Example sentences of "[be] that [adv] [det] [n mass] " in BNC.
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1 | Evidence about who actually acts as an unpaid carer has to be pieced together from various statistical sources , but the best informed estimates seem to be that very few people are cared for by non-relatives , and that women provide about 75 to 85 per cent of relative care . |
2 | IT is seldom remarked how curious it is that so many people need to find a meaning to life . |
3 | One good result so far , though , is that so many people were mystified by acronyms being bandied about ( SNUPPS , NII , AGR and the like ) that the secretariat for the inquiry had to produce a list of them . |
4 | But the worst aspect of this whole affair is that so many people do not care about the quality of life for old people . |
5 | The legendary American publisher Bill Targ got it right : ‘ The trouble with the publishing business is that too many people who have half a mind to write a book do so . ’ |
6 | The trouble is that too many people in the Labour party are more concerned with scaring than with caring . |