Example sentences of "be [verb] that [noun] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I 'm glad to see more & more people are realising that Keegan is a complete twat ! |
| 2 | Those who lose heart and cry out in despair are reminded that Jesus is in command and that he will steer the little ship of the Church into calmer waters . |
| 3 | ‘ When we see the lights at Christmas time we are reminded that Jesus is with us , we are happy for we find new life . ’ |
| 4 | Although the fish are probably using water currents , the sun or a magnetic sense to help them achieve this feat , it has long been suspected that smell is also involved . |
| 5 | It has been suspected that PSC is an autoimmune disease . |
| 6 | With the Berlin Wall , the most famous barrier of all , falling , the more media-conscious activists among the Soviet Jews already here are warning that Israel is just not prepared for the influx . |
| 7 | It has already been argued that physics is constructed through a series of dualities in which physics is rated positively , and other disciplines , chiefly the arts , are rated negatively . |
| 8 | It has often been argued that Marxism is largely based on a utopian ideology , functionalism on a ruling ideology . |
| 9 | Thus , it has been argued that photography is the quintessential surrealist art form , that photographs are like ‘ death masks ’ , like footprints in the sense of being ‘ imprints of the real ’ ( Krauss 1985b , p. 110 ) . |
| 10 | It has been argued that supply is more likely to show a positive response to relative price increases which are thought to be temporary than those that are thought to be permanent . |
| 11 | ‘ But at NT developer 's conferences we 're told that Posix is only for winning Government bids , and we should n't use it ’ . |
| 12 | Yo you 're saying that Newark is actually closed , do n't go to Newark because er of the roadworks , it 's er it 's closed . |
| 13 | ‘ You 're saying that rape is the only way I 'm going to make you mine ? ’ he questioned , and , to make her treacherous body betray her , he planted a spine-thrilling kiss on the side of her throat . |
| 14 | There are one or two awards that not everyone would bust a gut to win , but IBM Corp 's Personal Software Products unit is proud to announce that the OS/2 2.0 operating system has been awarded the Computer Language Jolt Cola Award for Product Excellence : we 're advised that Jolt is the cola that has five times the sugar and twice the caffeine of regular cola — and the connection with computers ? |
| 15 | ‘ Not too good , ’ I said , ‘ I 've just been told that Punch is closing . ’ |
| 16 | " I want you to go away , because I 've been told that Timothy is in love with you . |
| 17 | The engineering union , the AEEU , says staff have been told that Longwall is now centralising its operation in Lancashire because of Government grants available to companies creating jobs in the North . |
| 18 | We are told that Nirvana is permanent , stable , imperishable , unmovable , ageless , deathless , unborn and unbecome ; that it is power , bliss and happiness , the secure refuge , the shelter and the place of unassailable safety , that it is the real truth and the Supreme Reality ; that it is the Good , the Supreme goal , and the one and only consummation of our life , the eternal , hidden and incomprehensible Peace . |
| 19 | We are told that Tamburlaine is ‘ misled by dreaming prophecies ’ in the opening scene , and this may well turn out to be true . |
| 20 | In addition , it has been shown that Ac-ASA is the form of the drug predominantly found in the rectal mucosa of patients taking oral sulphasalazine . |
| 21 | It has been shown that endoscopy is safe even in high risk groups if performed by a skilled practitioner . |
| 22 | Very recently it has been shown that TFIIA is also able to dissociate negative components from TBP , thereby possibly acting as an anti-inhibitor ( 15 , 16 ) . |
| 23 | But it has never been shown that induction is logically more respectable than a formalized argument from analogy , indeed that induction from some particulars leading to deduction of others is anything else but a roundabout argument from analogy . |
| 24 | This plant exports the chips to Japan for processing but the scheme to replace the original forest with plantation to sustain the plant indefinitely has foundered because it has not been demonstrated that timber-growing is a worthwhile economic activity that does not threaten ownership of the land . |
| 25 | It has hardly been recognised that India is among the few countries in the world that has a proven capability to undertake orbital missions or detonate a nuclear device . |
| 26 | It has been proved that creativity is a new development of the mind that can be cultivated . |
| 27 | It must not be forgotten that Luke is the author of two books in the New Testament : the Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles . |
| 28 | It can not be claimed that Leapor is the most obscure of these writers ; indeed , her work has been noticed in the past by some very highly regarded poets and critics . |
| 29 | On the other hand , there is a strong case to be made that Aquinas is not setting out to provide proofs of God 's existence . |
| 30 | It may be accepted that Althusser is describing science by its theoretical practice , its ‘ labour of theoretical transformation ’ , but this is not adequate to distinguish it from ideology as a practice . |