that I think most tenants are very well aware of the right to buy and er er the motion being unnecessary but what happens with the motion is that it possibly attracts people who really in many ways can not actually afford to buy er to take advantage of their rights but who might be persuaded by very persuasive tactics to do so . |
| 27 | ‘ What 's interesting about it is that I have both worlds , because I play with Phil Collins ’ band as well as Genesis , and with Phil I do all the records too . |
| 28 | The only difference with you is that I used two grains of gunpowder and no oil . |
| 29 | The bad news is that you have six months to live . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ The main problem with fighting a modern war is that you have good generals and dumb generals , ’ says Ed Taylor , of TRW Defense Systems in California . |