Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [adv] that [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most important finding from this study was simply that drivers were able to comfortably give ratings of subjective risk . |
| 2 | Shallis 's proposal is then that events that happen in the Universe may similarly combine in ways that have meaning , in a domain or context that transcends time as we know it . |
| 3 | The difference is partly that gifts and the offence-vengeance cycle are routes to intragenerational mobility , while exchanges of women and wives have more to do with intergenerational mobility . |
| 4 | The point is not that companies are ideal mechanisms for making decisions which have important social effects ( in the sense that we would choose them for this purpose other considerations being equal ) . |
| 5 | Our desire is not that others might be relieved while you are hard pressed , but that there might be equality . |
| 6 | The public reaction was generally that parents and doctors should decide . |
| 7 | So I think the scenario within , within the Health Service is basically that units , rather than working together , working in with each other , are actually competing to achieve contracts to , to , to secure work . |
| 8 | But what evidence is there that babies acquire social knowledge and that their behaviour to other people is qualitatively different from their behaviour to inanimate objects ? |
| 9 | If the content of a putatively infallible belief is merely that things are looking that way to me now , there is clearly less room for error than if I were to risk the belief that that way is pink . |
| 10 | If convention is silent there is no law , and the force of that negative claim is exactly that judges should not then pretend that their decisions flow in some other way from what has already been decided . |
| 11 | The fundamental belief of Dr William Glasser 's Control Theory is similarly that feelings are the product of choice of perception . |
| 12 | For the drift of the argument was essentially that men did not assume leadership , but that it was granted to them according to criteria which took merit and experience , as well as birth and social standing , into consideration . |
| 13 | By the weekend , the legal advice was apparently that ministers could tell Parliament to go hang . |
| 14 | My message is not that teachers ought to quit complaining and make the best of a bad job . |
| 15 | Here the girl died , but on other occasions the message is sometimes that women 's actions may have dire consequences for the fragile male , even though she herself may be unharmed . |
| 16 | Their concern was not that others might come here one day and identify the place as having been the kidnappers ' hideout ; rather , that those examiners would never discover who the kidnappers had been . |
| 17 | This arises not only from potential changes of field ( where student preferences are not guaranteed — the contractual baseline is merely that students are enabled to complete the fields upon which they originally registered ) but more significantly from the changing pattern of extra-field choice . |
| 18 | The really depressing thing about the Middle East is not that outsiders have treated it badly , which is the tedious Arab refrain , but that there is so little outsiders can do to save it from its future troubles . |
| 19 | The answer is probably that workers come a lot cheaper in China , but the money they have saved that way could surely have been doubled in extra sales — not to mention saving on shipping costs — if they had been made in a British factory . |
| 20 | One in seven primary-school children now suffers from asthma — but the Government 's response is simply that children who are at risk should be kept indoors when air quality is poor . |
| 21 | We all think it wrong to inflict pain gratuitously , but our reason for obeying this principle is not that others do . |
| 22 | The problem is not that parents want to spike the afternoon but that they do not think . |
| 23 | For , as the report went on to show , the problem is not that manufacturers employ too few people , but that the few people whom they do employ produce much less than their counterparts elsewhere in the world . |
| 24 | These are essentially meant to be measures of productivity and of service quality , and the idea is both that targets be set , and that analysis of outcomes be presented . |
| 25 | Head to visitor : " The purpose of school uniform is so that pupils have a pride in belonging to the school . " |
| 26 | The current official view is therefore that mergers are part and parcel of the competitive process , as opposed to restrictive practices which impede that process . |
| 27 | What is most damaging to Christianity is not that Christians doubt but that there seems to be so little open discussion and understanding of doubt . |
| 28 | Often this criticism is less than coherent , and it sometimes seems that a principal reason for the volume of protest is simply that rates are an unusually transparent tax ; there are few other cases where individuals are personally and directly responsible for making payments ’ . |