Example sentences of "[noun pl] that it [be] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 You can learn so much from simply watching their actions and reactions that it is always worth sacrificing fishing time to spend an hour or so studying their behaviour .
2 The Property Services Agency told the businessmen that it was hardly worth their while because there was no doubt that the German government had every intention of awarding the contract to a German company .
3 But such is the style of most of the arrangements that it 's almost as if the Basie band themselves were performing , rather than a vocal trio backed by a quartet .
4 Such centrally funded schemes have tended to be supported by claims that it is only by central intervention that particular objectives can be achieved .
5 Father Watson had been more than a little frightened by it , and had confided in the nuns that it was more like something produced by some mechanical contrivance , than by a human being .
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