Example sentences of "that it [be] a [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He says that it 's a better craft than those in which he trained .
2 Treatment is refused on the basis that it 's a better use of resources to spend them on the young .
3 Now , in addition to that , and I do n't know if this is the source of the confusion , we 've also made provision in the ninety four five budget for another er camera site operation , except that it 's a lower figure because that does n't actually include the camera because we made it clear that as a result of the decision last time here we did n't want to create a , a permanent precedent that this committee always picked up the bill for the camera .
4 With Genesis , one thing that makes it a lot of fun is that it 's a smaller group .
5 Most commentators agree that it is a higher hurdle to clear .
6 I feel sure that it is a better Bill than when it started .
7 It was argued that it allows litigation which would otherwise not be brought , that the lawyers involved act more conscientiously on behalf of their client because of the mutual financial interests , and that it is a simpler method of payment .
8 THE commonly-cited reason for opposing a charge for driving on particular urban roads is that it is a further restriction on those who have sufficient constraints already , what with parking meters , wheel-clamping and towing-away .
9 Somebody said that it was a colder day than any we had morning I read Houghton 's Life of Keats and copied out some passages from Keats ' letters .
10 However specialist nurses were provided in certain districts and there was a feeling that it was a better system .
11 ‘ Ah , there you — ’ one of them began , before he took in the fact that it was a stranger standing in front of him , rather than the third scientist .
12 We started from the car park just outside Charmouth and were warned by the parking attendant that it was a harder walk than many thought .
13 Luke , even though his order of material is basically the same as Mark , tries to give the impression that it was a longer period of time ( see Luke 19:47 ; 20:1 ; 21:38 ; 22:1 , 7 ) .
14 Mr Ridley 's ‘ mindedness ’ to allow Foxley Wood depended on his view that it was a sounder way of ensuring Hampshire 's share of new housing in the South-east than the county 's own thinking , which assumed finding dozens of smaller sites .
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