Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [adj] that [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 [ The British ] had pressed for some time for a continuation of a combined staff relationship and had only been convinced that we were serious in rejecting this when we moved their combined staff people out of the Pentagon and moved the standing group [ of Nato ] in .
2 If the truth were known , it is only because I have for so long been lonely that I welcome demands for help .
3 so be aware that you do n't want to ramble on too long or this appointment could go on for ever and a day .
4 A further way of introducing some purpose to a day 's sailing is to experiment with different ways of doing things , since you can only be sure that you have found the best way by deliberately trying different ways .
5 Would n't it only be right that she should go , too ? ’
6 I could only be glad that I had never spoken of my plan to Joe , when he was looking after me .
7 Once again we meet to debate and vote on this highly emotive subject and it has always almost , it has already been apparent that it is very emotional .
8 But when I concentrated on the postage-stamp-sized photographs bearing his name that had started to appear , I could no longer be certain that he and The Fat Controller were one and the same .
9 He would have to show all this new treasure-trove to Blackadder , who would be both elated and grumpy , who would anyway be pleased that it was locked away in Safe 5 and not spirited away to Robert Dale Owen University in Harmony City , with so much else .
10 They must just be confident that it is .
11 Er just be careful that you do n't trap your fingers in this door , you two .
12 No matter how hard she tried to make the most of herself Sally had always been aware that she could not hope to rival Paula and the knowledge had damaged her self-confidence so that she always lived with the feeling that people on meeting her for the first time would exclaim behind after back : ‘ Paula 's sister ?
13 And yet it may still be true that he came within minutes of Jerome 's flight , found the man only stunned , stooped close and knew him , for then knowing was possible , and killed him , and only then took thought how to escape suspicion , and came running into the town , to me . ’
14 Even if subjects are deliberately attempting to recall the risky situations it would still be interesting that they are able to do so in a way that makes them distinct from all the other situations encountered .
15 If an applicant is financially eligible , the Area Director must further be satisfied that he or she ‘ has reasonable grounds for taking , defending or being a party to the proceedings . ’
16 Whether they arise as Turing proposed , or by some other physico-chemical process , it will always be true that they can be altered by changes in genes .
17 Do you think that it could ever be true that they would be sufficiently inexpensive that they could be used in most doctors ' surgeries , or is it going to be something which is only used in one or two important hospitals ?
18 There are many documents that can be happily produced at 300dpi and either photocopied or short-run printed and no-one will ever be aware that they have n't been typeset .
19 In laying her reverently back in the grave from which he had taken her , and sealing the murderer in her abandoned coffin , Cadfael had been and still was convinced that he did her will , and restored her to the resting-place she desired .
20 The organisers of the match , which is sponsored by The Times newspaper , will also be anxious that he does not go two down as the public may start to write off his chances .
21 ‘ That ought to be a blinding glimpse of the obvious , and it should also be obvious that it will only happen through disciplined and focused teaching .
22 On the subject of telephone links as the supporting network for the dissemination of these messages , records managers must also be aware that we are entering ( some are already in ) an even more demanding environment where the raw data of a communication , without the man-readable ‘ envelope ’ will be routinely sent down telephone lines to form the record of an activity .
23 As well as being appropriately dressed you should also be aware that you may have been noted even while looking at the agency 's window display .
24 We might both be surprised that they are n't quite all as one-sided as you think they are . ’
25 Now I think it also is important that we recognize that as a university and as colleges we have a responsibility for the sort of environment , the education environment , that we provide our students , but I think we also have to remember that these students are eighteen years old when they come up , they are twenty one when they graduate , and many of the students are older than that , they are graduate students and they are young adults .
26 It also was emphatic that I reported back to him alone .
27 We can eventually be sure that it is correct enough , but never that there is no other equally correct but different translation .
28 But from a practical point of view as time has gone on , most people now are aware that they want to save money .
29 I have … often been worried that we are imposing more and more on a system of collective ministerial decision-taking that was designed for quite a different era .
30 We may often be sure that we can judge by the quality of the drawing or painting , but there are always at least some cases in which our uncertainty is deepened by the absence of the expected signal , that it is or is not intended to be art .
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