Example sentences of "[prep] be [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The complexity I am concerned with is not that supposed intrinsic property of the text which politically motivated critics allegedly distort ( in biased readings ) and impartial critics transparently represent ( in long readings ) . |
| 2 | If the proposition we start out with is simply that men exist — which , we are told , should be more appropriately expressed as ( Ex ) x is a man — then no doubt sooner or later we shall run into Jones and will be able to proclaim the happy discovery . |
| 3 | At the same time , criticisms which underlay le français fondamental have been made to illustrate the fact that such vocabulary selection , far from being all that linguists can contribute to the preparation of teaching materials , is still in a stage of development . |
| 4 | She sipped absently , so desperate to remember who she was and how she came to be here that the mug was empty before she realised it . |
| 5 | Most of them are directed at girl readers , the assumption seeming to be either that boys have no adolescent problems or that they read only ‘ action ’ books . |
| 6 | Strachan : Showed some lovely touches but seemed to be just that bit too slow . |
| 7 | But now I wanted to be somewhere that had a future and no past to carry . |
| 8 | ‘ When he took me into the lead I did n't want to be there that soon — so many horses have been caught after being clear , ’ he said . |
| 9 | The horror of the memory made it all too easy to choke and scream , but to her relief her performance was cut short in seconds as the door burst open , the light snapped on and she was in Penry 's arms , held close to his chest , and so glad to be there that not even her guilt could mar the joy of the moment . |
| 10 | At the present time , as we have described , the problem with daytime sleep is believed to be only that it is too short . |
| 11 | The scientists who man the climatological observation posts are less cautious than they used to be now that the general theory of climate change has become common property ; government servants are more confident and outspoken ; and , while scepticism remains , no cabinet minister is likely to denounce the theory and the accompanying evidence as hysterical . |
| 12 | It relatively seldom results in marital breakdown nowadays , even when it is discovered by the partner ; and even the temporary trauma induced by the discovery seems to be less that it was once ( there is no real proof of this , nor in the other direction — I base the comment mainly on people 's expressed attitudes ) . |
| 13 | In fact , he was so eager to be off that he would have left it in the street if I had not insisted that he should take the coals to his mother . ’ |
| 14 | Dandelion , the dashing story-teller , so eager to be off that he jumped the ditch and ran a little way into the field before stopping to wait for the rest . |
| 15 | Advertising revenue seems to be , there seems to be sometimes that there is some slight pick up , the advertising associations predicting a pick up there , one or two companies who have been reporting , have been talking about a little upturn in the first quarter of this year . |