Example sentences of "[that] be [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh its its its chronic , Tracy and Yvonne take hundreds of calls that are nowt to do with us , we 've what was it , we had complaints and discipline on on Friday afternoon , they wanted Superintendent J Smith and complaints and discipline on Friday afternoon , she were just gon na transfer it and Jim walked in so we just had a phone call for you he said |
| 2 | The powers that be at the Tate tend to be more interested in ‘ the modern ’ than in the British tradition , so many fine or interesting British paintings are rarely if ever displayed , and to get through to those that are one has to wade one 's way through off-putting modernist rubbish , with the risk of tripping over artistic piles of bricks or tearing your clothes on sharp bits of dustbin sculpture . |
| 3 | The complex includes a cafe and a climbing shop , but it 's the walls that are something special . |
| 4 | But let's look first at the visible problems , realising the need for fun , not for a fruitless day 's digging or waiting around for ferrets that are none too likely to return to the surface once allowed underground . |
| 5 | Well there 's only look like two that are anything discussing that film about the lambs whatever it 's called with Jodie Foster , the rest did n't look very interesting but you may feel differently . |
| 6 | And the ones we saw in Marks and all that were nothing were they ? |
| 7 | You know very often , in fact usually the best way of working things out is to go right back to the beginning is n't it , it , to start off at square one and the trouble is sometimes we want to start in the middle , we want to pick it up where we think we can come in and it does n't work that way , we 've got to go right back to the beginning , and what is it at the beginning , well we look to see how God , what God 's plan and his purpose for us is , how God made us , it tells us there in the book of Genesis in the first chapter in verse twenty seven , that God created us to be like himself and you 've got to look in the mirror and I 've got to look in the mirror , not just the glass mirror on the wall , but into the mirror of ourselves and realise we do n't have to be intellectuals , we do n't have to be astute observers , but even the very cursory of glances will show to us that were nothing like it , if God made you and me to be in his image , then something has gone wrong , but that 's how we started , that is how he made us and in making us to be like himself that does something tremendous because it gives to men and women , it gives to human kind a status and a responsibility in creation , he did not make you and me like the animals , no matter how wonderful their abilities are , they 've got tremendous instincts , they 've got tremendous homing instincts , how that tiny bird weighing , weighing less than an ounce can fly thousands and thousands of miles , for the first time and come back , six , nine months later to the very spot where it was hatched out of an nest , now you ca n't do it , I ca n't do it , but for all wonders that God has put into the , into his , to his creative to his , in , in his creation , in animals , in birds and in other creatures , he has done something that marks you and I humanity out above and beyond all his others creation , he has given to us a status and a responsibility |
| 8 | He has taken the off-scourings of this world , the apostle Paul said , those that were nothing , and he has made them into something . |
| 9 | The outcome is that men who have few resources other than physical ones are more likely to commit legally defined rape , whilst those men who possess a whole range of resources from economic patronage to cultural charm are likely to be viewed by the law as ‘ real men ’ practising their primeval arts-and that is something the majesty of the law should leave alone ! |
| 10 | A structure is a potential piece of language that is something like a framework having certain open places that can be filled by appropriate items but not by inappropriate ones . |
| 11 | A tenancy that is something else — that is to say , either periodic or for a term certain but described as a tenancy at will — will inevitably be caught ( ibid per Scarman LJ at 217 ) . |
| 12 | If you talk about crime traffic and the rapid response capabilities we need , particularly themore major crimes like armed robberies that is something air support will give the 3 forces . |
| 13 | She shows that it is possible to enter another culture imaginatively without losing oneself ; more — that from such ‘ grounded ’ learning one can make something new and authentic that is one 's own . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , it has been the recipient of a great deal of hostility that is nothing to do with Snow White moving in on Babar or Tintin 's patch . |
| 15 | The scale and complexity of changes taking place in the field of special needs and the necessary transformation of the teacher-training curriculum imply an agenda for teacher training that is nothing less than retraining and supporting every teacher in the country in working with pupils with special needs . |
| 16 | ‘ I thought it could n't be worse than being made to fight in a war that is nothing to do with me . |
| 17 | ‘ I have yet to see a trailer that is anything reminiscent of the film it promotes , ’ he said . |
| 18 | In 1990 , he re-emerged as a political leader by winning election as its Speaker , a post that is anything but ceremonial , by the narrowest of margins . |
| 19 | The information about God and his will which the Christian receives through reading the Bible calls for a tough response that is anything but sentimental . |
| 20 | Michael Middleton might argue ‘ that Minton is aware of man , … in relation to nature , to his self-constructed civilisation , to the passing moment , ’ but his failure to establish for his figures a setting that is anything more than a backcloth , limited the humanism inherent in his work , as well as its social or political relevance . |
| 21 | They can , therefore , evoke a defensive , sometimes hostile , response from teachers that is anything but conducive to creative effort in the direction of curriculum improvement . |
| 22 | For DNA molecules , ‘ what it takes to be in the world ’ comes to have a meaning that is anything but obvious and tautological . |
| 23 | Putting more money into the taxi part scheme , a scheme that is anything but everybody in the surrounding authorities , how many of us have had letters from the residents of Gerton or Promberton or wherever else complaining that they want to be included in this scheme . |
| 24 | It 's tacky it 's erm well as soon as they come in the door they wan na walk out and that that 's an overall opinion that 's not just me or a couple of mates that 's everybody . |
| 25 | Yeah every time I get me take-away curry from Ripon I park outside the house that 's somebody comes and he says you ca n't park there . |
| 26 | Exaggeration is an integral part of the Irish storytelling and myth making tradition and any tale will be followed by the remark ‘ sure that 's nothin' ’ from an unimpressed listener who will then proceed to recall or invent an even more amazing yarn . |
| 27 | ‘ For goodness ’ sake , Shae , ’ she muttered into the darkness , ‘ you 're no better than the rest of them — you 're being betrayed by a longing that 's nothing more than physical . ’ |
| 28 | I 'd like to remind him that 's nothing to the idiot he made of himself on All Fools Day last when he found the dead stoat I 'd placed in the pulpit . |
| 29 | Alright , you 're alright that 's plenty , plenty |
| 30 | yes er , and literacy that 's something different . |