Example sentences of "[noun prp] be that [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modigliani 's style was so entirely different from Picasso 's that the two were in no way rivals . |
| 2 | While precise indicators of the numbers of laws depend upon more precise definition of what are considered as laws ( there is a variety of different types of order , statute and regulation ) , one crude indicator for the expansion of legislation in the United States is that the Federal Register grew from 2,355 pages in 1936 to 60,221 pages in 1975 ; another indicator for Britain is found in the Index to the Statutes — the index listing legislation for , the period from 1235 to 1935 takes up 788 pages , while that for 1936 to 1982 takes up 978 pages . |
| 3 | What will happen on Saturday is that the other half and kids will be banished to the shops , while he stays at home to watch the match in silence . |
| 4 | What 's nice about Willy and Hugh is that the two main characters are , apparently , so different . |
| 5 | And the feeling in Washington is that a great pile of it is lying around ( under the name of Noriega M. ) at banks in London . |
| 6 | The most interesting fact revealed about Norma is that the poor dear is obviously deranged . |
| 7 | The main stumbling block for Drouot and other auction houses that want to deal with Russia is that the old export regulations ban any external trade in works of art created before 1945 . |
| 8 | One of the difficulties about snap judgments of the later Wordsworth is that the revolutionary in him would not lie down and die . |
| 9 | One difficulty for Mountbatten was that the Foreign Secretary , Ernest Bevin , took a view of the situation closer to that of Gracey than that of the Supreme Commander : ‘ Bevin is behaving like the worst conservative diehard , ’ wrote Edwina Mountbatten in another context . |
| 10 | He went on to say that the unanimous view of the High Court judges in Scotland was that the Scottish courts should remain the responsibility of the United Kingdom and not become the responsibility of the Scottish Assembly . |
| 11 | An important distinction between Bourbon and Tennessee whiskeys such as George Dickell and Jack Daniels is that the latter are filtered through maplewood charcoal after distillation and have a sweeter , dustier character . |
| 12 | The problem with implementation in the UK is that the Unfair Contract Terms Act already regulates various types of contractual relationships , namely freely negotiated commercial contracts , commercial contracts on standard terms and conditions and consumer contracts whether or not freely negotiated . |
| 13 | The main conclusion drawn is not only that modern scientific notions of time are in many ways puzzling and paradoxical ; even more important for Shallis is that the essential quality of our actual experience of time is left out of such treatments altogether . |
| 14 | The message that teachers picked up most strongly from both Brian Way and Dorothy Heathcote was that the dramatic Process was all important . |
| 15 | The second major difference between RENFE 's unions and those in BR is that the Spanish unions are not grade-based but compete across the board for membership . |
| 16 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that one of the difficulties of the tragic situation in Cyprus is that the Greek Cypriot Government are recognised as the Government of the whole island , whereas the Turkish invasion was precipitated by the Greek Cypriot coup , which destroyed the 1960 constitution ? |
| 17 | The first submission by Mr. Ashworth was that a public nuisance can not arise out of a lawful act , whatever its consequences , and as what is complained of here , namely heavy goods vehicles being driven along Medway and Bridge Roads , is a lawful act , no public nuisance can arise . |
| 18 | What puzzled Jaq was that the Genestealer rebellion , now so bloodily suppressed , was a natural threat . |
| 19 | God Akhenaten was his prophet and in fact claimed to be the son of God his son and er all other religions were persecuted and er , so what in Ancient Egypt was that the traditional polytheism which was rampant was persecuted by there was only one god and as Andrea says , even proscribe the word gods in , in the plural , you know the , you know the er feminist thought police would try and rule out certain words you 're not allowed to use like chairman which has become chairperson or something like that |
| 20 | One of the key lessons to come out of the General Motors-Toyota joint venture in California is that the Japanese automaker does not rely on automation and technology to replace workers in the plant . |
| 21 | A more pressing issue for Europe is that no makeshift Italian government is likely to cut Italy 's public expenditure , let alone raise taxes , to reduce public debt to make the 1993 deadline set for European convergence at Maastricht . |
| 22 | One important consequence of this decline , or disappearance , of the old-style communist parties throughout Europe is that the European socialist movement , deeply divided from 1919 , when the Third ( Communist ) International was founded , until the 1980s , is now being reunified . |
| 23 | Yes , well the economic effect on our own country , well when I say under , er Europe , er , with this proposal that er , we have to open up our markets er for the benefit of the Soviet , er because , that is going to cost er , what they 're , what they 're asking for , not only in Soviet but also across Eastern Europe is that the agricultural market , the steel , and the textile market , all the most sensitive areas , should be opened up to them , and that 's going to shed a , a great increase in unemployment er within the , within the common market . |
| 24 | All that had happened to Jenna was that an old , painful wound had reopened . |
| 25 | What saved the orang , at least temporarily , in Sumatra and Borneo was that the mountainous terrain was far less appealing to early man . |
| 26 | The importance of Barlow was that the attitudinal preconditions for urban renewal were established as never before ; a tide of opinion had been caught . |
| 27 | The news from France was that the French Army was withdrawing into prepared positions to lure the German Army into a trap , but soon everyone realised that the Germans must be sweeping all before them . |
| 28 | The single most important reason for taking a temporary job given by respondents to the LFS was that a permanent job was not available [ see Table 2.10 ] . |
| 29 | To sum up what I have outlined so far , the view of Wimsatt and Brooks is that the essential property of poetry consists in the reconciliation of harmonization of opposites ; that this takes the form of an objective organization of the objective meanings of words ; and that although the same organization generally can not be found in other kinds of discourse , it nonetheless contributes to our knowledge and experience of ourselves and of the world . |
| 30 | The theology of SPRED is that every human experience contains a hidden truth about God , His plan , His world and our lives . |