Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] be that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The implication for teaching is that texts or situations should not be devised where only the next level of ‘ difficulty ’ is provided , since these are not necessary . |
| 2 | The singular virtue of action-research is that things could not be left at that — it was necessary to go on and do something about it all . |
| 3 | ‘ The first rule of banking is that bankers lend to those they trust . |
| 4 | The point about this particular division of labour was that women , being outside the union and ignorant of the traditional battles over fat and lean , willingly complied with the work arrangements of the employers . |
| 5 | And that the reality of geography is that people will chose to live or develop in accessible locations . |
| 6 | Milne said : ‘ The beauty of rugby is that fans have always been able to have a pint afterwards . |
| 7 | One of the dangers of majoritarianism is that majorities are always apt to forget that in another context they might constitute a minority . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We further agree with retributivists , denunciationists and Justice Model theorists that one valid general principle for the distribution of punishment is that offenders should be punished at least roughly in proportion to the moral gravity of their offences . |
| 10 | This is simplified and implausible ( how could the Spartans exercise influence over Athenian politics ? ) but the grain of truth is that Themistokles was indeed out of favour at Athens by the end of the 470s , when he was ostracized ( Diod. xi.54 ) . |
| 11 | But their understanding of revelation is that God has revealed what is to be the case , or what is truth , in very exact terms . |
| 12 | The immediate consequence of the outbreak of war was that Lewis found his circle of friends broken up and changing . |
| 13 | The best reason for wanting some account of certainty in our analysis of knowledge is that people are rightly hesitant to claim knowledge when they are less than certain . |
| 14 | Rivers ( 1964 ) tells us that the essence of this type of behaviour is that responses are connected to a cue from the leader ( the teacher ) . |
| 15 | His only source of superiority is that Frye fagged for him at school . |
| 16 | The second piece of news is that John Major is supporting a commission proposal for a European Official Secrets Act . |
| 17 | Another aspect of Qaddafi 's theory of democracy is that parties were forbidden because they could only represent , and could represent only sectors of the people . |
| 18 | The conclusion suggested by this line of argument is that accounting academics have , perhaps , been worrying too much about trying to find a short-term measure of income which is consistent with DCF . |
| 19 | The criterion of distortion is that statements are made about the society which by social-scientific methods can be shown to be positively in error , whereas selectivity [ i.e. primary selectivity ] is involved where the statements are , at the proper level , ‘ true ’ , but do not constitute a balanced account of the available truth . |
| 20 | But the main line of attack was that Heseltine should ‘ either put up or shut up ’ — with the apparent intention of forcing him either to keep silent or to declare himself before he was ready . |
| 21 | One basic defect in these methods of scrutiny is that M.P.s must know the right questions to ask . |
| 22 | A second reason for doubting that genes were made of DNA was that proteins are chemically much more interesting , and it was already known that at least some genetic abnormalities are caused by the absence of specific proteins . |
| 23 | The reason for drawing a distinction between Francis and Findlay though both had been held incommunicado in breach of PACE was that Francis , unlike Findlay , had been able to see his solicitor for half an hour before signing the notes . |
| 24 | The crucial point in this deductive piece of science was that corals grow only in shallow water ; the theory became generally accepted , and helped to make Darwin 's name as a geologist . |
| 25 | One of the many alienating features of unemployment is that weekends lose their magic . |
| 26 | The second key piece of information was that Angela Morgan 's car had been found in North Kensington , not far from her flat , and was now cordoned off and being crawled over inch by inch by a forensic team hastily dispatched by Davidson . |
| 27 | It was not an unhelpful intervention , Mr. Deputy Speaker , because one of the problems in dealing with the targeting of advertising is that advertisements aimed at adults will be less effective than the Minister may wish if they take account of the fact that children may be present . |
| 28 | A consistent finding of studies of depression is that rates for women are approximately double that for males of similar groups ( see Figure 5.3 ) . |
| 29 | We will postpone discussion of the extraclausals until Chapter 9 , but a reliable and well-justified rule of thumb is that extraclausals , unlike postverbals , are always equivalent , in their semantic effect , to otherwise similar constructions where the adjective appears in initial position . |
| 30 | Essential to Trent 's possibilities of survival was that Louis should believe him ignorant of the death sentence already passed . |