Example sentences of "[be] that [n mass] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Likely contributing factors are that people fail to recognise , and to compensate for insidious deterioration of vision , hearing and decision speed as they age . |
| 3 | It may be that people wish to satisfy a number of needs at the same time . |
| 4 | I mean I mentioned earlier the fact that it might be that people perceive sexual harassment , where in fact the behaviour has been perfectly appropriate and it 's just that the person perceiving it is unused to it , but I think that 's the minority of cases , incidentally . |
| 5 | For reasons like these , it would seem a dangerous policy to ignore the processing of non-words entirely in one 's theorising about the organisation of the mental lexicon ; hence we must consider now what the mechanisms might be that people use when processing non-lexical verbal stimuli ( spoken or written non-words ) . |
| 6 | But it may be that people feel on historic grounds that it should be preserved . |
| 7 | One argument to which the Government has no right to resort is that statistics do not matter . |
| 8 | The difficulty with such ‘ sympatric ’ speciation is that species differ , not at a single gene locus , but by many genes ; it is hard to see how such a difference could build up if sexual crossing was continuously breaking it down again . |
| 9 | The idea is that species originate by the sudden events , whatever they may be , and they have new characteristics , which randomly related to the characteristics of their ancestral species . |
| 10 | A primary aim of regional organisation is that staff develop an intimate knowledge of the coast , countryside , historic houses and parks for which they are responsible . |
| 11 | Rod , is that national curriculum levels or is that staff comment after course outline just there ? |
| 12 | Men do not like disruptions and the effect is that staff feel less inclined to initiate conversations if they feel the receptivity is n't there . |
| 13 | The most important thing to understand here is that people try to re-establish some sort of control over their situation . |
| 14 | She goes , No but the point is that people kill for drugs which probably is right , I do n't know , so she says , We 're just not coming down . |
| 15 | I 'm not sure what this normality , this centre , is that people speak of . |
| 16 | One of the tragedies of the church is that people come to find true community , but all that there is is pseudo-community in which masked people abound . |
| 17 | ‘ The idea is that people come in for different services according to local need . |
| 18 | One thing that doing the talk show has taught me is that people hear what they expect to hear . |
| 19 | One possible explanation for these findings is that people take time to adjust to living in residential homes . |
| 20 | But what happens then is that people stop telling you things . |
| 21 | What 's nice about the weeks , which are graced by the rich and famous including tennis ace Martina Navratilova , is that people return year after year , creating a friendly atmosphere . |
| 22 | One important finding is that people differ in the number of repetitions needed to establish this kind of learning . |
| 23 | The difference between our position and that of the Labour party is that people accept that we would be prepared to use nuclear weapons and know that Labour Members would not be , so they would not have a deterrent . |
| 24 | For example , if we think that a basic assumption is that people matter as persons , and that this is justified , then what follows ? |
| 25 | Again , we see , that one of the very important truths that comes out of this is that people matter to God . |
| 26 | ‘ The reason we have so many members of other faiths , ’ Olivia says , ‘ is that people feel the feminine element has been pushed out from their religions . |
| 27 | Because what the tendency is that people feel that that bearings when when you say a bearing , you mean a steel ball . |
| 28 | The typical pattern with aggressiveness is that people attack , over-react , blow up and cause resentment . |
| 29 | What Honey and Munnford found is that people learn in basically four ways , the first of which is is the activist . |
| 30 | Why do you think it is that people need to do it ? |