Example sentences of "[verb] be [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | In past decades the roof void in most houses has been just that : a black , dusty hole in which to dump unused goods out of sight . |
| 2 | Even though there are signs that the world 's economies are beginning to operate closer together in time terms , nevertheless in the past it has been seldom that every part of the world has been simultaneously in total depression . |
| 3 | Another version puts things differently , arguing that men 's way of speaking is not intrinsically more credible/authoritative , what happens is simply that men can use their socially dominant position to claim linguistic privileges . |
| 4 | And you 'll remember that that the definition of gating is simply that channels switch between open and closed states , they gate open or closed . |
| 5 | The problem he says is only that Mr Tijani turned out to be so ill , otherwise he came as a legitimate private patient . |
| 6 | The reason the process of telling the truth seems less complicated than I 've said is simply that we are n't conscious of most of the mental processes I 've been describing . |
| 7 | The reason that an extremely lenient criterion was adopted was simply that subjects generally gave very little detail about the situations they actually recalled correctly . |
| 8 | All of this should be easily understood when it is realised that the effect of the contract being avoided or frustrated is generally that the parties are no longer required to carry out the contract ; they are excused . |
| 9 | But the conclusion drawn was not that there was a certain contradiction between the pursuit of material and mental achievement , but that one was the necessary basis for the other . |
| 10 | Now what happened was originally that I lost compression on pistons three and four and it worked out there was a very thin channel from piston three to four on the head gasket and erm basically it ruined part of the engine and the whole report said that basically I want a new engine . |
| 11 | He said that one of their reasons for lying was probably that they did not want to be publicly associated with the Carpenter Club . |
| 12 | Well it , when the snow get 's on that it 's gon na break it . |
| 13 | and if er , what they 're trying to do is so that you work say twenty three hours the class contact , you , you ca n't be averaged for more than two hours a week , so you need twenty three hours for the first two terms |
| 14 | In response to Frankish currency reform he began to mint new silver pennies in the 760s and 770s , when London emerges as an important royal Mercian minting centre , if not Offa 's principal mint ; it may have been here that his first coins were produced . |
| 15 | And it may have been here that a Staufen protest to the pope was drawn up . |
| 16 | It must have been then that the two coaches came to light because we moved house in 1925 and quite certainly the coaches were never at the old house but appeared very early on at the new one . |
| 17 | It must have been then that I was blown up by the land-mine , which may well have knocked out Private Prescott as well . ’ |
| 18 | It may have been now that Ermold was returned to his beloved Aquitaine , and favour at Pippin 's court . |
| 19 | Twenty years ago I would have been back that same night , but I 've learned since then that it is rare indeed to enjoy a repeat performance . |
| 20 | At first sight what he seems to be saying is simply that no one is going to take any notice of the conclusions which a rational woman reaches after deliberation . |
| 21 | In more mundane language , what we are saying is simply that a movement to a point along x could be executed in two steps , one along x and then another along y . |
| 22 | The familiar Twelfth Night everyone knew and loved was just that along with a fine performance by the English Shakespeare Company . |
| 23 | There 's much that makes sense ; there 's much that is thought-provoking , even if the thought it provokes is often that the authors are off their trolley ( 'be alert to the strange fact that the end of each century divisible by five has witnessed a major transition in Western civilisation ’ ) . |
| 24 | When , in Britain , it is suggested that the policies of the Conservative Government towards local authorities since 1979 raise constitutional questions , what is meant is not that these policies are in any sense illegal , but rather … that they breach hitherto accepted understandings , albeit tacit , as to how relationships between central government and local authorities should be ordered . |
| 25 | What is meant is really that it is not possible to learn to sign like a deaf person , i.e. without an ‘ accent ’ . |
| 26 | So the really important thing that has happened is not that the official forecasts have been wrong , it is that the New Consensus , having been tried in the balance since we joined the ERM and , indeed , during the past 12 years as a whole , has been found wanting . |
| 27 | What this means is simply that each time you line up a shot in the viewfinder and before you press the button , you should look on it not as an individual shot as you would a still photograph hut as one of a group of shots . |
| 28 | The other guideline which was issued was namely that of capital , where the a accepted the general guidelines which appeared in the county papers and as far as this Committee was concerned , would mean the general acceptance of all those items which appear in that the first year of that capital programme , subject to the proviso that the revenue contemplated and the benefits of the capital programme will be considered by Policy Panel in its forthcoming meeting . |
| 29 | The answer she gave was not that she did n't know Mr Lawson 's stated reason for resigning , but that she found it incomprehensible . |
| 30 | What is theoretically and politically interesting and puzzling is not that it has been defended by the powerful and the better-off sections of the community but that it has been so widely accepted by those who suffer as a result of its continuance . |