Example sentences of "[be] [that] [prep] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not always possible to say precisely which kind of eyes these are pretending to be , but the chances are that in most cases they are mimicking the forward-facing eyes of birds of prey . |
| 2 | Modem linkage for Dawyck will be needed within the next five years , and it may be that at that point we could decide to install a multiplexor to deal with all of our external computer links — use of local EUCS services , JANET , PSS , Royline and others . |
| 3 | It may be that at this time he was retained also by Simon of Montfort , Earl of Leicester [ q.v. ] , who had awarded him a money fee before 1245 . |
| 4 | The fact seems to be that in such cases it is inappropriate to think in terms of discrete variation . |
| 5 | The other is that for some reason you 've been too scared to let anyone close enough . ’ |
| 6 | A slow retrieve , occasionally stopping to allow the bait to sink back to depth , then speeding up to run the bait to the surface working the bait as a lure or wobbled bait would be , the difference is that on this occasion you could be doing it at 150 yards from the bank and an area never covered by bankside wobblers . |
| 7 | The reason I am interested is that at that time I was off work for six months and I suspected I had the illness . |
| 8 | Presumably what he means is that at that point they will have lost their representative character and become embodiments of the divine . |
| 9 | The likelihood is that at that point you will then turn into what the young term a boring old fart and that transition from enfant terrible to boring old fart is immediate at the age of sixty . |
| 10 | All I remember is that at one point he walked along with one foot on the kerb and the other in the gutter and was told off for limping . |
| 11 | The reason is that at slow speeds it moves both legs on the same side of the body forward at the same time , first one side and then the other . |
| 12 | If you plan to stay where you are , the likelihood is that at some point you will want to make some changes or improvements : install central heating , insulate the loft , modernise the kitchen or perhaps convert part of the house to a granny flat for an elderly parent who is becoming too frail to live alone . |
| 13 | The truth is that in European affairs it would be difficult to diminish further the power of this Parliament . |
| 14 | A further possibility which is suggested by Lord Denning 's judgment is that in such circumstances it may not be a case for injunction but only for damages . |
| 15 | He has to watch his step very carefully vis-à-vis the Russians but my guess is that in this instance they went too far . |
| 16 | The point I want to make is that in most cases they could not . |
| 17 | The reality is that in most cases it is hard to prove the cheque was issued ‘ knowingly ’ . |
| 18 | The major difficulty with them is that in most contexts it is not in general possible on theoretical grounds alone to exclude the influence of one variable on another . |
| 19 | The condemnation of the figures that the hon. Gentleman has read out is that in those boroughs we need never have had so many liability orders or so many people taken to the courts or threatened with prison if they had not been misled by Labour Members of Parliament and councillors into running up enormous debts . |
| 20 | The peaks also correlate with high NO 2 values , so our assumption is that in these episodes we are measuring lower-latitude air as the denitrified polar vortex moves away from the site under the influence of planetary wave activity , as has been demonstrated with previous NO 2 data . |
| 21 | How many hundreds or thousands of those gallons were tipped into the saucepans the report does not reveal , but certain it is that in these days it is not at all uncommon to find dishes of chicken , langouste or lobster flambé au whisky on the menus of French provincial and Parisian restaurants . |
| 22 | In the court case of June 1790 , Henry Cecil was awarded £1000 damages and a divorce , but what makes the whole story so remarkable is that by this time he was already secretly remarried . |
| 23 | Labour 's simple , single theme is that after 13 years it is time for a change . |
| 24 | Thus it was that on 3 January she decided to mark the occasion by letting go of another gasket , this time in one of her auxiliary purification circuits . |
| 25 | The fact was that for many years she and her father had been living with a dangerous illusion ; and the illusion was that they were entirely virtuous in their endeavours , entirely on the angels ' side . |
| 26 | What happened was that after each death she would go through a process of remembering the scenes of illness and death . |
| 27 | From the king 's standpoint , the vital consequence was that in each county he had a loyal cadre of men whose services and renders he could call on directly when he chose . |
| 28 | Hence it was that in many subjects he was behind the knowledge of the day . |
| 29 | The irony was that in normal circumstances she would have insisted on seeing a working installation of a new product if only to satisfy herself that whatever she wrote would n't infringe the Trades Descriptions Act . |