Example sentences of "[be] that they have [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be that they have developed new sensitivities to foods , or that they are becoming chemical-sensitive . |
| 2 | Their problem is that they 've lost five hundred pounds . |
| 3 | If they had now become dangerous , the only plausible explanation is that they had received significant new support . |
| 4 | If they had now become dangerous , the only plausible explanation is that they had received significant new support . |
| 5 | For most of those who link computing and boredom , the explanation is that they have to spend many working hours a day behind luminous screens endlessly tapping a plastic typewriter keyboard , after which they are usually fit only to go and goggle at the luminous screen in their living rooms every night . |
| 6 | The real reason why scientists should be seen as a menace is that they have reduced all our savings , our pensions ' prospects , our records of tax payment , citizenship , even of our existence , to a knot on a piece of plastic . |