Example sentences of "[pron] [be] that the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 JUST THOUGHT I 'd write to say how surprised and disappointed I am that the 10,000 Maniacs have decided ( at the time of writing ) to play only three live dates in the UK this year , all of which are in London .
2 JUST THOUGHT I 'd write to say how surprised and disappointed I am that the 10,000 Maniacs have decided ( at the time of writing ) to play only three live dates in the UK this year , all of which are in London .
3 I am sure that he was as pleased as I was that the Parliamentary Secretary , my hon. Friend the Member for Skipton and Ripon ( Mr. Curry ) , spent some time last week promoting British lamb in the middle of France .
4 Quicker thinking readers will probably have noticed what I did n't , which is that the first appearance of ‘ adverb ’ is a mistaken correction by a typesetter or proofreader of the correctly wrong ‘ abverb ’ .
5 Are not we entitled to be told the whole truth , as revealed by Greenpeace , which is that the total lifetime cost of Trident will be more than £23 billion ?
6 There is something more important , which is that the essential idea of the background view does not in itself conflict with our necessitation view .
7 ‘ I want to want ’ , the underground man 's lonely cry , is also his though he does n't utter it , and biting the governor 's car , like sticking the tongue out , is a one-against-all drumming of the heels of consciousness — but again with a difference which is that the biting extends beyond the notional ; it happens and it hurts , though it 's a minor foray compared with Raskolnikov 's spectacular eruption into actuality with the murder .
8 Such interrogatories shall bear a note at the end setting out the effect of RSC Ord 26 , r 3(2) , which is that the opposing party may within 14 days apply to vary , or have withdrawn , the interrogatories .
9 This is due to many factors , one of the more obvious of which is that the cumulative physical demands of manual work may well affect the worker 's health .
10 Hence fair play , one of the rules of which is that the eventual murderer shall be one of a small group , delimited in some way .
11 But then he embarked on his main thesis , which was that the entire Western intelligence system in Britain , France , Germany and America had been deeply penetrated by the KGB and systematically manipulated with clever disinformation put out by Moscow .
12 My suggestion to you is that the only connection between them is basic human nature itself , namely that the heart of man is incurably evil .
13 One point that may help you is that the lower the potency the more frequently it is likely to need repeating .
14 ‘ A number of people remarked to me how lucky we were that the first Green Shopping Day coincided with publication of the Green Consumer Guide , ’ she says with amusement .
15 One is that the small river or stream was low one night as it was a particularly dry period , the innkeeper deposited the body as per usual , but by the morning it had not drifted away .
16 The difference between a direct hot water cylinder and an indirect one is that the latter has a heat exchanger , often in the form of a coiled pipe , which takes the hot water from the boiler and passes its heat to the domestic hot water in the cylinder , the two never mixing .
17 An important one is that the possible substitutes for man ( preserving grammaticality , but not necessarily semantic normality ) are virtually identical in the two positions .
18 Psychological research on human thinking suggests two alternative views of the machinery of the mind ; one is that the mental representations and cognitive processes are abstract , language-like forms manipulated by rules , and an alternative is that they are mental models whose structure corresponds not to language but to states of affairs in the world .
19 One is that the present level of unemployment must concern the health service ( and 1 have said nothing about other social problems ! ) .
20 One is that the bigger the event ( up to about 3,000 people ) the more it costs proportionally .
21 One is that the light-sensitive pigments of the eye could also act as magnetic sense organs .
22 One is that the statutory services are not uniformly ideal and beyond reproach and those of us who have worked in and with them would acknowledge that .
23 One was that the principal Atra artist , Keith Hudson , began to express a wish privately to sign to Virgin direct , thereby increasing his own percentage .
24 And what assurance can there be that the brittle , complex industrial structure will not collapse through the failure of some small but vital component ?
25 They were joined , like most of the other foreign armies that came to Lebanon , by a retinue of Lebanese acolytes , of leftist militiamen and Lebanese Baath party functionaries , all of them desperate to explain how delighted they were that the peace-loving Syrians had arrived to save their country .
26 What puzzled him was that the beautiful creature could never have arranged itself in that unnatural position .
27 Could it be that the Prime Minister did n't want to admit to a U-turn , to reneging on a commitment to European partners , ‘ some of those European Commissioners ’ , ‘ the mining areas ’ and ‘ the people of Britain ’ ?
28 Could it be that the bourgeois educational system was flawed ?
29 Could it be that the first creatures to leave any sign of their existence were as complex as worms and molluscs ?
30 Could it be that the bloody human history of the past 5,000 years is nothing more than an evolutionary side-road ?
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