Example sentences of "[noun] [be] that [n mass] [vb mod] " in BNC.

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1 And that the reality of geography is that people will chose to live or develop in accessible locations .
2 She said : ‘ The irony is that people used to think I was terribly strong — particularly after that commercial — but I had never managed to cope with life at all .
3 He no longer fears ridicule or criticism ; instead , his fear is that people will not act swiftly enough , that human nature has locked itself into a process of acquisitiveness and materialism , and that three hundred years of our industrial society have alienated people from the aesthetic values mankind once possessed .
4 The fear is that people will start to flood out of Iraq at the same time , in which case we could be talking about up to 2 million people leaving Iraq through Jordan .
5 erm the fear is that people will start to flood out of Iraq at the same time , in which case we could be talking about up to 2,000,000 people leaving Iraq through Jordan .
6 The whole point of this thing is that , as I said in my speech , about trickle transfer is that people should mix as much as possible .
7 If , however , it is genuine , convinced , voluntary consent that is being sought , then free and open discussion can not be avoided , for what genuine consent needs is that people should feel quite free to voice their doubts and opposition , if only to create a situation in which there is the possibility of overcoming such doubts and hostility .
8 Another financial incentive is that sales may be generated by the naming of a group .
9 Dr David Williams of the University of Liverpool argues that the real reason for the push to alternatives is that people will prefer a filling that looks like teeth .
10 But the basic point is that data can be stuffed into files whenever you need it in that format .
11 But sightings of the young lady continued and the curious point was that people used to say that in the first compartment next to the tender there would often be the strong scent of roses .
12 It was tempting to consider asking Bill himself to share the stage , but the consensus of opinion was that people might find the combination a little ghostly , a little too reminiscent , when all along my instinct was to convey the spirit and feeling of Grenfell , without resorting to mimicry .
13 One of her worst fears is that folk will shun her because of what 's happened .
14 One of the disability lobby 's persistent fears is that people will be pushed off the invalidity benefit into disability working allowance if they can do some work .
15 A fundamental database concept is that data should " model the real world " as accurately as possible .
16 Sales orientation — here the dominant concept is that people will not buy until they are persuaded to buy by positive selling .
17 The central implication of RHT is that people will not only act to reduce their perceived level of risk when it exceeds the target level , they will also act to increase it when it is below the target level .
18 The argument is that people can not construct socialism out of kitsch ( sometimes with the equally problematic implication that they can out of art ) .
19 When I am dead my greatest wish is that people will say of my work , no one saw in that way before .
20 When I am dead my greatest wish is that people will say of my work , no one saw in that way before .
21 One of the advantages of list processing is that data can be processed sequentially without the records themselves being stored sequentially .
22 ‘ The great thing about writing sport for Punch is that people ca n't say it 's not as funny as it used to be , because nobody 's done it before , ’ he said .
23 One basic defect in these methods of scrutiny is that M.P.s must know the right questions to ask .
24 One of the criticisms of this approach is that data may be collected which is never used subsequently .
25 The drawback associated with this approach is that data may be held indefinitely with no use being made of it .
26 And the nice thing was that people used to join us .
27 Their hope is that people will become aware , not only of the scientific importance of these discoveries which help to map our distant past , but also of their supreme beauty .
28 The hope is that people will forget how hopeless they were .
29 The other side of the placebo coin is that people can be made ill by something they believe will make them ill .
30 Of course , I mean the government view is that people will come back with S V Q's and that is what 's going to do it .
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