Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] be [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | My Dear Boy , my greatest fear is not that I shall never again touch you , but that when I return I shall no longer be able to hear your voice . |
| 2 | The problem with states of this kind is not that they exclude all organised groups , as the doctrine of Napoleonic administration says they should , but that they exclude unequally and grant access and favours to certain privileged groups . |
| 3 | The important truth about this story is not that Zacchaeus had a change of heart as though he had suddenly decided that the way back to God was through good works of charity . |
| 4 | Reflection on ( 61 ) reveals that the ordinal adjective first implies that there were none before that time : the meaning of this sentence is therefore that " no one had ever dared insult me before " . |
| 5 | The most important finding from this study was simply that drivers were able to comfortably give ratings of subjective risk . |
| 6 | The explanation for this effect is presumably that the very early events in the cascade of memory formation involve electrical activity within the neurons and that the immediate shock disrupts this process ; by the time the delayed shock is given , however , the cascade is already past this phase , and is no longer vulnerable . |
| 7 | The other is that latent inhibition does indeed result from a loss of stimulus associability but that the mechanism responsible for this loss is not that that underlies habituation . |
| 8 | The more usual version of this theme is simply that one has a visual image of the part of the body touched . |
| 9 | The reason for this difference is probably that the one wishes to justify cuts in welfare expenditure whereas the other is aiming for more direct state control of industry . |
| 10 | The public reaction was generally that parents and doctors should decide . |
| 11 | My hon. Friend is right that we have the most generous system in the developed world for supporting students . |
| 12 | My hon. Friend is right that this country has the best regulatory system for reducing real phone charges . |
| 13 | My hon. Friend is right that the Labour party would be prepared to overrule parental ballots and to take grant-maintained schools back into the throes of LEA control , which is exactly what parents have voted to escape . |
| 14 | The hon. Gentleman is right that there was a change in 1979 , but for different reasons from those he advanced . |
| 15 | But the empirical evidence for this claim is only that the facts can be read consistently with it . |
| 16 | One reason why women are under-represented in this area is undoubtedly that the sociology of deviance has , until recently , concentrated specifically on criminal behaviour . |
| 17 | ( Institute of Public Relations [ IPR ] ) The essential features of this definition are firstly that PR practice should be deliberate , planned and sustained — not haphazard ( like responding to say accidental pollution of a river ) . |
| 18 | The lesson that emerges from this affair is surely that more than ever before , there is a pressing need for complete openness and accountability when restoration work is undertaken . |
| 19 | In anyone 's book that is failure of some magnitude , but the fact for English cricket was simply that there were very few players of real Test class around at the time ; after all , when Mike Gatting , one of the best of the county captains , got his chance he won only twice in twenty-two Tests . |
| 20 | Can I just ask you if your position on the Daily Mirror is still that you 're not at all interested in it , or is there a prospect that you may change your mind when you 've seen the figures from the Mirror ? |
| 21 | The point of this statement is not that it is true . |
| 22 | The surpising thing is not that this is happening now , but rather that it was staved off for so long . |
| 23 | We have the greatest chance ever to rid the world of nuclear weapons now , yet the consensus in this country is apparently that we need to maintain three Trident systems and possibly build a fourth at a total cost of more than £23 billion . |
| 24 | The point of doing all this pre-planning is so that when you come to align columns across the page or to set text next to pictures everything snaps together neatly . |
| 25 | We all think it wrong to inflict pain gratuitously , but our reason for obeying this principle is not that others do . |
| 26 | ( Smart , 1959 ; Armstrong , 1968 , 1980 ; Lewis , 1966 , 1972 ) What is distinctive about this view is not that it takes the episodes of consciousness to stand in such causal relations . |
| 27 | ‘ Neither was I. The reason I intend to keep my stake in this house is so that Kirsty and I can use it when we come up to Scotland . ’ |
| 28 | However , our real weakness is not that we lack the potential , but that we lack the will to act . |
| 29 | The real wonder is not that some who profess to believe fall away after continuing so long but that some last as long as they do with as little as they have . |
| 30 | However , those who operate the law are well aware that it will only be respected to the extent that it conforms with public opinion : the reason why journalists and broadcasters are not prosecuted much more often for undoubted infringements of the letter of the laws of contempt and official secrecy is simply that the authorities are well aware that up-to-the-hilt enforcement of these vague laws would bring the law into further disrepute , and precipitate precisely the sort of clash between government and the press that it has been the British genius to avoid , whenever possible , by cosy arrangements . |