Example sentences of "[pron] [be] that [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's what you are that matters to me , ’ Alice said impulsively . |
| 13 | can promise you is that commissions awarded on basis of competition , we were looking for quality , we invited bids , we |
| 14 | One is that players will tend to chip the ball more as the tackler moves in . |
| 15 | One is that policies which are focused primarily on small firms are likely to encourage only a relatively low level of technical innovation . |
| 16 | One is that descendants of the marginal stock enter into competition with the parental stock in a third area of colonization . |
| 17 | One is that personnel officers , themselves often educated at universities , are simply prejudiced against the polys ; another , which can be supported by reference to A-level qualifications , is that universities recruit a superior class of student . |
| 18 | One is that differences in accounting methods between countries mean that p/es are misleading , because earnings are measured in different ways . |
| 19 | One is that women 's fear of rape by a stranger is inborn ; another is that crime reporting tends to focus on violent crime , particularly against women . ’ |
| 20 | The main one is that investors who wish to make regular subscriptions for a period of years will need only to complete one initial application form . |
| 21 | [ … ] One is that firms with market power will maximize their profits by charging prices in excess of marginal costs . |
| 22 | One is that animals memorize local landmarks and directions on their way out , and simply reverse the directions to find their way home ; a second is that the home site itself has some property that can be recognized at a distance . |
| 23 | One was that patrimonies were not large enough to maintain several brothers in the style to which they were accustomed : perhaps because the survival of several brothers was becoming more common at this social level , noble younger brothers often had to seek their fortunes far afield , whether in an ecclesiastical or in a secular career . |
| 24 | The problem there is that users that do adopt OS/2 2.0 whole heartedly run the risk of finding themselves in the same fate of neglection that 8100 users suffered after the first glow of perceived success began to fade . |
| 25 | It 's absurd really to say that because of automation there is less and less work when you see how much there is that needs doing in the community . |
| 26 | Erm but the point there is that restraints were observed . |
| 27 | The problem there is that graduates are so terribly boring and uninteresting people basically are n't they that they find it difficult to impart their er |
| 28 | Unfortunately , I said the longer he chose to ignore me and others who were trying to find out what was making him so unhappy , the more chance there was that decisions about his future might be made regardless of his willingness to discuss his situation . |
| 29 | They were that girls thought 16 was the right age to lose their virginity and that 75 per cent of them admitted to saying yes to sex when they really wanted to say no . |
| 30 | ‘ I asked him was that pounds or dollars and he said dollars , so I said sure that 's not so bad and offered him £5 off the price of a new sweater . |