Example sentences of "[be] that they [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The advantages of films , video-tapes and MEDIATRON programmes are that they allow the careful preparation of material which is recorded and so can be used many times . |
| 2 | A feature of all these quotes is that they conflate the social and the personal ; Vicky , for example , argues that the arts are ‘ a waste of taxpayers ’ money' and then says ‘ I could n't motivate myself to do it ’ . |
| 3 | The problem with ‘ infant industry ’ and other import controls is that they protect the domestic producer , whether foreign or local . |
| 4 | SVQs are nationally recognised awards ; their particular feature is that they incorporate the occupational standards defined by industry Lead Bodies . |
| 5 | An essential feature of general SVQs is that they preserve the main characteristics of occupational SVQs . |
| 6 | We remember the dazzling tries of Gareth Edwards , Gerald Davies and the rest but what tends to be forgotten is that they needed the Welsh forwards to pulverise their opponents into submission first . |
| 7 | Marx 's main quarrel with writers such as Maine is that they see the communal aspect of the descent group as growing out of the expansion of the family . |
| 8 | The reason I single out the engineers rather than the commentators or the producers is that they ensured the best pictures of the University Boat Race ever seen , as well as the usual smooth coverage of the Grand National . |
| 9 | The idea is that they feed the other side with what appears to be genuine material so as to establish their credibility and then the other side asks them to do things for them on their own home ground . |
| 10 | The only drawback to both the studies , by Fothergill and Gudgin , and Frost and Spence , is that they predate the economic recession of the 1980s and the reduction in public sector employment pursued by the Conservative government since 1979 . |
| 11 | ‘ Another thing I admired about young lads like Ken Logan , Gregor Townsend and Peter Wright is that they have the right attitude , a little bit of cockiness . |
| 12 | One reason why some of the most energetic of antislavery activists in the 1830s resorted to the mass public meeting , the public lecture , the organisation of vast petitions and the delegate convention was that they lacked the easy personal access to ministers and administrators which an earlier generation of antislavery leaders possessed . |
| 13 | The measure of Ireland 's forward effort was that they dominated the English pack despite a final lineout count that finished 28-16 in England 's favour . |
| 14 | The only thing wrong with them was that they flew the Northumbrian flag , and not his . |