Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe Jeff was right that the man was insufferable and she had simply been bowled over by his formidable good looks and by that quality of heady excitement he exuded . |
| 2 | " Because the Children 's Act in Scotland is just that bit different to England . " |
| 3 | And we must remember our interest in Livesey is only that he might give us a lead to the young girl 's killer . ’ |
| 4 | Until the past two years Drexel was right that the total return from investing in a diversified portfolio of junk bonds overcompensated for the default rate . |
| 5 | Stradling writes , " Until comparatively recently the prevailing view on political education in England was either that it was already adequately taken care of through History , Geography , Social or General Studies or that it was a wholly unsuitable subject for the school curriculum . " |
| 6 | I am aware that there was a steady decrease in the casualty figures and this was welcome to the Harris Offensive and also to the Mighty Eighth , but it always appeared to be that the Luftwaffe were just that one step ahead until , of course , the advent of D-Day and the advance of the Allies on the Continent . |
| 7 | ‘ You have my testimony , sir , and you have Eddie 's too that we — ’ |
| 8 | As explained above , the proposal of the FRED is not that such expenses be treated as an asset , but rather that they be taken into account in measuring a liability . |
| 9 | He was certainly not purporting to compile a representative list of ‘ extra-hazardous ’ activities — though one of the fundamental problems about Rylands v. Fletcher is perhaps that the law has never made up its mind whether the rule is aimed at such activities . |
| 10 | As there were no other masculine arms but Alain 's then that too was obvious and the girl 's knowing and amused looks explained it all thoroughly . |
| 11 | The interest of UE is simply that it follows Gaius , and keeps to the basic wordings . |
| 12 | The individualistic bias that Rawls is accused of by Nagel is not that he rules out such conceptions but that he is not neutral regarding them because he makes their successful pursuit more difficult than that of individualistic conceptions of the good . |
| 13 | There will come the time when he will withdraw the Holy Spirit , when he will be taken out of the world , but as long as the church of Jesus Christ is here that will not take place . |
| 14 | But Mr Bliss is right that we have to assume that the abductors are politically motivated terrorists — ‘ ' |
| 15 | Mike 's not that bothered anyway cos he cos I told him , mind you , he 's in Tenerife anyway , but his mum would have recorded it . |
| 16 | So , and certainly Mao was not that out of line with the left of the Kuomintang at that time . |
| 17 | What shook Burton was not that he would appear to ‘ the World ’ , i.e. the metropolitan thespians , as someone who had failed in a straight contest with another rising young actor , Scofield — although that made him angry and inflamed his competitive instincts — what shook him was that he had no real idea why it had happened . |
| 18 | The most plausible explanation of the demand for the law of Winchester is probably that the rebels accepted the 1285 Statute of Winchester , which could be interpreted as giving all adult males the right to bear arms . |
| 19 | Forster is right that the correlation between the variables is far from perfect ; the data points are spread quite widely to either side of the line . |
| 20 | Despite the super hero 's millions of fans , including Macaulay Culkin and General Norman Schwarzkopf , Mario is n't that impressed by his namesake . |
| 21 | THE extraordinary thing about Laura Ashley is not that it has been dragged back from the financial brink ; it is that it was ever pushed there in the first place . |
| 22 | The position in England and Wales is now that in all areas there are two levels of administration , the county and district authority . |
| 23 | And Charlie Mallender is exactly that : an old shipmate . |