Example sentences of "[vb base] [be] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are a number of , sort of a dictionary of useful phrases , I mean you actually used one or two just now , and one of the things that we suggest is that people when they 're not under the pressure of being in the studio , which after all for them is alien territory , that they should actually have one or two of these useful phrases which do cover a , a multitude of embarrassing situations , if you want to put it that away . |
| 2 | One fact which people often forget is that horses which have passed the acute clinically ill stage of the disease will still remain infectious for up to six weeks or possibly even longer . |
| 3 | ‘ What the documents conclusively reveal is that ministers asked the civil service to cost the Labour review using figures and interpretations provided by the Conservative Party . |
| 4 | No , I know , well I mean what is there for young people to look forward to these days and I feel really sorry for them and I mean all I hope is that Jenny will get a job |
| 5 | Another feature that we welcome is that manufacturers are now investing here in the manufacture of equipment to supply the telecommunications industry because of the strength of the underlying service provision in this country . |
| 6 | The impression these records give is that Aethelbald brought certain West Saxon territories directly under his own authority . |
| 7 | The conclusions that they draw are that theses have been written for a variety of purposes , which have changed over the years , and which vary according to customs in different countries . |
| 8 | All we know is that Nicola was due to meet him at nine o'clock and that he did n't turn up . |
| 9 | All I know is that Cliff Thorburn is pretty boring to watch , so 's Steve Davis , but they generally win the tournaments . |
| 10 | All we know is that Gunhilda was a woman of great talent and charm , for — in addition to having fascinated two powerful barons — she had also established the closest friendship with Anselm of any woman known to us . |
| 11 | All I know is that God is n't a good explanation , so we must wait and hope that somebody comes up with a better one . " |
| 12 | The impression I get is that Gigolo Aunts know more about good ol' apple pie than Mr Bloody Kipling . |
| 13 | The main reason for the backwards trace is that decisions about the optimal labelling on the forward pass might prove to be local maxima . |
| 14 | But nonetheless the literal translation I understand is that people who are Dutch citizens in this country should contact the er ambassador at thirty eight Hyde Park Gate and seek the relevant forms in order to register for the election and vote in the U K and I hope our friends er in in the Binnenhoff have taken that a little more seriously than appears to have been the case in in the Home Office . |
| 15 | Best guess is that SunSoft will offer reasonably priced Motif upgrades for Solaris 1 . |
| 16 | It emerges that one of the foci around which these criticisms gather is that schools do not reliably , nor for all pupils , inculcate the habits and attitudes of ‘ good learning ’ . |
| 17 | All we in fact observe is that h is regularly followed by B. This consistent association leads us to connect the two in our own minds , to expect A always to be followed by B , and this we then express by saying that A is the cause of B and B the effect of A. This is all perfectly in order , and indeed it is through such links and associations that we build up an ordered and coherent conception of the world around us and make sense of our experience of it . |
| 18 | The abstract reason why species migrate is that environments change so that the best place to be varies with time . |
| 19 | If if I I think what I what I would like to say What what I think is that E Ten Erm it 's very difficult to make this point , since it 's an approved policy in an an approved structure plan , but I think E Ten 's got it wrong . |
| 20 | That 's actually a times , multiply , so what you do is that N times that bracket times N times that bracket and then the whole lot is square rooted I 'll come on to that shortly Another way of thinking about erm the product moment correlation is that what it 's doing , it 's putting the line of best bet through the data . |
| 21 | The Court of Appeal 's decisions have wavered somewhat , but the test which they now favour is that D is reckless if he ‘ could not care less ’ whether the woman is not consenting . |
| 22 | What I fear is that A-levels will be diluted without at the same time lengthening degree courses , particularly mathematical ones , to maintain standards . |
| 23 | All I mean is that brides are always described as beautiful . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Well , I suppose what I mean is that Richard is someone I would never have introduced to my parents — and he is someone I had quite a … sexual relationship with . |
| 25 | No , the point they both make is that Jesus was equipped for his messianic mission by the Spirit promised for the last days ; that this Spirit was not available to others in the days of his flesh ; and that after his death and resurrection the last days were extended , so to speak , by the followers of Jesus inheriting his mission , his authority and his Spirit . |
| 26 | A point which these listings often miss is that typifications are not all of equal generality within the everyday world . |
| 27 | The implications for selling as a result of these developments have been that salespeople of fast-moving consumer goods are no longer compelled to sell the products in the old-fashioned ‘ salesmanship ’ sense , as advertising has already pre-sold the goods for them . |
| 28 | Perhaps the most moving sentence in the whole book comes in the last chapter as he takes his leave of his reader : ‘ For it is not what you are nor what you have been that God regards with his most merciful eyes , but what you would like to be . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ What I see is that men are adapting well and , if anything , are leading this corporate transformation . |
| 30 | He continued : ‘ One of the problems I have is that people talk to me of political theatre and non-political theatre . |