Example sentences of "that be [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it becomes clear that Krashen is not thinking of theory in general , that is to say of a theoretical perspective on pedagogy , but of a theory in particular which can be applied directly ; not , therefore , of the process of referring actual problems to abstract ideas but the process of making practice conform to a preconceived conceptual pattern . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , yes : two sources actually ; a dry extract of nux vomica — that is to say of the ground-up seeds of the plant ; this contains about five per cent strychnine ; and a preparation known as liquor strychnine hydrochloride which contains about one per cent of the hydrochloride . ’ |
| 3 | They beat Middlesbrough three two er three one rather , three one on their own ground in the first round er of the first leg that is to say of the er four matches in this particular round of the competition . |
| 4 | In these circumstances I think that Darwin can rest quietly in his grave , that is to say of the acidulous palaeontologists have n't already been trying to dig him up to prove something . |
| 5 | That is assuming of course that you would then go b much beyond the f the fourteen hundred figure which has been identified . |
| 6 | And what kind of family is it that is composed of nearly two thousand members ? |
| 7 | Initially , all that is required of volunteers is for them to go along to a clinic where a small sample of blood is taken . |
| 8 | If a class teacher is unduly censorious about reading difficulties or if a parent who , in school , listens to children reading but shows impatience , all that is required of management is the gentle touch . |
| 9 | Down country lanes , through forty shades of green — an Ireland that is cleansed of guns and death |
| 10 | First , ‘ payment by results ’ demeaned education and reduced it to a mere cramming exercise in which all that is expected of pupils is a capacity for recall . |
| 11 | There should be delegation of authority according to the results required , ie. a subordinate must be given sufficient authority to do all that is expected of him . |
| 12 | All that is known of Larkin 's domestic life derives from the parish registers of St Anne 's , Blackfriars , where between 1612 and 1615 the baptisms and burials of three of his children are recorded , and from his will , in which he mentioned his wife and young daughter , both named Mary . |
| 13 | All that is known of medieval warfare suggests that Lothar and his men would not have been sleeping after dawn — least of all when they knew that battle was imminent — and that Lothar 's scouts would have kept him well informed of his brothers ' moves . |
| 14 | In these lines ‘ the primal sympathy ’ seems to represent all that is left of the relation between Man and Nature ; ‘ the philosophic mind ’ , on the other hand , is a direct reference to Roman Stoicism . |
| 15 | And every residential social worker knows that I am not exaggerating when I say that after a death has occurred — often alone or with one of us holding the dying resident 's hand — the family will descend like vultures , demanding a complete inventory of all their belongings , ransacking their personal clothes for valuables , and insisting on receiving all that is left of the petty cash . |
| 16 | DEVASTATION : Smouldering ruins are all that is left of the spot where the doomed Israeli jumbo jet sliced through a block of flats in Amsterdam . |
| 17 | The remains are all that is left of a monastery which was founded early in the 11th century . |
| 18 | Gradually the expelled layers move off and fade away , while all that is left of the star is the small , dense core , which is at a high temperature and is amazingly ‘ heavy ’ . |
| 19 | Apart from the finds , these represent all that is left of the excavated site , and so are extremely important ; they also represent the investment in the excavation from a financial point of view , which may have cost a considerable amount of money , and it is therefore usual to duplicate them , storing one copy far away from the original records in case of accidents . |
| 20 | In April 1988 , Swan Hunters Ltd , which includes all that is left of Tyne shipbuilding , had some 3000 employees . |
| 21 | ‘ All that is left of the Sakkratians ’ science , ’ he said . |
| 22 | The street is in three parts : Market Street , because there was once a market ; Church Street , because of the Church of King Charles the Martyr , built at the Restoration ; and Arwenack Street , because it leads eventually to Arwenack House , all that is left of the home of the Killigrews , a mixed bag of soldiers , dramatists , pirates and entrepreneurs , who founded the town and built the church . |
| 23 | HEARD about the Skoda that 's made of concrete and runs on uranium ? |
| 24 | Erm that 's thinking of a steady speed . |
| 25 | So that 's that 's what gradient is erm that 's thinking of something very solid like a hill . |
| 26 | All that 's left of me is a tiny cone-shaped pile of dust — and that 's blown away by the whirling wind of the dance . |
| 27 | ‘ I want to sail Masquerade south before the hurricane season , so I 'm going to need all that 's left of this summer to repair her . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ So that 's all that 's left of her , ’ he said . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's strange to think that pile of tapes is all that 's left of Nicola 's life , is n't it ? ’ |
| 30 | All that 's left of the Glynn acres . ’ |