Example sentences of "[subord] that [be] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where that is what the answer is , F of X. |
| 2 | Cos that 's what the work should have done . |
| 3 | Cos that 's what the answers in that figure are . |
| 4 | Cos that 's what the work should have done . |
| 5 | If that 's what the women want , then let them have it , and if anyone accuses me of ulterior motives such as laziness , squeamishness or Freudian anxieties about symbolic castration by infant sons — I deny it all . |
| 6 | If that 's what the lads in the station are saying it would be a foolish local politician who still tried to suggest otherwise . |
| 7 | ‘ If that is what the card says . ’ |
| 8 | Because it is inevitable that there will continue to be an increased use of IT within enterprises , existing computer- and telecommunications-based managers clearly would normally be expected to be in a much stronger position than existing library and information centre managers to become the overall managers of all the information-based resources of the firm , IT-based or not , if that is what the company decides it needs . |
| 9 | But it does mean that , faced with options ranging from what is merely arguably right to what the auditors believe to be best , their critics are convinced that auditors will in practice settle for the arguably right if that is what the directors prefer . |
| 10 | Next day Agnes ( if that is what the storm is called ) keeps to a westerly track , hurrying a little more , deepening a little more . |
| 11 | Despite their lack of power and control , it is individual teachers in schools who must effect changes to improve education — if that is what the tests show to be necessary . |
| 12 | ‘ Held with the intention ’ has come to mean brought into being with the intention , on the part of anyone , and subsequently held , by him or by anyone else' ; and if that is what the draftsman intended or was instructed to express , the conclusion is irresistible that he did so with a degree of competence that would not have disgraced a chimpanzee learning the piano . |
| 13 | If that is what the hon. Gentleman describes as an increasing rate of passenger train collisions , it shows that he does not deserve the attention or respect of the House . |
| 14 | He learnt how to make love in complete silence or to talk all night if that was what the other man wanted . |
| 15 | If that was what the speaker intended to say , why did n't he just say it ? |
| 16 | Ms MccGwire said : ‘ I think it 's a terrible shame the judges are not upholding freedom of speech and the public 's right to know , because that 's what the case is all about . ’ |
| 17 | He smiles , because that 's what the Big Man said . |
| 18 | Then the fortunate staff who are still employed and they 're regarded as fortunate that you 've still got a job , because that 's what the management use repeatedly to professional people like nurses , sisters and other professional organizations who work within the Health Service , you 're very lucky to have a job . |
| 19 | It 's only on Innsbruck that we 've done it because that 's what the market demands . |
| 20 | So he will have certain latitudes , because that is what the reader needs . |
| 21 | Thus , in the case of an imperative clause , for instance , the verb naturally occupies thematic position because that is what the message is about : getting the addressee to do something . |
| 22 | The Minister meant that any surpluses will not be transferred to pensioners because that is what the Government desire . |
| 23 | Generally this type of behaviour is carried out by a person in authority and the victim — because that is what the recipient has become — is reluctant or afraid to complain . |
| 24 | I suppose one of the things I use to demonstrate it most clearly is that for many years I s I gave lectures on communications and one of the things I used to say in those lectures was I did not know , and I was stressing that sense what came first if newspapers write stories in a particular way , because that is what the public wanted or do public want a particular type of story and that 's that newspapers round-up and I stopped posing that question when Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun because Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun and introduced a lot of sex-type stories you know stories about brothels and madames whipping people and goodness knows what else and the sales rocketed and there we had almost a captive example of change in the design of change in the type of stories that were written and people , people were buying it and so you have an issue of you know that your content was actually being by what your readership wanted . |
| 25 | Now I I 've chosen an example w with a Conservative Secretary of State and the Labour majority , but I ask the Noble Lords on all , in all parts of the House to think it could work the other way round , because a Labour Secretary of State could exercise exactly these powers in an area where with a er Conservative majority on on er on on the local council or councils and I ask the House to think of this , not in a party er as a as a party issue between Labour , Conservative or Liberal Democrat , I just ask you to consider whether it is right for a Secretary of State of any political persuasion to er secure by appointment to a police authority a political control from the centre of that police authority , because that is what the Government 's presents proposals would still achieve and er it is our view and it is the view of which is which is finds expression in Amendments five , eight and eleven that the we should return to the tripartite system of p of policing which policing is a partnership between the Chief Constable er the local authority in the area and the Home Secretary , that er tripartite arrangement has worked extremely well for thirty years , there have been minor conflicts in some parts of the country , but nothing to justify the wholesale removal of of of the partnership which is now proposed . |
| 26 | He flung the bedclothes back but not nearly so purposefully as heretofore , and he stayed on his back beside Clarissa who begged him not to go shouting just for once , because that was what the gramophone girl wanted , did n't he see ? |
| 27 | Then early black singers like Leadbelly would do songs about that , but say , ‘ Baby , let me rock and roll you all night long … ’ since that 's what the term ‘ rock and roll ’ means , pure and simple . |
| 28 | And since that is what the contract binds both sides to do , it is at period t - 1 an optimal contract . |
| 29 | I am not sure whether that is what the hon. Gentleman proposes . |
| 30 | The question whether that is what the buyer bargained for has to be answered according to such tests as men in the market would apply , leaving more delicate questions of condition , or quality , to be determined under other clauses of the contract or sections of the Act . |