Example sentences of "be [adv] that [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not quite clear what he meant by this ; the point may well be not that the new kings — Eardwulf in Northumbria , and Coenwulf in Mercia — were of non-royal stock but that they were not of the lineage , respectively , of Aethelred and Offa — but it could easily be construed as a slur . |
| 2 | Perhaps it is right that the official institutions of a community should express moral judgements on behalf of its law-abiding members — but why should it have to take form of punishment ? |
| 3 | So the really important thing that has happened is not that the official forecasts have been wrong , it is that the New Consensus , having been tried in the balance since we joined the ERM and , indeed , during the past 12 years as a whole , has been found wanting . |
| 4 | The point of all this is not that the entire women 's liberation movement should support the Wages for Housework demand ( as at present formulated ) — a pretty remote possibility — but that it should recognise — as WfH does — the importance of feminism 's attitude to housewives . |
| 5 | The problem of recruitment administration is not that the individual tasks are difficult , but that the addition of fluctuations in the level of activity makes them difficult . |
| 6 | The point is not that the theological pronouncements of scientists are to be discounted but rather that they do sometimes have to be seen as efforts at mediation . |
| 7 | It 's just that the new terminologies and notations offer extra insight and clarity of expression and enable more powerful methods to be developed . |
| 8 | It 's just that the standard methods of triangulation and trigonometrical calculation take so much more manpower and time and are only possible with the advent of modern mathematics and the invention of the decimal point and zero , which the circle markers did not have . |
| 9 | It is here that the sacred mysteries of Osiris 's resurrection were celebrated . |
| 10 | It is here that the various valves , heaters etc. , comprising the Wolverton system of steam heating are manufactured , and all the stock of the Company is rapidly being fitted with this patent arrangement . |
| 11 | Bordered by desert , the Mediterranean and the Red Sea , this densely populated country is concentrated along the Nile , away from the blistering heat of the hinterland , and it is here that the great monuments to the country 's past civilisation lie . |
| 12 | It is here that the dauntless cavalrymen of Ellyrion rest when they return from their long sweeps through their embattled land . |
| 13 | It is simply that the necessary distinctions are not to be found at the level of categorical separation but rather at the level where they are in fact produced , which is that of both general and specific cultural and social orders . |
| 14 | It was now that the true landlords , the Church and the nobility , sought to assert their half-forgotten rights of eviction and rent-raising in order to trap some of the profits from rising land values . |
| 15 | In part , of course , the problem was simply that the Soviet archives were inaccessible to western scholars , while during the Stalin era the documents and memoirs published in the Soviet Union were sparse and manifestly tendentious . |
| 16 | It was here that the great receptions and gala balls took place , though it was not the setting for the traditional New Year 's ambassadorial reception as described by Hubner , which was that of the Throne part played by the Empress , since this was her first appearance at such a function and it thus enables us to observe her on an occasion of high formality : |
| 17 | It was here that the subtle changes to the royal itinerary were made and Diana was shouldered out . |
| 18 | It was then that the frozen fighters noticed that there was something else in the pile of wood . |
| 19 | It was then that the electromagnetic forces became important , as they governed and determined the chemical compounds on Earth and the way they reacted with other elements . |