Example sentences of "[be] that they [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The further assumption must be that they gave each other a great deal that was worth having and keeping . |
| 2 | Ordinary domestic horses always suffered greatly in tropical Africa , and it could simply be that they attract more insects than zebras . |
| 3 | It 's that they have equal decisions , really so you ca n't say . |
| 4 | One feature of prison rules as published in most administrations is that they require different provisions for different categories of prisoner . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | The main drawback with both types is that they use special paper which can be expensive and is only available in rolls which can make storage difficult as the printer does n't produce separate pages . |
| 7 | It may be that the growth of desk-top publishing will allow a wider circulation of material ( a great advantage of Renaissance texts is that they present few copyright problems ) , but there is little evidence so far . |
| 8 | The real trouble with these provisions is that they gather more power into the hands of the Home Secretary . |
| 9 | One of the properties of particles of matter is that they influence each other . |
| 10 | The downside to this is that they lose valuable advertising space on television programmes such as Saturday Superstore . |
| 11 | The result is that they make less use of their linguistic resources than they do at home and have less opportunity to extend those they already possess , except perhaps in relation to the specific vocabulary associated with the tasks they are required to perform . |
| 12 | The main advantage of compression joints is that they make complicated pipe runs much easier since the joints can all be assembled , tightened , slackened off again and the pipe rotated in the joint to get the position right before the nuts are all re-tightened . |
| 13 | The interpretation offered by Fig. 5.10 is that they hold many elements ( c elements ) in common . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Their big advantage is that they ignore difficult ground and obstacles . |
| 17 | so basically what what will happen is that they put this order on because they 're cheaper at the moment and the next one we shall be cheaper . |
| 18 | Their value for a language learner is that they contain all kinds of examples of people communicating . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | The trouble with everyone these days is that they want constant sensation , to live on the peaks of existence . ’ |
| 22 | The point is that they examine such areas with very different specifications in mind to , say , the sociologist , the historian or the political scientist . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Historically the most important aspect of Davenant 's productions is that they removed English masque/opera from the Court to the field of public entertainment . |
| 25 | The chief importance of the cases is that they illustrate general principles . |
| 26 | My main complaint concerning students of modern sediments is that they pay more attention to the question of how sediments are deposited than to the question as to whether or not they stay there . |
| 27 | An interesting feature of the jades is that they included numerous pieces in the form of halberd blades . |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | The problem with all these drugs is that they have many side effects which are sometimes fatally toxic . |
| 30 | The main problem for instrumental Marxist accounts is that they have great difficulty in explaining the eclecticism and indeterminacy of events in the world under a single reductionist or economist explanation which relates all actions by the state to the desires and power capabilities of a ruling class based on economic ownership . |