Example sentences of "be [adj] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | In relation to ( e ) , the Consortium needs to know how many IDO claims have already been validated and how many are outstanding that could be affected by the outcome of the Carmel case . |
| 2 | We are sorry that she wo n't be seen by more but it just has not been possible . |
| 3 | We are sorry that Mr Blake is ill , and sorry , too , that he has been misled into thinking that experiments on mice can tell anyone anything about a human being . |
| 4 | If you are sorry that you can not be of assistance , then you should say so . |
| 5 | We are sorry that we can not prove a cause and effect conclusively , but suspect that the hemiparesis could be a reaction related to sumatriptan and suggest that intra-cerebral binding sites of sumatriptan should perhaps be studied more closely . |
| 6 | So we are sorry that we must restrict admittance to handicapped persons able to walk . |
| 7 | A spokesman for Army HQ , Scotland said : ‘ We are sorry that funding has been withdrawn , as it was a facility which was successful for soldiers . ’ |
| 8 | But his mature convictions were the effect of a long organised retreat from the simple dualities of youthful Marxism — capitalism against socialism , bourgeois against prole — and the first of his books ever to see print , Down and Out in Paris and London ( 1933 ) , had been emphatic that Marxist analysis fails to correspond to observed experience , the gradations insisted on by the kitchen-staff of a Parisian hotel or the destitute of an English doss-house being there because the poor want them to be there and not by compulsion . |
| 9 | If these figures are right that we 've been given by the department and I 'm not saying them whether they 're right or whether they 're wrong but well we have to r rely on what we 're getting this is why Mr is sending this lot to the Chief Executive for him to do some work I think it 's very important that it is done independently , not by the independent sector but by done independently . |
| 10 | British sources say they already have the potential power-unit and are half-convinced that the French may already be quite advanced in the aero-dynamics of the bodyshell . |
| 11 | Rumours are rife that several members of the Ministry entourage who toured on Lollapalooza II in the US bowed out , unable to come to terms with Journgensen 's appetite for Bushmills and worse . |
| 12 | I ‘ ave found my spiritual ‘ ome etc etc ’ no official reason has been given for Eric 's sudden departure although rumours are rife that Eric was discovered sodomising Sir Matt Busby 's pet labrador ‘ flossy ’ in the showers at Old Trafford . |
| 13 | Financial markets are apprehensive that the trade deficit has still not turned the corner and a poor figure could shake sterling again . |
| 14 | Foreigners who visit here are aghast that we would even think of gold mining in such a wild and unpolluted area . |
| 15 | But the law does not stop all murder , yet most of us are grateful that it tries . |
| 16 | By then , it is reckoned , all available space in the Library 's existing buildings will be filled , so this second phase is essential for the Library 's growth and development , and we are grateful that funds have been granted to enable it to proceed . |
| 17 | His concluding words were : I do not find it easy to stand here and tell those of you who are deaf that you have had a poor education , and that your children are having the same poor education . |
| 18 | His army colleagues are upset that he has admitted in his book that the government was behind the killing of an estimated 10,000 people in a ten-day crack-down on ’ organised ’ crime in Jakarta in 1983 . |
| 19 | I am assured that it is just a typographical error |
| 20 | I am assured that they are advertised in the Institutions Journal . |
| 21 | The home bowler of the series was Colin Croft with twenty-four wickets at under 19 , and few English batsmen will have been sorry that he played in only two rubbers against them . |
| 22 | and I 'd always been sorry that my dad told us , you know . |
| 23 | But had the Empress been grateful that her brother 's sacrifice had meant her freedom ? |
| 24 | ‘ Yes , and you 'd have been grateful that I 'd gone . |
| 25 | It must be because they are historic that they have been left standing . |
| 26 | But I do not believe that H. Ward Marston 's transfers are surpassable , and am grateful that the surface noise of the original discs remains intact rather than being artificially eliminated . |
| 27 | I am grateful that when the trouble started Penguin kept the book in print , and did so very courageously . |
| 28 | Headmaster John Wood said : ‘ I am grateful that Wedgwood were able to supply the project material for the three youngsters who I feel are very worthy of the award . ’ |
| 29 | I am grateful that the hon. Gentleman pointed out that the closure of pubs , which was a common feature of the industry before the orders were thought of , has nothing to do with the Government 's policy or the MMC inquiry . |
| 30 | Fifteen Para , which has its headquarters in my constituency , was being marched to oblivion until public opinion brought itself to bear on the Ministry , and I am grateful that it has taken a step backwards , but we still do not know what size that step is . |