Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pers pn] be [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , so immersed in one another had they been that when they had looked up it was to find that all the other diners had left the restaurant . |
| 2 | There will be a more intensive look at this problem later , but for now all that concerns us is that the job security component of the company loyalty is reflected at national level in official unemployment rates . |
| 3 | What was interesting about those MPs who were swift to defend him was that they come from the traditional working-class wing of the parliamentary party — people like Jimmy Hood , or Aberdeen North 's Bob Hughes . |
| 4 | It would be tedious to list the types and colours of stone , ceramic etc. used at each site in Britain ; if any picture at all emerges it is that mosaicists made good with what was easily obtained , and that the types of stone used for various shades of colour are predictable and limited in number . |
| 5 | The only thing Father Dolan had been able to tell her was that her mother had died of a fever soon after arriving in the town ; he himself had learned this from the constable . |
| 6 | And the reason why she had been so slow to recognise him was that on the ship he had looked so much older . |
| 7 | The reason it is now unacceptable to say it is that at some point in recent history , rock-climbers held a secret annual general meeting and decided to keep the word to themselves . |
| 8 | So single-minded had she been that she 'd forgotten the presence of Mike and this man . |