Example sentences of "[verb] [be] that [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result has been that sales of diesel cars in Britain last year reached a record 139,810 , or 8.8 per cent of a smaller total market , compared with 128,167 ( 6.38 per cent ) in 1990 . |
| 2 | There are a number of , sort of a dictionary of useful phrases , I mean you actually used one or two just now , and one of the things that we suggest is that people when they 're not under the pressure of being in the studio , which after all for them is alien territory , that they should actually have one or two of these useful phrases which do cover a , a multitude of embarrassing situations , if you want to put it that away . |
| 3 | What matters is that people should have somewhere to live . |
| 4 | The Unionist MP Ken Maginnis , a former UDR member , said : ‘ What I hope is not happening is that people who — as I would have had in my time — had montages for lawful and necessary purposes will be made scapegoats . ’ |
| 5 | A lot of the times what is really happening is that people are being put into artificial jobs . |
| 6 | Our assessment has always been , and continues to be , of a very … complex kind , because what is happening is that people are getting feedback from us all by working with us . |
| 7 | WHAT I do know is that people like Havel have been getting a little impatient with those relishing pieces appearing lately in the American press that say , roughly : ‘ Right , you guys over there have had your romantic Ruritanian fun and games with revolution and dancing in the streets . |
| 8 | What Honey and Munnford found is that people learn in basically four ways , the first of which is is the activist . |
| 9 | Little did we know that G P T did n't actually write the software properly , and what was happening was that people writing new numbers in were knocking out the old numbers , alright ? |
| 10 | Now what that does of course is close off the centre line and what found was that people who were positive communicators as they spoke to somebody they presented the centre line to them . |
| 11 | Sugar , in his sworn statement , said : ‘ Venables said what usually happens is that people would meet Clough in a motorway cafe somewhere , and that Clough would be handed a bag of money . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ He said what usually happens is that people would meet Clough in a motorway cafe somewhere , and that Clough would be handed a bag of money , ’ said Sugar . |
| 13 | The next thing to remember is that fish are live animals and you are not allowed to take them in the cabin of the aircraft . |
| 14 | The most simple reason for something being buried is that people have buried it , and domestic waste is probably the most common example of deliberate burial . |
| 15 | ‘ He told me that what actually happened was that people would meet Mr Clough in a motorway service station and that Mr Clough would be handed a bag of money . |
| 16 | There used to be er a fish shop and er that used to be called 's that fish shop did . |
| 17 | When Tessas were first launched , an immediate objection raised was that people would simply shift money from one pocket to another . |
| 18 | ‘ What we 've found is that sales , at a minimum , are double . |
| 19 | But nonetheless the literal translation I understand is that people who are Dutch citizens in this country should contact the er ambassador at thirty eight Hyde Park Gate and seek the relevant forms in order to register for the election and vote in the U K and I hope our friends er in in the Binnenhoff have taken that a little more seriously than appears to have been the case in in the Home Office . |
| 20 | What will happen is that staff will go behind the bike sheds . ’ |
| 21 | But what does happen is that people are directed away from blighted homes we know that that happens , it happens all the time , as soon as a home 's name is mentioned social workers , quite honourably believe that there 's no sense in putting down people 's names , no no sense in sending people there and you would expect nothing different from them so it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy . |
| 22 | This is not to say that man can mine coal where it does not occur geologically , or that some settlements do not originate because of the existence of some material which the inhabitants extract ; what it does mean is that people themselves determine what is exploited and how they deal with the extraction . |
| 23 | So the point I 'm making is that offspring will be prepared to make sacrifices under those conditions , where erm , the R is greater than C. But parents will want offspring to make sacrifices , wherever B is greater than C , and the parent is not concerned with the discount parameter R , but agreed on relatedness , because parents are equally related through their offspring . |
| 24 | What they did not foresee was that people got the impression they were going to be crushed or trampled underfoot and , though the 30,000 portions of pie were eaten , many people opted to stay away . |
| 25 | this the , what makes me laugh is that people 's intelligence , they walk along a street shopping and as soon as they walk into a restaurant they sit down and start smoking |
| 26 | One of the major problems that presentation graphics has faced is that 35mm slides cost a lot of money . |
| 27 | One of the big problems about erm teaching people what Darwin really said is that people 's concept of evolution by natural selection is er contaminated by ideas which were actually originated , not by Darwin , but by the founder of British sociology , Herbert Spencer , whose dates were nineteen twenty to nineteen O three . |
| 28 | ‘ I do n't really think we can necessarily say that it must be vitamin E that is a protective factor , but what we can now say is that fruit and vegetables seem to protect against heart disease , ’ says Professor James . |
| 29 | All I can say is that people who hear my voice keep saying do n't you sound like Pam Ayres . |
| 30 | What this is taken to mean is that people find it easier to interpret and take in pictures than words . |