Example sentences of "[be] that he [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His problem seemed to be that he believed a Government could do exactly as it liked without taking public opinion into account . |
| 2 | Kevin Irving 's ‘ father ’ writes to admit that he 's Pope , Chas F Garvey 's that he has been faithful to his wife for 42 years , and Mark Ambrose 's that he has a dash of myxomatosis ( to be fair , the father is a rabbit ) . |
| 3 | The biggest danger of Mr MacGregor 's decision is that he perpetuates a system that fails to reward good classroom teaching . |
| 4 | He is rated among the best in the team in the papers , and my guess is that he gets a chance as striker in the next match against Costa Rica wednesday night . |
| 5 | Mind you , it 's not such a surprise coming from one who is self-confessedly arrogant and opinionated and whose only accolade is that he edits a magazine . |
| 6 | Darlow 's main point of interest is that he has a backing vocalist called Bunny Hull ( but not , sadly , one called Frunkie Huwerd ) . |
| 7 | THE great advantage of having a former chief secretary to the Treasury as transport secretary is that he knows a thing or two about raising money . |
| 8 | What was more surprising was that he brought a wife with him . |
| 9 | Individuals may be seen as ‘ cogs in the machine ’ and one of the major criticisms of Taylor 's approach was that he had a tendency to treat workers as automatons who would respond to financial incentives automatically . |
| 10 | The consequence was that he returned a par 72 to recede into the pack . |