Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [adv] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These tend to provide an excuse for putting off coaching and this is why some organizations are now insisting that coaching is built into the management role more formally . |
| 2 | However , the companies were reportedly assured that UI 's 1993 programme would continue , along with its input on requirements , early access , licensing and conformance and its work in promoting and marketing Unix . |
| 3 | As many of their domestic loans were backed by property , the banks were also betting that Japan 's land bubble would not burst . |
| 4 | Words like " some " in examination questions are there to show that examiners do n't think exhaustive answers are possible ; any response will be partial . |
| 5 | Although some of its own experiments were now showing that air pollution in southern England damaged leaves and made them fall early from trees , it could not bring itself to say as much . |
| 6 | In the course of an item on The Late Show , viewers were confidently told that Sean 's Show is ‘ the first postmodernist sitcom ’ , that it goes out on Thursdays , and that it 's a Channel 4 programme . |
| 7 | By the end of the 1970S the additions to the housing stock had been so considerable that arguments were increasingly heard that Britain had enough houses . |
| 8 | Many teachers are now persuaded that English lessons should not be solely confined to ‘ great ’ literature , but should include all kinds of ‘ texts ’ , spoken and written , together with popular forms such as television commercials , bestsellers and comics ; |
| 9 | Interestingly , scientists are now saying that odour is different in degree to memory rather than different in kind . |
| 10 | While they chased the business of a few gambling councils , some City lawyers were already arguing that councils could enter into swaps only to hedge interest-rate payments on normal borrowings . |
| 11 | Labour 's suspicions were immediately aroused that Asquith 's speech at the National Liberal Club was part of an ‘ Establishment ’ plot to deny Labour fair play , and that a Labour government defeated in the Commons would be denied the right which other governments had enjoyed , of an immediate dissolution . |
| 12 | The selectors have long refused to hear a strident case for Carlisle Best , and locals were also miffed that Desmond Haynes was overlooked for the West Indies captaincy . |
| 13 | But the graduates are already finding that publicity stunts are n't that easy , picking grapes in a gown and mortar board does have it 's problems . |
| 14 | Some men were already saying that Artai 's election was ill-starred . |
| 15 | Their immune systems are so damaged that colds and bugs which normally take a few days to clear can take weeks or months . |
| 16 | Gramsci is therefore arguing that class cleavages can and do take spatial forms , such as urban capitalist middle-class versus rural semi-feudal peasantry . |
| 17 | Some Tory MPs are also hoping that Chancellor Kenneth Clarke will decide to limit the VAT levy to just 8pc and ditch the second stage rise to 17.5pc . |
| 18 | The TECs ' chairmen are already warning that budget cuts are forcing them to concentrate on alleviating the worst excesses of the training shortage , rather than on instigating innovative schemes . |