Example sentences of "be [pron] that [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It should have been something that the Royal Shakespeare did and not Tennents trying to turn it into a West End night out . ’
2 Second , given the availability of a trained and skilled operator there is nothing that a good desktop publishing system can not achieve in monochrome or spot colour publishing that was not possible by traditional methods .
3 Especially their new record , which is everything that a modern rock CD should be .
4 Technological change is something that the personal computer industry is only too familiar with ; buy the latest home computer this week and it 's likely to be out of date within six months !
5 This is something that the Anglo-American Phyllis Bottome , writing in England in wartime , finds hard to accept :
6 This is something that the British harp on that incessantly , using it as the main reason for choosing one restaurant over another , but do we really understand what it means and are we consistent in our assessment of perceived value ?
7 One feature of English verse that is scanted by this method , or can be acknowledged only incidentally , is one that every careful reader knows from his or her experience : tempo , the speeding up or slowing down of enunciation , and therefore of apprehension , as we read through a line or through several lines in sequence .
8 Well , my feeling is , and it 's really the same message that you get from most greens and most environment books , is that under-consumption , that is poverty in the poor countries , is linked to over-consumption in the rich countries , and we have to grasp this nettle — it 's one that the Conservative Party in its White Paper on the environment avoids noticeably — we have to grasp the nettle , that as long as we are over-consuming there 's not going to be enough to go round everywhere , and my book shows that this pattern is really a three hundred year old pattern dating from the first Colonial expansion of Europe and the slave trade , and it 's still going on today .
9 To put all the above into context , and that 's something that no published review is ever likely to achieve , require a detailed understanding of what methods are currently being used to produce documents .
10 And so the media are constantly giving the impression that there 's something that the British government should be doing .
11 But it needs to be borne in mind , before we embark on the various ways of doing this , that it is by no means a universally accepted need nor is it that every bereaved person with whom we come in contact will need ‘ help ’ .
12 Why is it that a specific person has the indefinable ‘ It ’ and another has not ?
13 How much more likely is it that a professional boxer , for example , would suffer permanent bodily damage , than a kidney donor ?
14 How is it that a large cavern with a high roof may be formed underground ?
15 Michael Land of Sussex University , our foremost authority on invertebrate eyes , is worried , and so am I. Is it that the necessary mutations can not arise , given the way Nautilus embryos develop ?
16 Why is it that the psychic gifts often cause apprehension and even fear ?
17 ‘ What is it that the Roman poet Catullus said ?
18 Or is it that the working class has shrunk to a level which means it can never put Labour into power ?
19 Why is it that the black sheep of the family is often the most likeable .
20 How likely is it that the other staff would volunteer information , especially about practices in which they themselves might have been involved ?
21 If all those taxes have been abolished since 1979 , why is it that the average family , starting out in 1979 with a debt of 45 per cent .
22 Is it that the overall proportion of Management to staff is too high so the balance is being put right ?
23 Why is it that the simple act of purchasing something can often be hell ?
24 Or is it that the sudden perception of one 's own constant vulnerability provides , in its black , clouded way , a dazzling , near-religious feeling of revelation — this is how things really are ; that to be born is , by definition , to be a victim ?
25 When eating out , why is it that the next table 's conversation is often so much more fascinating and intriguing ?
26 Is it that the human being is secretly nothing without others ?
27 Far from being a new threat , evolutionism was something that the conservative forces had been battling with for several decades .
28 Lord Justice McCowan said he found it quite impossible to hold that Mr Hurd 's political judgment — that the appearance of terrorists on programmes increased their standing and lent them political legitimacy — was one that no reasonable home secretary could make .
29 Lord Justice McCowan said it was impossible to hold that the Home Secretary 's political judgment was one that no reasonable Home Secretary could hold .
30 Why was it that every single time she did one little thing that was the least bit out of line she got caught at it ?
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