Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] that a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The marvel of the Massinghams was that a lineage going back five hundred years could have produced so many generations of amiable nonentities . |
| 2 | The other fact annoying the ARFU is that a precedent had already been set when the All Blacks played in Canada before touring Wales and Ireland in 1989 . |
| 3 | These marvellous towers may a little represent the pride of the landlord-citizens or the arrogance of families recently enriched ; but they certainly reflect the aspirations of many of the lesser cities in their heyday — and many of the greater too ; what is peculiar to San Gimignano is that a group of towers survive . |
| 4 | The primary submission for Woolwich was that a subject who makes a payment in response to an unlawful demand for tax , or any similar demand , at once acquires a right to recover the amount so paid as money had and received to the subject 's use . |
| 5 | But the rumour in Germany is that a member of the public shopped Stuttgart by making a call to UEFA . |