Example sentences of "[verb] be [adj] [prep] that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's lucky I was n't in the water then floating , cos that would 've been dangerous with that boat going past . |
| 2 | Although I deeply regret the closures of pits for mainly economic reasons as that creates problems , the increase in productivity has been helpful in that respect . |
| 3 | Where he stands is right behind that number eight ball . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd been involved in that plane near miss on the way to York which would have frightened anyone and it was hard to concentrate properly . |
| 5 | I 'd been welcome in that house for as long as you had-longer , because you were away and I just about lived there . |
| 6 | I 'd say what we can see is some of that heat surviving long enough to escape through a cave mouth , ’ she said to Ace . |
| 7 | Both at home and abroad , the intention is to ensure that the people who are entitled to vote are aware of that fact . |
| 8 | However , it might be that psychiatric opinion would have been helpful on that aspect of the case . |
| 9 | Dr Dichter would have been proud of that piece of depth thinking . |
| 10 | Mehmed el-Fenari ; and he not unnaturally concludes that Molla Fenari must still have been alive at that date . |
| 11 | No real consultation would have been necessary on that score . |
| 12 | There would n't have been many at that time in the morning . |
| 13 | Mr Bond was deemed to be insolvent at the time the bankruptcy judgment was entered against him and the bankruptcy notice was served — ‘ about three weeks ago ’ — but Mr Bond may have been insolvent before that time . |
| 14 | After all , last night could have been worse in that respect … |
| 15 | " I should have been honest with that child this morning . " |
| 16 | It is not that something , anything whatever , would have been different before that instant if the bar had not appeared . |
| 17 | Perhaps yeah I think you must have been airborne at that stage to be er , had such a enormous flame going up into the balloon . |
| 18 | It would have been hard at that point not to be ejected from the train . |
| 19 | None of them could have been happy at that time . |
| 20 | Griffith could not prepare or test fibres thinner than about a ten thousandth of an inch ( 2.5 m ) and , if he had , it would have been difficult at that time to measure the thickness with any sort of accuracy . |
| 21 | Terry er sorry Roger if , if I were interviewing for posts , I would appoint , and you know full well I would , the people that I thought were best for that job . |
| 22 | It is unlikely to have been the work of Asclepiodatus , who can scarcely have worked for Chlothar before 613 , given his association with Childebert II , and is equally unlikely to have been active after that date . |
| 23 | The premise of much of what follows is contrary to that view and is based on the view that to separate the ‘ educational ’ from the ‘ management ’ processes of schools is a fundamental misconception — at odds with the British educational tradition , with what is actually happening in other countries and even with its own origins in industrial and commercial practice . |
| 24 | What seems to have happened is that at that moment the water table in the Rift Valley fell , Lake Tocarno became isolated from the rest of the rift . |
| 25 | ‘ Was that why you told Danny she shaved ? ’ asked Camille , who had been present on that occasion . |
| 26 | He had been best man at their wedding — a formidable pre-nuptial agreement had been necessary for that capitulation — and had carried out his duties with a mixture of incompetence , vulgarity and irreverence which , as she occasionally enjoyed telling Norman , had spoilt for her the memory of her big day . |
| 27 | As noted in an earlier chapter , the Irish republican population had been hyper-sensitive about that body of men with its ruthless reputation . |
| 28 | Elise 's parents had been involved in that accident , too , and it was only after the two cousins lost their families that they became so close . |
| 29 | What quirk of the feminine psyche had been responsible for that decision ? |
| 30 | But by now I was crazed with the idea of doing something for this woman that retained some shred of playfulness to it , so she could think to herself : ‘ All in fun , all in fun ’ , and yet which conveyed the full force of the idea that I had been alone in that office that weekend with a huge erection thinking of her . |