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 | ‘ Not that I 'm all that well up in musical matters . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | I was just that some nights I waken up and you know you can actually hear your heart . |
| 5 | 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 ! ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And of course you are right that this must be about happiness . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ She was a dream I held dear , but ‘ t is the woman you are now that I love — sweet and true and courageous . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | And although you 're right that they 've been selling flowers for a long time , they underwent a massive re-fit recently . |
| 17 | She 's just that if she did n't take that potion of mine she would have killed herself anyway . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I did , you 'll have to forgive me , I mean I think for the sake of those who were not at the meeting erm what we should really say is that actually said that he wanted to hear what kind of a parish we are so that he could attempt to match the , the incoming priest with you know the need of the parish . |
| 22 | But it 's a compliment it 's a compliment from the company saying we 've got a looking people that we 're quite that people can you know . |
| 23 | We are multiplication work and there is n't should be tackled and we were very that we can not do this without and therefore we accept the grant grant fifty thousand in these four counties planning service which I would say servicing . |
| 24 | ‘ Yes I was , but we were never that close . |
| 25 | One is simply that you do n't need to have made a record or done anything very much except earned a local reputation as a watchable band playing original material . |
| 26 | Oh I thought oh I , I , I seemed to remember the Whitney Bay bit and I mean I do n't know what I 've done with the blinking programme last year , I mean they 're all in the magazine rack , but I do n't think that one 's there that was terrific that were n't it ? |
| 27 | One was simply that there were n't enough of them , particularly at C : |
| 28 | Teachers in today 's schools and colleges have to concern themselves with a bewildering multiplicity of factors ; some of them were hinted at in preceding chapters and there are more that were ignored because they were not directly relevant to our theme . |
| 29 | There 's nowhere that you see anywhere advertising |
| 30 | if there 's somewhere that that we can |