Example sentences of "[be] that [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not an obligation on the taxpayer , because the promoter wants to build a harbour , bridge or whatever it might be that requires parliamentary procedures . |
| 2 | The first is that stopping popular schools from expanding because spaces are available at other less-popular schools nearby is a fundamental contradiction of the Government 's education policy . |
| 3 | Then there is that warmed red billiard ball with its skin slit round the middle , so oddly known as a grilled tomato . |
| 4 | The truth is that learning new skills does take time , and progress may appear to be very slow . |
| 5 | But the bigger point is that pursuing wrong priorities discredits greenery as a whole — just when it needs friends to defend it from hard-pressed businessmen and rabid deregulators . |
| 6 | Another boost for the tourists is that lineout ace John Eales is on the mend and could even creep into Saturday 's Test . |
| 7 | The central idea of long-wave theories is that advanced capitalist economies go through a regular cycle of boom and slump with each trough or peak occurring approximately fifty years apart . |
| 8 | Another possibility is that advanced patient age prompts a less aggressive hospital treatment so that its effect on mortality is exerted before discharge . |
| 9 | However , one suggestion is that acquired human retroviruses ( such as HIV ) might act as superantigens , and that this property could contribute to the T-cell abnormalities they produce . |
| 10 | Other news on pathogenesis is that fibroblast stimulating factor 1 , a cytokine first described in schistosomiasis , stimulates deposition of extracellular matrix ( D. Wyler , Tufts ) . |
| 11 | The rub is that measuring nanomolar changes in an ion , with minimal cell disturbance , has been a physiologist 's headache for decades . |
| 12 | He was brought up by a gaggle of ladies , and the result is that has enormous affection for them . |
| 13 | His final reflection was that ‘ such a picture can not be defined at all until we find a way of describing whatever it is that makes first-rate entertainment what it is ’ . |
| 14 | One of its central tenets is that studying black civilisation will boost the self-esteem of black students , and with it their academic performance . |
| 15 | In general , the classical perspective contained a peculiarly narrow view of what it actually is that controls human behaviour . |
| 16 | My concern is that increased external influence with accompanying loss of autonomy could lead to the demise of all that has been gained . |
| 17 | The most irritating assertion of the anti-downsizing lobby is that distributed open systems end up costing more because of all the hidden training and support costs . |
| 18 | Then there was that bleating Prime Minister on ’ Desert Island Discs ’ saying that he would love to get away from Question Time on Tuesdays and Thursdays . |
| 19 | Medical science was not yet equipped for investigation into near-death experiences , to which we shall refer in the final chapter ; almost the only form of resuscitation with which doctors were familiar was that following near-fatal immersion in water , accompanied , as it often is , by a rapid replay of the victim 's life . |