Example sentences of "be [prep] a [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I associate myself with the remarks made by hon. Members in all parts of the House about the hon. and learned Member for Leicester , West ( Mr. Janner ) , who has been through an ordeal that none of us would wish to share . |
| 2 | In addition , when I look at the plight of the millions of people who 've been made homeless recently because of flooding in other parts of the world , it does make me realize how lucky we are as a society that homelessness is still on a much smaller scale here than it is in some countries . |
| 3 | The company 's predicament and that of its 5,500 employees in the UK are of a kind that would respond to sympathetic treatment intelligently applied by the Government — the kind of assistance , in short , given by a previous Tory administration which nationalised Rolls Royce to save it . |
| 4 | Most tone-units are of a type that we call simple , and the sort that we call compound are not discussed in this chapter . |
| 5 | For the changes that threaten this country , either from a majority Labour government or one kept in power by the Liberal-Democrats , are of an enormity that still has not sunk in . |
| 6 | Some of the solutions adopted are of an intricacy that to a British observer seems almost unbelievable . |
| 7 | I think that it 's not just the policy , I think it 's the whole of society 's attitudes , because children learn what they are by how people see them , and if they 're in a society that says you 're in an unusual situation , if you 're not with two parents then somehow your situation is n't right and we condemn it ! |
| 8 | We 're in a room that occupies the whole ground floor of the cottage ; in one comer , a steep staircase — more like a ladder climbs to some sort of loft or upper room . |
| 9 | Or have you ( if you are very , very unfortunate ) ever been into a pub that for some reason does not even stock the stuff ? |
| 10 | Portugal has not claimed that the treaty is void , but that its negotiation and conclusion are with a State that has no legal authority over the territory in question . |
| 11 | If these new inputs had been in a form that small farmers in marginal areas could practically use , it could be hypothesised that the resulting extra incomes would encourage soil-conserving investments and would take the pressure off farmers to over-exploit the environment . |
| 12 | Baroness Seear , a leader of the Liberal peers for several years , remarks that ‘ I can honestly say that I have never been in a place that treats you better on male-female equality . |
| 13 | His security had been in a family that was to lose its roots , and in a sister who was to lose her life . |
| 14 | The figures are from a report that the Association for the Conservation of Energy published last week . |
| 15 | This ‘ Dutch courage ’ can be useful if you are in a situation that requires you to be resolute . |
| 16 | If you are in a situation that demands action — act now if you are the victim — report the problem . |
| 17 | Products forming the bottom right-hand group are in a market that does not offer future prospects of expansion and profit to the company . |
| 18 | It may have been from a belief that deputies provide a less good service , although published research has shown high patient satisfaction with deputies . |
| 19 | The sort of applications which we might wish to make in the future would be for an example that an interim payment be made out of the money in court or that the money be transferred to the public trust office , we do n't know how we should proceed yet , but if we are at liberty to apply generally |
| 20 | Ideally , the marker trees would be of a species that was foreign to , or rare in , the area , and easy to distinguish by form and size at all seasons . |
| 21 | But clearly some immoralities may be of a kind that no government has authority to commit . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , they appear to be of a type that would be used in the manufacture of bulk chemicals . ’ |
| 23 | They should also be of a type that has simple and quickly altered bridle trimming . |
| 24 | Now there are two ways that the new composite sentence token will be of a type that is eventually to acquire a constant significance . |
| 25 | Compare now the vastly more plausible second way in which the new composite sentence token may be of a type that is to acquire constant significance . |
| 26 | With some research topics , such as asking people to say what criminal offences they have committed , the only chance of getting any truthful answers would be with a guarantee that the answers would be confidential ( no one else would be told the answers given by a particular individual ) , and the best way of ensuring this is to allow respondents not to give their names ( anonymity ) . |
| 27 | Perhaps a closer analogy would be with a telescope that misrepresented what we were looking at . |
| 28 | My father , who 's also an actor , once wanted me to be in a play that he was in , and just being asked made me cry . |
| 29 | Thus if the coursework involves using an EP system called X , then X source files should be in a form that other tools can read . |
| 30 | That is why it is so vitally important that legislation should be expressed in language that can be clearly understood and why it should be in a form that makes it readily accessible . |