Example sentences of "that be an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could not that be an example for the flying service , the Royal Air Force ? |
| 2 | Would not that be an enormous and unfair burden on the NAO ? |
| 3 | ‘ Now would n't that be an expensive pity ? ’ |
| 4 | If that 's something you want us to is it something you would that be an advantage to you . |
| 5 | Erm but will you make , be able to make much profit on the on your old Chiswick house to be able to buy the Weybridge one , will that be an economic move ? |
| 6 | Could that be an indication that you are n't in fact giving the public what they want ? |
| 7 | That being an impossible expectation , I went off on a tack and remarked that he 'd been lucky , as a politician , that he was also a natural entertainer . |
| 8 | One reason why the Egton Bridge Show not only survived but is , in fact , growing is that being an isolated rural area , well away from any big industrial towns , there was not a mass exodus in the nineteenth century . |
| 9 | I thought this a stupid attitude , rather as if people sitting comfortably in a first-class railway carriage should complain that being an engine driver was a filthy occupation . |
| 10 | And that being an intelligent man you planned the murder to divert any suspicion from yourself to someone who had some sort of grudge against Brian Harley or Derek Jefferson . ’ |
| 11 | It misses the point that being an effective teacher , leading students to a measure of intellectual and professional independence such that they are able to articulate with others their own viewpoint , is a major achievement . |
| 12 | He did n't know much about Islam but he was aware that being an imam was a bit like being a Vice-president for Life . |
| 13 | We know ( and children know ) that pollution is damaging ; that children in Victorian schools were subject to rather repressive regimes ; that the slave trade was a bad thing ; that being an Ancient Briton after the Romans invaded was n't nice . |
| 14 | On the question of low pay , there is a point of view which some hold , that being an area of low pay attracts , help attract inward investment , and I ca n't deny that certain , not all , but certain companies certainly take into consideration . |
| 15 | If this was what Mandy happily referred to as romance , she decided that being an intern at a busy inner-city hospital was marginally less stressful . |
| 16 | When it was pointed out that he would need a telescope to see it from there , he replied that being an ex-naval man , he never looked at anything without the use of a telescope . |
| 17 | as if that were an omen , the race itself went just as badly and after nine laps Jackie had to come in to change a deflating tyre . |
| 18 | She raised her glass and sipped , as if that were an act so casual , so ordinary , that death could n't possibly accompany it . |
| 19 | Er , what I would prefer to do is to er listen to the amendment put forward by the as if that were an amendment to the adoption minute since there 's nothing to be adopted at the moment , erm I will then speak on that amendment , well I would probably speak against it erm at that point er there could be a vote on that amendment line by line . |
| 20 | Little wonder there was ‘ intellectual disorder ’ — if that is the correct word for daily thought stymied by explicit threats of destruction ; ‘ a state of mind fundamentally disturbed ’ — if they are the mots justes for those who doubt whether they will be able to put their professional training into practice ; ‘ bordering on the neurotic ’ — if that is an accurate description for lives lived under the fear of total extinction in the mushroom cloud . |
| 21 | That is an unfair responsibility to impose on institutions that will not want to retain holdings in all 10 authorities . |
| 22 | That is an important concession but one which will be wasted if the Government does not accept that part it now has to play . |
| 23 | I could see the outline of the soldier in front of me , at least that is an improvement on yesterday evening 's march . |
| 24 | When someone notices the Chancellor 's announcement of a tax cut that is a perception ; when they approve or disapprove , that is an attitude . |
| 25 | Therefore , if the Government can finance its expenditure without taxation by some other method , namely through inflation , by creating the additional spending power and infusing it into the economy , that is an ideal solution to an insoluble problem — how to increase public expenditure faster than the rate of increase of the national income without the rest of the community having to surrender any claims or expectations . |
| 26 | That is an easier situation to handle . |
| 27 | The film , set on the beaches , in the bars and discos and in the shabby tourist rooms of downtown Acapulco , is distinguished by a central performance from Jackie Burroughs ( also one of the directors ) that is an astonishing tour de force of which it is impossible to speak too highly . |
| 28 | But that is an increasingly irrelevant justification for present attitudes . |
| 29 | That is an odd prescription from an apostle of efficiency : you pay your most productive farmers not to produce . |
| 30 | Of course , doctors might be prepared to stretch those definitions in order to bring such cases within diminished responsibility , but that is an unsatisfactory basis on which to reform the law , and it provides the defendant with no legal protection against a murder verdict . |