Example sentences of "[that] [verb] [pers pn] [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | During his waking hours the thought that haunted him was the Renault 18 and its two occupants . |
| 2 | The main thing that upsets me is the fact that she 's a bastard . |
| 3 | I saw no one on the long lonely road home , and the only enemy that attacked me was the midges . |
| 4 | The indifference of Limnititzkers to the great outdoors is well-known ; the only landscapes that interest them are the hills of a totally discorporeal Zion . |
| 5 | The next climb that attracted us was The Magic Line on El Gorro Frigio — a large dome higher up the massif . |
| 6 | Well the thing that concerns me is the readiness in which er rushing to ban the communist party . |
| 7 | The only thing that linked them was the embarrassing albatross of a marriage in whose death both of them had been guilty . |
| 8 | Another thing that surprised me was the manager 's quotes after the defeat at Spurs . |
| 9 | I am a thousand winds that blow I am the diamond glint on snow . |
| 10 | ‘ The right hook that finished him was the best body punch I 've ever thrown ’ said Damien with the air of a winner . |
| 11 | The only thing that spoilt it was the absence of Robert . |
| 12 | All that betrayed her was the slight tremor in the hand holding her wineglass . |
| 13 | One thing that frightened him was the thought that , for some reason or other , Busby might prevent them from leaving . |
| 14 | The constituency that chose you was the Conservative party . |
| 15 | What bothered me mo well wha one of the things that bothers me is the fact that he said that he would n't like to do hospital chaplaincy because he would n't like to go visiting because he 's got no small talk . |
| 16 | The only assumption that explains them is the same assumption that leads Miller and Swift to criticise the generic masculine : that the norm of humanity in just about every sphere is a man . |
| 17 | The birds that do it are the oilbirds of South America , and the cave swiftlets of the Far East , the ones whose nests are used for birds ' nest soup . |
| 18 | Another flower that astonished me was the bloom of the Golden Abutilon . |
| 19 | The first thing that struck her was the cold . |
| 20 | One thing that struck me was the great need to bear children . |
| 21 | It was the furthest north I had ever travelled and the first thing that struck me was the strangeness of the dialect . |
| 22 | Another thing that struck me was the difference in sexual attitudes between Germany and Britain . |
| 23 | The first thing that struck me was the weight of everything . |
| 24 | Probably the first thing that strikes you is the layout of the screen — there are dotted lines indicating the text 's margins , and as you type your purple prose , you notice that every space is marked by a little spot . |
| 25 | And in the middle there was an area open to space , just a circle of bare surface with a window all the way round it , and a sign on the window that said it was the site of the Capellan arrival in the solar system . |
| 26 | ‘ And all this from the party that said it was the party of low taxation . |
| 27 | One of soccer 's great trouble-shooters clocked in at the Cadbury 's chocolate factory where Rovers train but the last thing that greeted him was the sweet smell of success . |
| 28 | It 's being held in the town that claims it 's the birthplace of British ballooning . |