Example sentences of "that [vb mod] [adv] be [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old master-spy , William Casey , was said , not least by North , to have masterminded both the Iran and contra operations , and that may well be true of the broad canvas ; but the marks are those of an enthusiastic amateur in espionage , a man who had learnt his craft of secret agent more from the cinema than from the CIA handbook . |
| 2 | That may still be true of the set-piece studio interview — though even there the prior indication of ‘ lines of questioning ’ is by no means unknown ( and the viewer would probably be astonished at the general closeness of the atmosphere that prevails in the green room afterwards ) . |
| 3 | While that might also be true in Britain for people with such sought-after qualifications as physics , Kurt pointed out that that was the norm in East Germany . |
| 4 | That might just be possible in countries with zero-growth populations , but in the fecund Third World the result would be the equivalent of the ancient Saxon custom of gavelkind , in which the inheritance was divided equally among all the sons . |
| 5 | There 's Robin Smith , who 's moved a little straighter in fact , you ca n't call him silly point now , he 's more of a silly mid-off , on that 's sort of line , and he 's about three yards on bat , two men out , deep on the leg side , there 's tough on the who 's hoisted that one away on the leg side , I think that could well be safe for , who 's chasing wicket , two bounce it 's over the rope , and four more runs to , he 's kept up his one hundred per cent boundary rate , moves on to twenty , five fours , and it , again , his eye very much on that short leg side boundary and Tufnell and Gooch they 're having further consultations and that leg side field being adjusted again . |
| 6 | That could only be upset by pig-headedness in the Gulf or dumb-mindedness in Washington . |
| 7 | That would also be true of the rules applicable to local communities particularly dependent upon fishing and industries allied thereto referred to in Annex VII to the Hague Resolution 1976 ( ‘ the Hague preferences ’ ) , the reserved coastal zone , the carefully balanced fisheries mechanisms set out in articles 156 to 166 and 346 to 353 of the Act of Accession 1985 and the effort made by the member states with regard to the restructuring of their fishing fleets pursuant to the Community 's multiannual programmes . |
| 8 | By this means soils , that would normally be resistant to all but the most aggressive chemicals , can be removed by light cleaning methods |
| 9 | It is difficult to believe that every time Tinbergen presented a model bill to a chick his activity coincided with a third , unobserved variable that was really signalling to the chick to start pecking ; that would however be possible for the natural observation that chicks peck when their parent arrives . |
| 10 | ‘ Ian Wright is back as well so that can only be good for our chances at Anfield . ’ |
| 11 | That can only be good for the efficiency of the debt advice industry and thus for debtors as a whole . ’ |
| 12 | But at least a lot of players have sampled international competition at their own level and that can only be good for the game . |
| 13 | He 's blossoming and that can only be good for us . ’ |