Example sentences of "[be] [adj] that [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you finish testing , well , as you test you start off with simple numbers and you then start changing some of the numbers , to test other aspects , and eventually you 're happy that everything seems to be working alright . |
| 2 | I am conscious that I speak in parable ; but all that vast organisation and provision which must be made for the old in the coming generation will bring disappointment unless the purpose at the heart of it is one that satisfies . |
| 3 | Amendment of the Irish constitution is , of course , a matter for the Republic , but I am glad that it continues to be an issue that could be tackled in fresh political talks . |
| 4 | Not all meat and dairy products are produced intensively and Singer seems to allow that it we are confident that ours came from animals humanely bred and slaughtered then we are doing nothing wrong in eating it . |
| 5 | Marion , who has worked at the Tour for the past two years and recently took over as Membership Secretary , says : ‘ We are pleased that so many girls want to join our Tour , but we are also anxious to ensure that they have thought through all the consequences and they are sure that they want to be a professional . |
| 6 | I am sure that I speak for all district society presidents when I say that this is just not true . |
| 7 | ‘ My friends are concerned that nothing seems to be happening . ’ |
| 8 | I 'm grateful that you listen to him , and do not treat him like a fool just because he is old . ’ |
| 9 | I 'm afraid that it looks as if the game will be completely ruined . |
| 10 | Well , the gravestone certainly stands by the porch and it does have a hole drilled through it , said to have been where the iron stake was hammered through the stone into the coffin , but I 'm afraid that I agree with the general consensus voiced around the bar of the Sun Inn and the George and Dragon that George Hodgson was guilty of nothing but old age , that the only thing he sucked were his gums , and that the hole in the stone was made for a railing or gatepost . |
| 11 | But we may be glad that she decided to be feminine , as thus she was made . |
| 12 | Yes , I have at last , and the I 'm sure that they lied in their teeth , they they assured me they had written to me after my second letter in March , er in fact , and they said they were going to send me a photocopy of that , in fact er she wrote me a letter in June , so I do n't believe the other one existed , |
| 13 | Wherever one finds pillow lavas in sequences of old rocks , one can be sure that they formed under water in the same way as their modern counterparts , and this , amongst other things , helps to establish the sites of ancient oceanic volcanoes and mid-ocean ridges . |
| 14 | Perhaps we should conduct annual examinations from an early age to be sure that we do as little of this sort of damage as possible ? |
| 15 | ‘ The idea I have in view whilst I make the demonstration ’ may be of a particular right-angled triangle with sides of a certain length , but I may , nevertheless , be sure that it holds of all right-angled triangles if , by not mentioning the ways in which it differs from them , I use this one to stand for them all . |
| 16 | Second , how can we be sure that it provides for an accurate and reliable estimate of that population ? |
| 17 | Why do you think it might be important that we think about what we say and how we say it on the telephone ? erm There is a gap here for you to respond ! |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm happy that she seems to be leading a normal life and we want to keep it that way . ’ |
| 19 | When you think of what birds have to go through — shooters , hunters , in Malta , Spain , Italy and Cyprus — I 'm stunned that anything survives with cats around as well . ’ |
| 20 | While BT can be pleased that it bought into McCaw at a much lower price than today 's going rate and that it will be difficult for other overseas companies to enter the US domestic market , it will be some time before its investment begins to yield a return . |
| 21 | Why then be surprised that they led to incompatible consequences , even if that included different effects upon the distant system B ? |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | I am proud that we succeeded in submitting our Reports on time . |
| 24 | Throughout the proceedings people were conscious that they spoke for all Zuwaya , addressing each other formally as ‘ You , Zuwayi there ’ and referred to themselves collectively as ‘ We Zuwaya ’ . |
| 25 | For some time now he had been certain that he had at last evolved a diction appropriate both to the requirements of classical epic and to the subtleties of the alchemical process . |
| 26 | It is absurd that we have to be tied up in private Bill procedure in order to allow railway developments of the type that we are discussing tonight . |
| 27 | Unless you absolutely hate cooking , or are just too busy , it is preferable that you experiment with some of the recipes in order to keep the diet interesting . |
| 28 | It is possible that it came from the east of the Frankish confederacy , rather than the Rhineland . |
| 29 | It is possible that he contributed to early issues of the newsbook , but there is no evidence that he was responsible for editing it , and nothing in his future career or conduct to link him directly with the Levellers . |
| 30 | Yet decisions about the significance , for entry into higher education , of school-level achievement in public examinations are made all the time — and it is odd that they seem to be made without reference to CNAA , BTEC or the NCVQ . |