Example sentences of "[pron] be that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes : and I am that salmon |
| 2 | Branson stood beside Simon Draper , visibly shaking , his face set in a grim mask , ‘ I ca n't tell you , ’ he began , ‘ how sad I am that people have felt the need to have a meeting , without Simon and I being present . |
| 3 | ‘ As certain as I am that Queen Margaret has two tits ! |
| 4 | I am that God to whom you w ill not pray . |
| 5 | A more revolutionary proposal of his was that England players should train together regularly , an idea derived from his visit to Holland , where the national players came together for coaching once a week , and were given lectures and ‘ homework ’ exercises . |
| 6 | All went to plan , until he was delayed by a revolution in Venezuela , the consequences of which were that Stewart missed the replay which Casuals lost 4–1 . |
| 7 | As museums keep asking for more public money , should they not heed public opinion , which is that works of art exist to be seen and should not be stashed away in cellars but should be got up and out and on view ? |
| 8 | Job preferment stigmatises those who do not need help , starts a backlash from whites and reinforces the myth of racial inferiority , the most pernicious effect of which is that blacks have believed it as much as whites . |
| 9 | The Transfer Regulations reverse the common law position which is that persons employed in that business will be redundant unless the vendor has other business in which they can be redeployed . |
| 10 | Finally , the index is intended to remedy one defect of the book , which is that topics , theories and approaches recur at different places as we go along . |
| 11 | But if we look at what we now know to be the case — which is that Saddam Hussein has an enormous war machine , that he was a tremendous threat in the region — how , without going to war , and through the mere sustaining of sanctions , do you reduce that threat ? |
| 12 | Despite their many differences , deep ecology , animal welfare , and anti-cruelty have some fundamental similarities , the most important of which is that individuals are morally expendable — expendable for the deep ecologist as long as the good of the biotic community is sustained or promoted , expendable for the animal welfarist as long as the welfare of others is protected or advanced , and expendable for those who accept the anti-cruelty position , as long as worthy ends are not obtained by means that cause excessive suffering . |
| 13 | My hon. Friend has put his finger on a major advantage of the situation , which is that conservationists and farmers in environmentally sensitive areas are learning to work together . |
| 14 | All this is true , but it entirely misses the point , which is that snorers either drink too much , smoke too much or eat too much . |
| 15 | Ever since the RSPCA established a Working Party to look at the implications of fishing , we have been concerned about one of its conclusions , which is that fish should be given the benefit of the doubt with regard to their ability to experience pain . |
| 16 | I think one can point to another fact which is that Monsieur Mitterand comes from a political party erm which resembles that of his predecessor in being pro-European . |
| 17 | Conservationists ' estimates vary between 3,000 and 4,000 ; but everybody agrees on the most important point , which is that numbers are no longer growing , but shrinking fast . |
| 18 | This arises from the essence of this type of system which is that patients can go anywhere for treatment , and their home authority must pay for such treatment , whether or not it is considered necessary for that particular patient , whether or not that type of treatment figures in the local priorities , and whether or not there are ‘ more deserving ’ cases within the authority . |
| 19 | The chapter 's main focus , however , is the comparative thesis which is that clues to the contours of various modernisms can be found in examining various types of ( disrupted ) bourgeois identities . |
| 20 | Another paper describing the use of bibliometrics in research evaluation is Narin 1987 , but this restricts itself to publication counts and citations , deriving a new indicator , the Top Decile Performance , which is that percent of an Institute 's papers which are amongst the more highly cited 10% of papers in a field . |
| 21 | To conclude I think that we should go along rather than hope sort of an aspect of Conservative philosophy which is that people should be encouraged to earn money and they should be encouraged to save money and that therefore in this case this means proposing this Conservative motion , though I hope they will actually have the common sense to withdraw it . |
| 22 | Some of us are puzzled by this phenomenon , because it seems incompatible with another idea we cherish , which is that people must not be blamed for acts over which they had no control , nor held responsible for unfair gains when they have gained nothing themselves . |
| 23 | This was quickly followed by a spate of bid rumours , the most sensational of which was that Adia , the big Swiss-based recruitment consultant , was about to launch a takeover bid . |
| 24 | ‘ Male Ventriloquism ’ was judged to be good work and discounted by the examiners as probably largely by Roland , which was doubly unjust , since he had refused to look at it , and did not agree with its central proposition , which was that Randolph Henry Ash neither liked nor understood women , that his female speakers were constructs of his own fear and aggression , that even the poem-cycle , Ask to Embla , was the work , not of love but of narcissism , the poet addressing his Anima . |
| 25 | The Doctrine of Signatures became fashionable , the theory of which was that plants which looked like the symptoms of an illness would cure it — lungwort or pulmonaria is a case in point , since it was used for lung conditions , because its white-spotted leaves were thought to bear some resemblance to diseased lungs . |
| 26 | On the one hand I needed to stress the bus driver 's evidence in order to bolster my case , which was that Carella had somehow stumbled on a clue to Moro 's whereabouts . |
| 27 | The ratio will have improved but this is no solution to the original problem which was that banks wanted to expand their business by lending more . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's what you are that matters to me , ’ Alice said impulsively . |
| 29 | Anyway , as soon as they saw me they scampered over and said , ‘ We know you , you 're that Derrick May are n't you ? ' |
| 30 | in which he says that erm the more convinced that she is that it 's going to be fatal in its operation , the more determined apparently she is that Adam shall share . |