Example sentences of "[be] that [pers pn] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ That condition is that we cut ten minutes out of the running time . ’ |
| 3 | The result is that we kill 5,000 people and maim a quarter of a million on our roads in the name of personal convenience . |
| 4 | The result is that we have six MOs , two bonding , of symmetry species a 1 and b 2 , two non-bonding , of symmetry species a 1 and b 1 , and two anti-bonding , of symmetry species a 1 and b 2 . |
| 5 | The significant fact about both phrase types is that we have two property words — a major one ( the verb ) extended by a minor qualifying one — and they are linked together to form a more complex property before they are permitted to enter into construction with a syntactic object . |
| 6 | main problem at the moment is that they want one person to deal , cos at the moment we 've got us dealing with national account and we 've got dealing with the regional account managers and sales execs dealing with the individual branches and I think things are getting lost as it goes from one to the other |
| 7 | The thing that worries me about scientists is that they say one thing one day — like cholesterol is bad for you — and another thing the next day . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I worked on various things , but the reason I 'm here is that I spent five years with SimFic working on artificial intelligence . ’ |
| 9 | I said the thing is that I pay sixty pence for five well I said it costs me another sixty pence to come and change them ! |
| 10 | The only difference with you is that I used two grains of gunpowder and no oil . |
| 11 | The bad news is that you have six months to live . ’ |
| 12 | The information available to me , provided by Liverpool city council , is that it accepted 397 households as homeless in the second quarter of this year . |
| 13 | The thing is that it costs 40 lira to go up now , but if he had waited just one hour more , till the 11 a.m. departure , he would have had to pay only two lira . |
| 14 | So indeed it might have pleased him , for as has subsequently become clear , the best that can be said about the debate , from the Prime Minister 's point of view , is that he had one facet of the truth while General Maurice had another . |
| 15 | What infuriated her was that they charged three shillings for afternoon tea , so she decided to forgo it because she knew the men would still be out on the links . ’ |
| 16 | I lived in Switzerland for fifteen years and I knew many many people who after having had their children would have breasts implants and , they just felt that they 'd got back the figure that they had before the children and particularly one of my friends she had twins and her stomach was so stretched and after her pregnancy she 'd got all this sort of sagging skin and what she regretted was that she waited fifteen years before she decided to go and have something done and she just felt so much better about it . |
| 17 | Can we ask Mr how it was that he eliminated three sectors ? |
| 18 | What was impressive about the group was that it included six US Nobel laureates in economics and a broad bi-partisan collection of the best of American economic thought . |