Example sentences of "be [adj] that it [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While BT can be pleased that it bought into McCaw at a much lower price than today 's going rate and that it will be difficult for other overseas companies to enter the US domestic market , it will be some time before its investment begins to yield a return . |
| 2 | It is possible that it came from the east of the Frankish confederacy , rather than the Rhineland . |
| 3 | I 'm , I 'm , if there any question over it , the reason why I said ten days I 'm already sitting in London for , until the end of next week and therefore if there were any question , it 's obvious that it came before me , and that |
| 4 | If you know that I have just bought an angora woollie at half price in a sale , it is unlikely that it came from Boots the chemist . |
| 5 | Neither Taskopruzade nor Mecdi gives any clue concerning the date of Molla Arab 's appointment to the Muftilik ( beyond the fact that it is implicit that it occurred in the reign of Bayezid II ) , although both state that he died as Mufti of Istanbul in 901/1495–6 . |
| 6 | His impact was such that it led to further villainy — as the probably gay hit man in the Big Combo ( 1955 ) , as a rapist and murderer in Ride Lonesome ( 1959 ) , as Lee Marvin 's psychotic side-kick in The Man Who Shot Liberty Vallance ( 1962 ) as well as more conventional heavies in Gunfight at the OK Corral ( 1956 ) , The Tin Star ( 1957 ) and How the West Was Won ( 1962 ) . |
| 7 | Such an image had little real relevance to the situation he was ostensibly addressing , although its private significance was such that it reappeared in his later creative work . |
| 8 | I knew it would be a race back to Stuart Street and I was pleased that it ended in an honourable draw . |