Example sentences of "[be] that [pron] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem with any efficiency drive in government is that what some people regard as a mere means to an end , others regard as an end in itself . |
| 2 | But his shadow , Mr Gerald Kaufman , said : ‘ The fact is that what this Government has adopted is the policy of the three o'clock knock by police . ’ |
| 3 | The special feature of the two Unidroit Conventions is that they each deal with a transaction involving two distinct contracts . |
| 4 | The problem for the Thatcher Government is that its own diagnosis of the crisis of state authority constantly impelled it towards intervention whether in the internal affairs of trade unions , the spending priorities of local authorities , the curricula of schools and universities , or the patterns of family behaviour . |
| 5 | McGegan 's problem ( if it can be considered one ) is that his own orchestra , Philharmonia Baroque , is based in Los Angeles , and is therefore too expensive to bring annually to Göttingen . |
| 6 | What has happened to me in the group is that my own perceptions of myself and others have been modified by group norms , which may only be mine marginally . |
| 7 | ‘ But the fact is that my own mother and father lived in Innes Place in their first house after they were married . |
| 8 | In contrast , the District 's perception of the Cambridge Board 's policy was that its own work would be undermined and possibly replaced by expansion of the Board 's providing powers for Chapter III courses through the appointment of a cadre of university resident tutors throughout the region . |
| 9 | What he did not know until late on was that his former Chancellor was to make a statement on his resignation . |
| 10 | The fact was that his own heart had grown irresistibly fond of the love of his life , Senora Isabel-Maria Estanguet de Moss , whose husband had just been posted to the Argentinian Embassy in Brussels . |