Example sentences of "[be] that [noun prp] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Michael Stich has definitely told us he will play and all the indications are that Boris will do so this time as well ’ said Mr Meyer-Wolden , who spent several hours on a flight back from Australia earlier in the year , putting Becker in the picture of a wide range of his views , ideas and objectives . |
| 2 | At the time of writing , the status of Andorra and San Marino remains uncertain , but the latest indications are that Andorra will be excluded while San Marino will be included . |
| 3 | But the chances are that Mansell will be racing alongside Frenchman Alain Prost next year . |
| 4 | The chances are that Britain will have to find a new place to dump waste by the end of the decade . |
| 5 | Twenty six years on the chances are that Britain could , once again , be thought of as potential medal prospects . |
| 6 | So the chances are that Clinton will be chosen to face Bush on November 3 . |
| 7 | The chances are that Oxford WILL have to roll out the red carpet the next time Mr Clinton comes to town . |
| 8 | My own feelings are that Microsoft will win the war with Windows NT , and that IBM will keep a sizable core of committed users for OS/2 . |
| 9 | The likely terms of the split are that Solvay will take over sole ownership of Interox , the price being Laporte 's takeover of the organics and persulphates and cancellation or sale of most of Solvay 's shareholding in Laporte . |
| 10 | Now that Unix System Labs has finally cut a deal for OSF 's Distributed Computing Environment , albeit through Siemens-Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG ( UX No 384 ) , hopes are that X/Open may find light at the end of that particular tunnel too . |
| 11 | The lesson since Bismarck has been that France can not compete politically , militarily or economically with a united Germany . |
| 12 | Her worst fear had been that Jake would show up before they had even left Lomond View . |
| 13 | The Government 's official position , dictated by the Prime Minister , has been that Britain will join the ERM when ‘ the time is ripe ’ . |
| 14 | After Janey went back to Billy , Kevin had patched up his differences with his wife , Enid , but one of the conditions had been that Kevin would sponsor polo instead of show jumping to avoid bumping into Janey on the circuit , and because their daughter , Tracey , would meet a nicer class of young man in polo . |
| 15 | The fear must be that Clinton might unpick some of the deals , such as the one on agriculture , but this was thought to be unlikely , given his commitment to moving out of recession . |
| 16 | Opinion in Texas prison circles , with hindsight , seems to be that TDC should simply have admitted that various provisions for prisoners were unsatisfactory and inadequate . |
| 17 | How can it be that Jesus could become sin for you and me ? |
| 18 | Sentence ( 2 ) leaves us in mid-air , guessing what the " thing " may be that Pemberton would like to hear " ; ( 3 ) provides the answer , but only in part . |
| 19 | ‘ I think the attitude will be that Stuttgart will only get through over our dead bodies . |
| 20 | The rational view after yesterday 's announcement must be that Charles will never become King . |
| 21 | It may be that Isambard will let him go for a price . |
| 22 | The division of work would be that Scott would have ‘ ( subject to its conformity with internal arrangements ) the general command of the external design , and Wyatt would have ‘ the more especial direction of the interior ’ , except that they should work jointly on certain interiors ‘ of a more public nature such as public halls staircases corridors and what may be called the state apartments ’ . |
| 23 | In that scenario , the provisional supposition would be that Morgan would take over at the helm from Ian McGeechan , with David Johnston and Richie Dixon as his assistant coaches . |
| 24 | All reports I 'd heard were that Sterland would be fit by now . |
| 25 | If only two hundred were to be seen , then the chances were that Balliol would assume that this was their full strength . |
| 26 | Our proposals were that SERPS should be abolished and that the second pension should come from a variety of new options in the private sector which we would make available . |
| 27 | He thinks that he wants a reconciliation , and up to a point he does ; but what he hopes most of all is that Alfred will give his blessing to the new play he has written — a drama of sibling rivalry called Brother Mine . |
| 28 | What seems more likely is that Basquiat could be the beneficiary of a process operating in the market ( and among some critics ) , where artists who appear able to retain their market value in the next decade are promoted and shown , whereas others considered beyond rehabilitation are ignored . |
| 29 | The tragedy of The Smiths is that Morrissey could only become the victim of the perfection of his style . |
| 30 | One possibility is that England could send their B team . |