Example sentences of "be [that] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not an obligation on the taxpayer , because the promoter wants to build a harbour , bridge or whatever it might be that requires parliamentary procedures . |
| 2 | The first is that stopping popular schools from expanding because spaces are available at other less-popular schools nearby is a fundamental contradiction of the Government 's education policy . |
| 3 | Then there is that warmed red billiard ball with its skin slit round the middle , so oddly known as a grilled tomato . |
| 4 | The truth is that learning new skills does take time , and progress may appear to be very slow . |
| 5 | But the bigger point is that pursuing wrong priorities discredits greenery as a whole — just when it needs friends to defend it from hard-pressed businessmen and rabid deregulators . |
| 6 | Very soon afterwards because of that blood leaking into the tissues , what is that wound that injury going to do ? |
| 7 | Another boost for the tourists is that lineout ace John Eales is on the mend and could even creep into Saturday 's Test . |
| 8 | The central idea of long-wave theories is that advanced capitalist economies go through a regular cycle of boom and slump with each trough or peak occurring approximately fifty years apart . |
| 9 | Another possibility is that advanced patient age prompts a less aggressive hospital treatment so that its effect on mortality is exerted before discharge . |
| 10 | However , one suggestion is that acquired human retroviruses ( such as HIV ) might act as superantigens , and that this property could contribute to the T-cell abnormalities they produce . |
| 11 | Other news on pathogenesis is that fibroblast stimulating factor 1 , a cytokine first described in schistosomiasis , stimulates deposition of extracellular matrix ( D. Wyler , Tufts ) . |
| 12 | The rub is that measuring nanomolar changes in an ion , with minimal cell disturbance , has been a physiologist 's headache for decades . |
| 13 | and the other thing is that to get this kind of continuity even at one post he 's got to work with Dave for at least six months and Dave 's going in March next year so we want a A L O in post by September of this year if that 's possible . |
| 14 | He was brought up by a gaggle of ladies , and the result is that has enormous affection for them . |
| 15 | His final reflection was that ‘ such a picture can not be defined at all until we find a way of describing whatever it is that makes first-rate entertainment what it is ’ . |
| 16 | It is not at all easy to see what it is that makes one thing tough and another brittle because the substances in each of these lists seem to have little enough in common . |
| 17 | Yes , so what act , so do you know Mark what it is that makes these people think those things ? |
| 18 | One of its central tenets is that studying black civilisation will boost the self-esteem of black students , and with it their academic performance . |
| 19 | In general , the classical perspective contained a peculiarly narrow view of what it actually is that controls human behaviour . |
| 20 | The necessity of a supply bag to the parachutist is that dangling twenty feet below him on a cord it hits the ground first , a useful precaution when landing in the dark . |
| 21 | My concern is that increased external influence with accompanying loss of autonomy could lead to the demise of all that has been gained . |
| 22 | Williams argues that the utilitarian , given his empirical approach , should recognize this fact and be prepared to investigate what it is that gives these people happiness . |
| 23 | Perhaps the strangest case on record is that described five years ago in The Lancet ( 1978 , vol 2 , p 952 ) by Dr M. Loughhead and two colleagues at the Royal Hobart Hospital , Tasmania . |
| 24 | The most irritating assertion of the anti-downsizing lobby is that distributed open systems end up costing more because of all the hidden training and support costs . |
| 25 | What 's that word , who was that put that word up that was it you Phillip ? |
| 26 | Then there was that bleating Prime Minister on ’ Desert Island Discs ’ saying that he would love to get away from Question Time on Tuesdays and Thursdays . |
| 27 | Medical science was not yet equipped for investigation into near-death experiences , to which we shall refer in the final chapter ; almost the only form of resuscitation with which doctors were familiar was that following near-fatal immersion in water , accompanied , as it often is , by a rapid replay of the victim 's life . |
| 28 | The problem for the Labour Party , of course , was that playing this propaganda card was always likely to backfire since its natural constituency should have been the very groups it was attacking . |