Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [be] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A parameter entity is an SGML construct which may be thought of in simple terms as like a variable declaration in a programming language : the effect of using them here is that each base tag set can provide its own specific definition for the constituents of texts , which can , moreover be modified by the user . |
| 2 | The thing that annoyed him most was that this was all such a waste of time when there was work to do . |
| 3 | Just just to show that erm well they just were that those sort of people you know . |
| 4 | Half those questioned had not heard of SERPS — which might not have been surprising had it not been that most were members of it . |
| 5 | What made it easy was that earlier charters had been produced by so many different monastic scriptoria in so many house styles that spotting the inauthentic was a task for the dedicated scholar — who in any case was more likely to be employed in propagating fraud than in hunting it out . |
| 6 | Or could it simply be that many of our best satirical writers were themselves college lecturers ? |
| 7 | What did surprise me however was that some of my colleagues in the Commons took it on themselves to force me and others to change their minds . |
| 8 | What he 's saying to us here is that that there is a reason that Jesus had been condemned and that those who had the authority to do so had carried out their work . |