Example sentences of "that [verb] be [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most reformers admitted that entail was a social and political necessity if the nobility were to survive with decoro . |
| 2 | Ironically , it 's the simplicity that has been a major headache for distributors Oak Marketing . |
| 3 | This gives women equal access to a pavilion that has been a male preserve for 125 years and leaves Lord 's as English cricket 's last bastion of discrimination . |
| 4 | For some I know this is simply not enough , but as the years go by I find that Chopin 's ultra-refined eloquence of utterance responds more readily to an unforced , more integrated style than the ferocious changeability that has been the very kernel of Chopin playing for the last twenty or thirty years . |
| 5 | Yet it is migration to and from rural areas that has been the main concern of rural geographers in the last century , and so attention is now turned to the first major theme of this chapter , rural population change . |
| 6 | And then I have n't got space now , but here you 'd have a millionth , six noughts that 'd been a million . |
| 7 | Once you are afflicted with this inverted mentality in which every thing that exists is a pale shadow of some abstract general principle , expressed in a compound-noun sandwich , you are incapable of seeing or saying anything clearly . |
| 8 | There is no evidence that I 've finished , I 've finished eating and I 've finished my meal involve different senses of finish , so we must say that complete is a cognitive synonym of finish in only a sub-set of the grammatical occurrences of the latter . |
| 9 | All that happened was a marked decline in the preferential finance made available by parastatal Kenyan banks ( Commonwealth Secretariat , 1985 : p. 26 ) . |
| 10 | Because their faith tells to rejoice , but circumstances of life can be such that rejoicing is the one thing that they can not do . |
| 11 | ‘ The thing that most impresses me and most encourages my students when I use Streamline is that Streamline is an audiovisual course . |
| 12 | And the meal that followed was a veritable banquet . |
| 13 | The ‘ Diamond Dogs ’ tour that followed was an enormous amount of work for everybody involved and in some ways , it began to break down . |
| 14 | All that mattered was the next time he would see Kate ; beyond that he looked forward with an urgency that hurt to the first time they would make love . |
| 15 | Meantime , all that mattered were the fifteen hundred marching men who , however tired they might be , would still be able to save them . |
| 16 | There was no comfort in that result , a vote against industrial action , even though it confirmed the suspicion that gone are the old ways of fighting the class war that we 've all been raised on and still have the power to excite me . |
| 17 | Typical of the uneasy compromises that resulted was the Ten Articles of Faith laid down by convocation in 1536 . |
| 18 | The fitful progress that resulted was the most the overcrowded state of the narrow roadway allowed . |
| 19 | Not all the pieces have words , but those that do are a potent mixture of mysticism ( Wiracocha was a pre-Inca deity thought to be the creator of all things ) and revolutionary politics ( El Condor vuelve , for example , sees the condor 's flight wrapping ‘ General Sandino ’ , ‘ Che the Hurricane ’ and Allende in a Pan-American revolutionary embrace ) . |
| 20 | Luce tried to speak , but all that emerged was a strangled croak . |
| 21 | Although major types of plant pest are surprisingly few , it is easy to become over-sensitive , not to say paranoid , and assume that everything that moves is a potential threat . |
| 22 | The fight that ensued was a fair fight and he had no idea until he was arrested at Stoke Row that the unfortunate man had died . |
| 23 | Now what I 'm wondering is this : instead of thinking that staying put is natural , and then having to introduce a force of gravity — which then mysteriously pulls on everything to make them behave in the same way — why not start out by saying that falling is the natural thing to do ! |
| 24 | I do n't conclude anything from that either , except that fancying is a complicated business . |
| 25 | In general , those that survive are the fittest — in the sense of most apt , not in the modern sense of healthiest ; in other words , those that are best adapted . |
| 26 | God , that had been a powerful shit . |
| 27 | He had not had a woman for weeks — not since that last trip to the Wilds — and that had been a sing-song girl , all artifice and expertise . |
| 28 | It was ancient , a nest of shining metal that had been the first cis-lunar colony , the first man-made world that orbited around mankind 's ancestral home . |
| 29 | They looked about them a bit hazily and then at the bleeding half-thing that had been the young boy and scuttled into a corner . |
| 30 | It was here , on the ground floor of the east wing , that Louise Taylor had been found , in the same room that had been the royal family 's drawing-room . |