Example sentences of "[adv] be [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | A banquet-hall deserted — Broadstone Station would henceforth be only that to thousands for whom it had for long been associated with happiness — the happiness of the day 's work , the happiness of companionship , the happiness of simply being alive on a fine day . |
| 2 | They just are n't that damned perfect , ’ I said . |
| 3 | He was so dazed by all he had just been through that he could n't think straight . |
| 4 | Is it just been recently that you 've started to get involved ? |
| 5 | I think we have to say that er I would imagine that plans are well advanced for the nineteen ninety/ninety one/ninety two settlement , er so it may not be immediately that er we will get the benefit of what we said to him . |
| 6 | Thus to love or hate you , it may not be enough that your actions in your own interests make all the difference between success and failure for my highest hopes ; but it may be enough , even if nothing you do has any bearing on my projects , that in being drawn to or shrinking from your viewpoint I feel myself in touch with a personality of which the total pattern attracts or repels my own . |
| 7 | It would not be enough that the actor merely intends to have himself arrested , for example by way of protest . |
| 8 | ‘ But you 'll not be there that often , ’ Karr had warned him . |
| 9 | Yes , the miners ' union then was just was n't that that was started was . |
| 10 | But the reason that US business was investing so much in Europe and elsewhere was not that the United States could run a balance of payments deficit financed by borrowing from central banks overseas . |
| 11 | Every fact and circumstance must be considered and it will probably be seldom that any single one is determinative . |
| 12 | This is how it would often be now that she had cast off in her own little ship of independence . |
| 13 | Now is n't that an anonimous vote compared with the first one ? |
| 14 | ‘ Now is n't that the strange thing and me going all the way to Belfast market . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ WHAT surprises me now is not that my generation had so little sex in the 1950s , but that , given the circumstances , we had any at all ’ — Sir Peter Hall . |
| 16 | What Hamilton could see was that the talents of Warner Bros had combined to produce a film that was not so much about the Legion as ‘ about the kind of short-sighted , uninformed and well-enough-meaning men who have to be given an understanding of what democracy really is so that they will not go on and on providing tools for such legions ’ . |
| 17 | The strongest Akali faction by far is now that led by Mr Simranjit Singh Mann . |
| 18 | The strongest Akali faction by far is now that led by Mr Simranjit Singh Mann . |
| 19 | He has n't been out that long . |
| 20 | for experiments with human subjects when X is a verbal label for stimulus A , the important feature could well be not that X is very much more salient than A but that the mechanisms of human memory are especially adept at maintaining verbal information . |
| 21 | It is not quite clear what he meant by this ; the point may well be not that the new kings — Eardwulf in Northumbria , and Coenwulf in Mercia — were of non-royal stock but that they were not of the lineage , respectively , of Aethelred and Offa — but it could easily be construed as a slur . |
| 22 | Perhaps more important , the point of requiring reasons for refusal would surely be so that — in cases of unfair refusal — these could be used as a basis for putting matters right . |
| 23 | The problem for many people today is not that it is too difficult to believe but that it is too easy . |
| 24 | With the increasing impact of information technology the problem today is sometimes that there seems to be too much information rather than too little . |
| 25 | My point here is simply that they do go some way to explaining why patterns of co-residence fluctuate over time . |
| 26 | What is happening here is simply that the additional real money supply is being held in speculative or ‘ idle ’ balances . |
| 27 | The weakness here is not that the assumptions are incorrect but that they are incomplete . |
| 28 | Spend two days in tour fatigues with this new , arena-compatible Nirvana production machine — ‘ I do n't know the names of most of the crew , ’ admits Dave — and it dawns on you that the overriding issue here is not that Kurt Cobain is on heroin ( or is n't , or was , or is and is trying to get off ) but that his wife is a Grade A pain in the arse . |
| 29 | The argument here is not that all children should have access to all aspects of the curriculum . |
| 30 | Again , the precise effects of British imperial domination are inevitably matters of dispute ( Kumar and Desai , 1983 ) and it is important to emphasize that the claim here is not that the level of present development of the regions of the Third World in question is simply the outcome of their colonial experience , but that it is difficult to understand the nature of this underdevelopment and the continuing exploitation of these countries within the international economic order without a grasp of the imperial impact . |