Example sentences of "be [that] [verb] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then there is that warmed red billiard ball with its skin slit round the middle , so oddly known as a grilled tomato . |
| 2 | Another boost for the tourists is that lineout ace John Eales is on the mend and could even creep into Saturday 's Test . |
| 3 | It is not at all easy to see what it is that makes one thing tough and another brittle because the substances in each of these lists seem to have little enough in common . |
| 4 | Williams argues that the utilitarian , given his empirical approach , should recognize this fact and be prepared to investigate what it is that gives these people happiness . |
| 5 | The problem for the Labour Party , of course , was that playing this propaganda card was always likely to backfire since its natural constituency should have been the very groups it was attacking . |