Example sentences of "[be] that [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking at the report and using the present criteria for increase in pensions and these are the figures that I did n't produce but er they look pretty bleak as I said because what the pensions can expect next year will be eighty four P for single pensioners and one twenty eight in that area for a couple and then we had look at we have some concern of what happened yesterday in a statement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer who said he is going to extend V A T and also it has now been that instead of putting on half of it in nineteen ninety four he put the full pile at seventeen and a half percent in nineteen ninety four because what was being saved is that if he 's leave the other half to nineteen ninety five it 'll be round near the elections and er there could be some difficulty . |
| 2 | Under it , the only change from the existing primary voting system would be that instead of placing one ‘ X ’ against the name of a favoured candidate , the voter would put ‘ 1 ’ against his first choice , ‘ 2 ’ against his second choice , etc . |
| 3 | It may well be that instead of wellbeing , IT will bring about |
| 4 | And erm er my view would be that either of the north north east or southern sectors could accommodate suitable levels of development to meet local need . |
| 5 | Not at the time no it did n't it bothered me when it was done because I thought you 've probably done something and the outcome would be that so at the time it did n't bother me because I was n't interested in the situation |
| 6 | What is clear is that either through the use of broadband distribution or by means of data compression-decompression , multimedia will play an important and innovative role in a range of online applications in the 1990s . |
| 7 | Another insight that has been coming to me consistently is that instead of beseeching God to undertake certain actions or to grant certain mercies or blessings we should state our faith that He is already and always at work in the way that we desire , so that our petition becomes an expansion of our address to Him , a relative clause expressing our conviction of faith that He is already doing what we were about to request Him to do . |
| 8 | The difference you get with the Gyroflo Oven is that instead of the usual 5 shelf positions you get 7 , each with 25% more usable cooking area per shelf . |
| 9 | The striking point , however , is that instead of merely denying the charge , he had set out to vindicate himself by finding a scientific reason why the world could not be eternal . |
| 10 | The only problem is that instead of sitting across a desk from the one customer , you are talking to hundreds or thousands or even millions , in their homes or their cars or trains or buses . |
| 11 | The result is that instead of trying to recover the often indeterminable illocutionary force intended by the author for this or that character , the actor finds himself inventing someone who might have wished to express this or that speech act by means of the speeches assigned to him in the text . |
| 12 | What has tended to happen historically , with earlier attempts to provide alternatives to custody , is that instead of moving offenders currently receiving a sentence of imprisonment down-tariff , in this case to some form of punishment in the community , down-tariff offenders — those who formerly were dealt with by a fine or conditional discharge — have been given the new sentence . |
| 13 | In fact , the problem for the vast majority of amateurs is that instead of thinking about hitting late , they should concentrate on hitting sooner . |
| 14 | ( The only exception is that instead of ‘ the New Commonwealth and Pakistan ’ , we say simply ‘ the New Commonwealth ’ . |
| 15 | The problem essentially is that instead of estimating the true MPC t α t , in equation ( 3.6 ) we are in fact estimating the composite function in equation ( 3.13 ) . |
| 16 | One of the techniques of cohesion ( see Chapter 5 , p. 100 ) is that instead of repeating a phrase , it is possible to use what are called grammatical words like pronouns " it " , " he " , " she " , " they " , or demonstratives like " this " . |
| 17 | The second disadvantage of punishment is that rather like potent drugs , it leads to unwanted side-effects . |
| 18 | I think the answer is that simply as it who were doing what the name would otherwise have done , erm for the reasons your Lordship has given and , and your Lordship has seen of course that the analysis of the relationship between the name and the agent , erm , certainly as far as Mr is concerned , indeed we said it certainly it follows from what , what article eighty five does , it does n't effect the extensible authority point but and the |
| 19 | But I do n't like the way he 'd er , all this , all about er how you 'll be annually taxed under Labour because the truth is that even under the Conservatives , all the years they 've been in , and all the years they 've been reducing tax , taxes from time to time , indirect taxation increased |
| 20 | Presumably , the reason is that even with a word mask , word targets are represented at two levels ( word detector and letter detector ) while letter targets are represented at only one . |
| 21 | The problem with Destiny is that even at $350 — which will only buy kernel-level stuff — it is still much more expensive than MS-DOS/Windows , and Microsoft Corp is sure to pitch NT at some attractive price point well below USL 's . |
| 22 | One important objection made against this method is that even at its best it provides evidence not of the actual exercise of power but of potential power , and presumed potential power at that . |
| 23 | Erm I think the , the point that 's being made here is that even within the defined areas of authority given to him by the constitution , the president finds it very difficult to act unless certain specific conditions are met . |
| 24 | In some cases , however , such as the Khanty and Mansin the accepted view is that even before their subjection to the Russians their clan system was in decline and ‘ feudal ’ relations were developing , with the emergence of princes and social inequality . |
| 25 | What is surprising is that even after their post-'87 conversion to the gospel of the groove , they still retain a belief in the power of the word . |
| 26 | What is not so widely appreciated is that even after problems of vocabulary and fluency are overcome a more fundamental differentiation remains . |
| 27 | Schmitt 's claim is that even in present-day Eskimo the verb translated into English as ‘ kill ’ is a peripheral modification of the noun for ‘ booty ’ . |
| 28 | The important point , however , is that even in the dark days of May 1940 the Home Office was very reluctant to destroy the fascist movement , and the Security Service joined the campaign to intern Mosley and the most important members of the movement only after information had been acquired which suggested secretive behaviour and links with potentially treasonable behaviour . |
| 29 | ‘ What I 'm saying is that even in this room you 're not safe . |
| 30 | There are currently only two workplace nurseries in the North — Queen 's University and the Royal Victoria Hospital — but the irony is that even in this extremely limited provision most women workers can not afford to use these facilities . |