Example sentences of "be [that] [pron] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The busmen 's case had been that their strict schedules made the satisfactory operation of physical functions difficult . |
| 2 | Clara had actually heard one constant church attender , caught out donating a small charitable sum to the Vicar , defend herself to Mrs Maugham by saying that she had n't really meant to give it , and that she never would have given it if it had n't been that her little boy had just given up Sunday school . |
| 3 | Historically one important assumption has been that our ordinary lives serve the interests of the powers that be . |
| 4 | More female science students ( sixteen of the twenty-four ) had attended single-sex schools than any other group in the sample ; it may be that their single-sex schooling had been a major influence in their decision to study science at degree level . |
| 5 | It may well be that his nocturnal anxieties began on hearing the nightly ministrations by which his father was nursed — to a young boy , eerie and mysterious , doubtless at times frenetic ; no doubt they were exacerbated after his death , as sorrow and loss impinged . |
| 6 | Can it be that our hot-headed guests want to burn the museums in order to destroy the evidence ? ’ |
| 7 | The one factor that still tilts general election predictions in the Tories ' favour is that their hillcrest position seems ultimately impregnable . |
| 8 | The problem with any efficiency drive in government is that what some people regard as a mere means to an end , others regard as an end in itself . |
| 9 | But his shadow , Mr Gerald Kaufman , said : ‘ The fact is that what this Government has adopted is the policy of the three o'clock knock by police . ’ |
| 10 | The movie 's dilemma is that its luxurious pace ambles all over the shop , never really getting anywhere or bringing any of the characters to a satisfying conclusion . |
| 11 | The main advantage of Energy and the environment is that its rapid publication means that the information presented is as up to date as is possible in a book . |
| 12 | In the book the strength of the climax is that his moral attitudes make it necessary for him to reach the girl before she becomes the wife of someone else , which he does . |
| 13 | One problem with the Lucas study , recognized by Lucas ( 1973 , p.331 ) , is that his 18 countries fall into two distinct groups . |
| 14 | If he did , the probability is that his genetic inheritance played its part somewhere along the line . |
| 15 | One reason for this is that our metabolic rate slows down as we age . |
| 16 | My belief is that our good practice has evolved over a period of more than 50 years and that it has developed in classrooms through the dedicated expertise of British teachers enjoying the relative freedom traditionally allowed within our education system . |
| 17 | ‘ The sensible conclusion is that our secret assassin decided to remove the danger just in case . ’ |
| 18 | The only possible excuse for her behaviour is that my temporary excision has gone to her head . |
| 19 | The sole conclusion I feel able to draw is that your young lady had been a child prostitute . ’ |
| 20 | The pity is that your Welsh code does not run here in England , where the offence was committed . |
| 21 | As the weeks progressed , the only thing which troubled her was that her new friends had seen so much more of the world than she had . |
| 22 | What Emerson demonstrated was that her younger children had difficulty in using the causal connective as a clue to the temporal order of the events described . |
| 23 | All that happened was that her sexual needs became painful instead of grumbling and Alexander became unreal in her mind in a bad way . |
| 24 | The key problem with the instrument was that its financial features responded to changing circumstances by increasing funding risk rather than reducing it . |
| 25 | It was unfit even for grazing purposes and its main function in human terms was that its near edges provided a useful if unofficial dumping ground for anything and everything . |
| 26 | Most of the equipment is stored in the boot and the problem I now faced was that my new car had a smaller , different shaped boot . |
| 27 | The most Mr Simpson would concede — with the greatest reluctance and sounding scandalised at the impropriety of the question — was that his late client had been in receipt of a private income from a family trust . |
| 28 | The result was that his daily arrangements became hopelessly dislocated . |
| 29 | The fact was that his own heart had grown irresistibly fond of the love of his life , Senora Isabel-Maria Estanguet de Moss , whose husband had just been posted to the Argentinian Embassy in Brussels . |