Example sentences of "[pron] be [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I say , I would like you to be in fairly close proximity to where I am so that you can see what I 'm doing and hear what I 'm saying . |
| 2 | ‘ It 'd be great to be there but I 'm not that fussed . |
| 3 | I 'm really not a great buyer — if I ca n't wear it and I ca n't eat it , then I 'm not that bothered . |
| 4 | I figure that I 'm not going to be offered any more roles as the 41-year-old middleaged neurotic entering a crisis , 'cos I 'm not that any more and I do n't want to play that any more . |
| 5 | I 'm not that brokenhearted and I 'm , no I 'm annoyed . |
| 6 | ‘ Not that I 'm all that well up in musical matters . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm just a broke student trying to earn some money over the summer , and I do n't think I 'm all that articulate . ’ |
| 8 | I 'd heard that American Music Club were something wonderful , but when I saw them at the Grand in Clapham recently , I was n't that impressed . |
| 9 | We went off to go see Husbands And Wives , because one of the actresses in that was going to be in the film , someone I was n't that keen on . |
| 10 | ‘ At Bulawayo we had 45,000 crowds for club games and I made my international debut at 14 , so I was n't that ‘ wowed ’ to arrive in England . ’ |
| 11 | I was just that some nights I waken up and you know you can actually hear your heart . |
| 12 | The story was current when I was there that this distinguished classical scholar , so accustomed to dealing with the textual problems of Thucydides and Greek epigraphy , was somewhat disconcerted on arriving at Bletchley station to be greeted by an evacuee urchin , jeering : ‘ I 'll read yer secret writing , guv'nor ! ’ |
| 13 | But for the moment , that 's not the point — which is rather that those who have been , legitimately or at least understandably , affronted by the pretensions of Olson as poet should not therefore write him off as anything but what he was : an exceptionally earnest and magnanimous man , and a man moreover who knew , as few poets since John Milton have known , what the polity looks like from the point of view of those who administer it day by day . |
| 14 | What matters is that a limitation has been set ; and now if a child brings out a gun , a knife , a rope ladder or even a box of matches you can check with the list and then either stay in role and say " You may have meant to bring that rope ladder , but it 's not here " , or come out of role and discuss the agreed rules of the drama , one of which is perhaps that in this drama there is no recourse to magic . |
| 15 | Directors have sometimes been called trustees , or commercial trustees , sometimes they have been called managing partners ; it does not matter much what you call them as long as you understand what their true position is , which is really that they are commercial men managing a trading concern for the benefit of themselves and all the other shareholders … they are bound to use fair and reasonable diligence in the management of the company 's affairs and to act honestly . |
| 16 | I think it 's fair to say , that we do not all matters , and I hope that nobody 's here that would appreciate that the audit role is an independent role . |
| 17 | Gilbert would probably have done better to base his case not on the child 's moral sense , which was largely that imposed by adults , but rather on the child 's tendency to invest violence with fantasy . |
| 18 | One item on lease is a new in-house laundry which was acquired when high bedroom occupancy was anticipate and its was though that the hire cost of linen would be more expensive . |
| 19 | Would it be done in the first year of a Labour Government , in the first Labour Parliament , or in two or three terms , or will there be an exchange rate mechanism-type growing process whereby we get used to the idea over 10 or 15 years and the Scots can have it immediately because they are culturally and politically ready for it , but the people of the north , who are not that bothered , will have to wait 15 years until they see the advantages that will supposedly accrue to Scotland and then will mount the barricades and demand the same for themselves ? |
| 20 | And of course you are right that this must be about happiness . ’ |
| 21 | And , as always , telling us where you are so that we can keep sending you our mailings and the next edition of The Birmingham Magazine . |
| 22 | ‘ She was a dream I held dear , but ‘ t is the woman you are now that I love — sweet and true and courageous . ’ |
| 23 | Whilst surely representing the pinnacle of guitar mass-production ( 500,000 per year sometimes ) you 're right that only a small percentage seem to have survived in the UK . |
| 24 | And although you 're right that they 've been selling flowers for a long time , they underwent a massive re-fit recently . |
| 25 | She 's not that I think she 'll know how upset she is . |
| 26 | She 's just that if she did n't take that potion of mine she would have killed herself anyway . |
| 27 | and erm , they 're always stuck together , and so I suppose now she 's now that she 's , her friends has separated she has , she instantly separated . |
| 28 | ‘ The essence of the patent for you is surely that you believe the heat is there and if it can be scaled up , as you hope it can , that is something that could have manifest benefits to everybody . |
| 29 | Right , erm I 've actually got down that erm you assumed that his wife was n't a tax pay sorry , his wife was n't a tax payer and you assumed that she was n't working but you did actually pick back up on that later that she was n't that she was n't going back to work after having the children so erm tt that is now irrelevant but it was at the time that you were saying it , that you did n't actually pick it up . |
| 30 | She smiled then to soften any hint that she was annoyed that her mother thought she should be more home-orientated than she was now that she was married . |