Example sentences of "[verb] [be] that [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A main reason for this has been that developments have concentrated on creating ‘ single-purpose ’ areas , for example only office blocks , shopping areas or housing estates rather than a mixture . |
| 2 | The main difficulty has been that teachers allocated to rural schools , especially local district council schools , found themselves virtually without back-up . |
| 3 | The effect of these Standing Committees has been that debates have been of a much more highly focused and objective quality . |
| 4 | One outcome of these severe inequalities , sustained over many years by a small privileged élite , has been that opponents of these regimes have resorted to armed struggle . |
| 5 | A major impetus has been that users found this detailed budgetary accounting confusing . |
| 6 | The problem has been that descriptions of language in general tended to be based on these special cases . |
| 7 | A frequent methodological problem in electrophysiological experiments has been that experimenters have either failed to exercise any control whatever over their subjects ' cognitive strategies or else have relied simply on instructions to subjects to engage in a particular mental activity . |
| 8 | The additional fear has been that properties sold in attractive rural settings may eventually become ‘ second homes ’ for rich urban dwellers . |
| 9 | An actual criticism of the ley theory , as opposed to mental attitude , has been that lines on the plane surface of a map can not accurately represent alignments on the curved surface of the Earth . |
| 10 | My experience has been that entertainers who come for just the show have maximum impact and cause great excitement , especially if they arrive dressed up . |
| 11 | So far , the thrust of the analysis has been that firms are likely to want vertical integration and that , though in many cases it would be socially desirable , in some it may not be . |
| 12 | The underlying philosophy has been that schools require more INSET to be school-focused , linking the enhancement of a teacher 's individual professional skills with the defined needs of the school as a whole ; and further that the capacities of a school staff to evaluate their own strengths and weaknesses must be improved and result directly in more effective forward planning to remedy recognized weaknesses . |
| 13 | Their strength has been that recruits came to them already vetted and character-tested through membership of a church or Orange lodge . |
| 14 | The prospect has been that atoms cooled to microkelvin temperatures , with an arrangement called an atomic fountain , would allow orders-of-magnitude improvements in frequency standards . |
| 15 | The BMA working party refers to ‘ alternative medicine ’ — misleading terminology since the medical establishment 's greatest fear in the past has been that therapists would influence patients to treat it as just that and reject orthodox medicine . |
| 16 | In British social anthropology , the implicit assumption has been that humans are violent , and that society in various ways controls and constrains . |
| 17 | The result of all this has been that proponents in the press of the fashionable pro-government doctrine of ‘ new realism ’ have somehow found themselves spending most of their time constructing and then reporting on a fantasy world . |
| 18 | What is equally worth noticing is that Antisthenes of Rhodes was one of the historians Polybius disliked and attacked . |
| 19 | What matters is that Ministers should be ready and willing to come to the House of Commons when expected to do so in order to answer questions from elected representatives on matters of genuine public interest and importance . |
| 20 | Consequently , the offenders are not important ; what matters is that opportunities must be reduced and risks increased and this requires that attention be given to the situations in which offences may occur . |
| 21 | What is happening is that women have shown their competence in practice and this has helped to change machista attitudes . |
| 22 | One fact which people often forget is that horses which have passed the acute clinically ill stage of the disease will still remain infectious for up to six weeks or possibly even longer . |
| 23 | ‘ All I do know is that others who approached me were warned off . |
| 24 | The implicit claim to be considered is that apes are , qualitatively speaking , a quantum jump ahead of other animals in this respect ( although admittedly not many others have been investigated ) : that they are ‘ on our side of the divide ’ . |
| 25 | And what happens is that females , females have pouches that produce eggs but they only hold a small , they only hold a small volume . |
| 26 | Briefly , what happens is that chapters 1 and 2 of Book III take Aragorn , Legolas and Gimli from the 26th to the 28th February ; chapters 3 and 4 lead Pippin and Merry from the 26th February to the 2nd March ; chapters 5–7 return to Aragorn and his companions and ‘ leapfrog ’ them past Merry and Pippin again to the 4th March ; while in chapter 8 these two sub-groups of the fellowship meet again on the 5th , for Merry and Pippin to bring their story up-to-date again in recounted narrative . |
| 27 | So , what probably happens is that women at the bottom of the social heap in the United States , having poor health care , high stressed lives , crime , drugs and all these kind of problems , probably have more spontaneous abortions , therefore the sex ratio away from males towards females , whereas women at the top of the social scale , low stress lives , good health care , better maternity erm medicine , stuff like that , retain more foetuses , therefore you 'd expect them to have more males , and this is what seems to happen . |
| 28 | What happens is that negotiations take place . |
| 29 | Another factor which makes the extract easier to process if ( 2c ) is selected is that sentences ( 2c ) and ( 3 ) both start with an element that has already been established before presenting new information . |
| 30 | ‘ What the documents conclusively reveal is that ministers asked the civil service to cost the Labour review using figures and interpretations provided by the Conservative Party . |