Example sentences of "[verb] [be] that [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether the party in office has been Conservative or Labour , the first consideration has been that Ulster policies must never injure electoral prospects . |
| 2 | The Government 's official position , dictated by the Prime Minister , has been that Britain will join the ERM when ‘ the time is ripe ’ . |
| 3 | The consensus among observers has been that IBM Corp will find it needs to cut many more than the 25,000 positions it is targeting for this year , so there was little surprise when both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal last week came out with independent stories saying the cuts would go much higher . |
| 4 | The only positive news has been that America 's Digital Equipment has raised its stake in Olivetti ahead of schedule , taking it to almost 10% . |
| 5 | The lesson since Bismarck has been that France can not compete politically , militarily or economically with a united Germany . |
| 6 | The principal counter-argument has been that Essex has enjoyed the benefit of a former tutor-organiser as Federation chairman and that , in the absence of an equivalent person to give a lead elsewhere , tutor-organisers have continued to be essential . |
| 7 | Within this tradition , the argument has been that Simmel 's The Philosophy of Money provides an important critique of alienation , which , unfortunately , the author perceived as a condition of modernity itself instead of a specific attribute of capitalism ; but , once his philosophy is directed back to its proper object , there is much to be learnt from his examples . |
| 8 | What matters is that Polybius found in Rome people who would not differ from educated Greeks in their interests , ideas and emotional reactions . |
| 9 | One more piece of information you should possess before the tale unfolds is that Michael was encased in two leg callipers as a result of polio — contracted when one year old — and walked , or rather surges about with the aid of two crutches . |
| 10 | What might be forgotten is that Land had spent years in the laboratory perfecting the polarization process , schooling his scientific and inventive abilities , practising and repeating , learning his craft . |
| 11 | What seems to be happening is that Valerie is adopting a " Jamaican " persona in which irritation may be shown more freely ( but also , perhaps , less threateningly ) to a person 's face . |
| 12 | What he does n't seem to know is that Albie had been talking to Carmichael . |
| 13 | What we do know is that Lloyd George , despite his public stance of support for the National Government , thought , in private , that it had been a mistake for the Liberals to join it . |
| 14 | The origins of HIV are uncertain yet one thing we do know is that HIV has the potential to affect everybody worldwide . |
| 15 | What we and Holyfield do know is that Bowe offers a safer route , if not to heavyweight immortality then to respectful acceptance by his peers for his efforts inside the ring , in line with the respect his quiet dignity commands outside it . |
| 16 | But the last thing she had expected was that John would take advantage of it , especially after so long an absence from her , and even more especially after the crisis they had endured and survived together these months past . |
| 17 | What it did not want the public to know was that Blake had been authorised to do shady deals with Russian intelligence , including the betrayal of MI6 agents in East Germany , and the whole plan had backfired because he was a spy already . |
| 18 | What Mickey did not know was that Mrs Moon was so concerned about the loss of her pension book that she had offered £1,000,000 to anyone who found it ! |
| 19 | What Geraci still did n't know was that Zen had no recent operational experience in Rome or anywhere else . |
| 20 | What he did n't know was that Myeloski wanted to share his knowledge with the Englishman . |
| 21 | What I did know was that Shadwell was involved . |
| 22 | What I did not know was that Vivien Eliot was in the audience . |
| 23 | What outsiders did n't know was that Bowyer 's remarks had been based on his own fruitless attempts to sign a big name Catholic — Jim McFadden of Cliftonville . |
| 24 | She did n't know but what she did know was that Fernando would n't do anything to hurt anyone … only herself , as he had threatened when she had first arrived here at the lovely Casa Pinar . |
| 25 | What she did not know was that Freddie had two children by his other woman . |
| 26 | What she did not know was that Moran , with his good looks and military fame , had once been king of these barn dances and now that he had neither youth nor fame would not take a lesser place . |
| 27 | One thing William did know was that Uncle Titch had once worked in a circus . |
| 28 | What he did know was that Joe liked to be surrounded by young men . |
| 29 | What actually happens is that Carol answers her own question — in London English , with " don " remember when it was " . |
| 30 | What Pausanias actually says is that Hegetorides , the xenos in question , ‘ is bound to me by closer ties of friendship than anyone else in that part of the world ’ . |