Example sentences of "be [adv] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think the fellers are just that wee bit more acrobatic are n't they ? |
| 2 | Stainless strings are comparable in diameter and tension to nickel strings , they 're brighter-sounding and they last longer , but I do n't think they have the fullness of sound that nickel-plated strings have — they 're just that little bit thinner in the bass . ’ |
| 3 | Knocker had been out that particular night which had been very fortunate for the seaman . |
| 4 | I do n't want to be just that little fulfilment . |
| 5 | I think they must be up that other end cos th there 's about a couple of dozen yesterday I noticed . |
| 6 | I. , N. and R. It may be indeed that such doctors will be willing to say that they would give the very authority for mechanical intervention which the doctors who have so far given evidence did not support . |
| 7 | That house might well have been here that big house just there across th in there which has now been turned into flats . |
| 8 | ‘ There are n't that many girls from there . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I have n't got the money just to go as a traveller , and there are n't that many jobs abroad . |
| 10 | His reasons for using the guillotine in the past , which were appropriate at the time but are inappropriate now , were apparently that Labour legislation was very good and his guillotine motions showed the requisite democratic reticence . |
| 11 | Yet his curriculum vitae would be very much stronger if there were not that one-metre gap between the rival lines to stop him from imposing his physical presence on his opposite number in quite the same way as he did to such crucial effect upon Steve Cuttler in the 1989 series in Australia . |
| 12 | All very ordinary , but I was given the impression that somehow we were just that little bit better than the other families in our street . |
| 13 | Kitzbuehel and Are , his earlier successes , were hardly that last season : Kitzbuehel was truncated because of poor snow and Are 's fine course was reduced to mashed potato by wind and rain . |
| 14 | He would n't mind going for a labourer , though there were n't that many jobs ; nor would he have minded going down to his uncle Henry Yaxlee 's yard to help out with the horses . |
| 15 | There were n't that many restaurants in Piazza della Signoria . |
| 16 | There were n't that many rocks . |
| 17 | At this early hour there were n't that many people on the concourse . |
| 18 | It is rather that little rationality is evident in the decision whether to accord any procedural protection at all and as to how much protection should be given . |
| 19 | It 's most that any prisoner |
| 20 | Well it 's only that little bit of rise there . |
| 21 | Remember to make it clear that , however cross or disappointed you are over something he/ she has done , it is only that particular piece of behaviour you dislike . |
| 22 | It is perhaps that long-term perspective which is at the root of present-day concern over the nuclear arsenal held by the superpowers . |
| 23 | But what is more surprising is not that mechanised transport has had its fair share of false starts but that since the oil crisis many planners have been looking at abandoned forms of transport . |
| 24 | It is not that redistributive taxation is wrong , or should not be a core part of any left programme . |
| 25 | Is not that new manufacturing capacity brought here by the Government 's successes in promoting Britain and the north of England as a location for manufacturing ? |
| 26 | The great fear of China 's leaders is not that western conspirators will weave more plots but that China 's people , enraged by corruption and scornful of slogans , will take to the streets , as they did last June , to demand instant solutions that the government can not possibly provide . |
| 27 | Remember also that the thesis is not that authoritative determinations are binding only if they correctly reflect the reasons on which they depend . |
| 28 | Is not that real success in higher education ? |
| 29 | Is not that one matter that could be rearranged ? |
| 30 | It is not that varying degrees of procedural protection should not exist : the range of licences demands this diversity . |