Example sentences of "[noun sg] be that [adv] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can be useful ; the only thing to bear in mind is that too many icons in here will increase the time taken for Windows to get going , so it 's best to keep Start Up for the real essentials . |
| 2 | The great thing about tea drinking is that so many varieties are available that you can always find a brew that is appropriate to the occasion . |
| 3 | The danger is that too much reliance can be placed on intellectual exercises with resulting works only comprehensible to those studying the same theories . |
| 4 | The legendary American publisher Bill Targ got it right : ‘ The trouble with the publishing business is that too many people who have half a mind to write a book do so . ’ |
| 5 | The point is that normally such parents would prefer that their babies were not defective and would welcome a non-controversial cure were it to become available . |
| 6 | The point is that very few firms now invest large sums of money in a new venture unless they are very sure that there is a demand for it . |
| 7 | The point is that almost any configuration of events with which an individual is likely to be associated in public carries the risk of a worst possible meaning which might reflect unfavourably upon him , and it is a sign of intact mental functioning that one recognises this risk , without of course being incapacitated by the thought , and at the same time that one is equipped to perform repair work if and when infractions occur . |
| 8 | One problem with setting the neck so deep into the body is that relatively little space is left for pickup separation . |
| 9 | Eliot stressed that his own opinion was that once these abstractions had developed in the course of several generations within a civilization they required either renewal or else replacement . |
| 10 | Johnson declared himself in favour of such prescribed succession : ‘ His opinion was that so much land should be entailed as that families should never fall into contempt , and as much left free as to give them all the advantages in case of any emergency . ’ |
| 11 | The second caveat is that even this amount of support is reduced when hypothetical compromises are put to the public . |
| 12 | The other is that so many jobs are likely to need a great deal of capital equipment behind them that there will be a shortage of capital equipment and jobs will therefore not be created quickly enough to maintain full employment . |
| 13 | The trouble is that too many people in the Labour party are more concerned with scaring than with caring . |
| 14 | The trouble was that very few members of the audience at the Theatre Royal , Brighton , understood either what he was saying or why they had spent the money on going to see him in the first place . |
| 15 | But the worst aspect of this whole affair is that so many people do not care about the quality of life for old people . |
| 16 | An example in the past was that too much butter had been produced . |
| 17 | Yet the reality is that very little money spent on science is spent on improving social welfare ; as Rose ( 1986 ) has pointed out , 50 per cent of the government 's science and technology budget in 1981–2 went on military research and development . |
| 18 | The answer is that probably all shapes are capable of supporting a successful but restricted marine community . |
| 19 | The other major lesson was that as much information as it is possible to validate should be validated . |
| 20 | One of the damaging implications of the recession is that very few employers are now able or willing to offer employment to trainees . |
| 21 | Although the electronics industry has changed greatly , possible the greatest change is that very little component level manufacture is done in this country . |
| 22 | One cost is that clearly some services are being cut in terms of how good they are . |
| 23 | The problem is that plainly this depreciation charge can not reflect the periodic benefits expected to accrue from using the vehicle . |
| 24 | Our impression is that almost all contract computer staff are voluntarily working on this basis . |
| 25 | The catch is that only those states which have signed or acceded to the convention by then can take part in any votes . |
| 26 | well I think that , that the , the sending out of the press release immediately was , was quite correct , because obviously people had ride that , sorry people may have read that and something therefore had to be said , my personal view was that really this article is you had , if you like had undone everything that we had been trying to do , erm and put us in a bad light and it maybe my Scottish background , but I do n't like people calling in to question my motives and the companies motives , erm and I felt that it went straight to what we were really standing for , given what I explained about my thoughts in nineteen eighty seven , it was hitting straight to the core of the whole proposition and everything that stood for , erm and that is what was the great concern and because it was n't just like a , a mild slap in the face it was more like a knife in the ribs , it was therefore required a lot more thinking about as to the reaction that we would then have to come up with . |