Example sentences of "[noun] be that [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The signs are that some people there were more sophisticated and succeeded in bilking the revenue . |
| 2 | The result is that retired people too often become bored , dissatisfied and unfulfilled . |
| 3 | The result is that older people can be attacked from either direction regardless of what they decide to do . |
| 4 | A further point to remember in the presentation of data is that most people can not ‘ take in ’ lists of figures , so ensure that they are always presented in a diagrammatic form to show clearly proportions , relationships and trends . |
| 5 | The third distinctive feature of the dinosaurs was that many species grew enormously in size . |
| 6 | A feature of suburbia is that many people do not even know their own neighbours ; certainly not those across the way . |
| 7 | Miron 's tentative conclusion is that older staff may become less concerned about teaching as they develop other priorities ; but it is equally possible that students are responding more similarly , and more favourably , to lecturers who are more like themselves . |
| 8 | There are certain routine practices , customs and procedures in our society whose consequence is that black people have poorer jobs , health , housing , education and life chances than do the white majority . |
| 9 | The truth is that most people break their diet not just once , but many times . |
| 10 | The second point is that many people lean forwards as they slap down the opponent 's punch and so you need to remember that there are two fists to worry about here , not one ! |
| 11 | Another change in recent years is that most people have become aware of the term ‘ ageism ’ , but there is still little effort to understand its causes and consequences . |
| 12 | The truth about customers is that most people who serve them see them , at some time or other , as enemies . |
| 13 | In general , though , the best reason for avoiding serious abusive stuff is that most people just do n't like seeing it . |
| 14 | The Church does this because the will of Jesus is that all people should be whole in body , mind and spirit . |
| 15 | One view is that it is the result of government parsimony towards prison staff ; the other is that such staff shortages as occur are due to the arcane system of rigid restrictive practices developed by the Prison Officers ' Association ( POA ) . |
| 16 | The sad irony of this unhappy state of affairs was that these animals.played a comforting role in the lives of such old women . |
| 17 | The explicit or implicit argument is that elderly people have experienced a constriction of economic liberty in modern Britain because of the sometimes deliberate and sometimes unconscious course of development of social welfare and employment policies . |
| 18 | And the good news is that 10 % from every sale will go to help the World Wide Life Fund For Nature in its quest for earth 's survival . |
| 19 | The trouble is that that 58% is largely money in-and-money-out . ’ |
| 20 | The trouble is that most people do one once they have achieved the other . |
| 21 | The Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals ' report suggested that part of the explanation for paying little attention to teaching skills in appointing university staff is that many people believe that it is hard to measure teaching ability . |
| 22 | Even though the obvious explanation of the abnormal rhythmicity is that these people suffer from the loss of the light/dark cycle as a time-cue , the result also indicates that the other time-cues ( social factors , activity , and meal times ) are inadequate . |
| 23 | The message is that all staff of an institution have more than an ‘ academic ’ interest in the activities of staff in other departments . |
| 24 | However , as table 5.2 and figure 5.2 show , the other very important component of the trend is that more people than before are living to be very old , into the high eighties and nineties , and this is to some degree due to changing mortality trends at later ages . |
| 25 | But my enduring thoughts as I finally flew away from the Cape Verdian sunshine back to Britain was that these people deserve to succeed . |
| 26 | The thing is that two people this morning came to do their grave . |
| 27 | The thing is that many people are anti-Belfry , but we should n't be too thin-skinned because nowadays everything gets criticised . |
| 28 | The other thing is that these people have a really good handle on the EQ'ing process at the very end . |
| 29 | The interesting thing is that different people come up with very different ideas . |
| 30 | The difficulty is that most people seem to believe such an important issue must somehow be supported by public funds , from the Sports Council perhaps . |