Example sentences of "be [adv] that [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The BBC documentary that alerted people in Britain to the implication of the silicon chip ( Ed Goldwyn 's Now the Chips are Down that we mentioned in Chapter 1 ) ended with the alarming questions : |
| 2 | And although you 're right that they 've been selling flowers for a long time , they underwent a massive re-fit recently . |
| 3 | ‘ She was a dream I held dear , but ‘ t is the woman you are now that I love — sweet and true and courageous . ’ |
| 4 | Yeah but my ones , my platforms are out that I 've got . |
| 5 | Well it 's impossible at the moment , with the media coverage and the erm information about war and the situation in the Gulf , not to touch children , however careful the adults around them may be , and it 's very important for us as adults to not be so caught up , in our excitement perhaps even , about what 's going on and all the razzmatazz that may be attached to the sort of glory of whose ever side they may be on that we forget the extent to which children are very much affected by how they see the adults around them respond to what 's going on . |
| 6 | Reality Therapy involves confronting the sufferer with the reality of life as perceived by others and helping him or her gradually to change the perception of how life should be so that it comes nearer to how life actually is . |
| 7 | If scio was not thought adequate at classical law , the reason can be only that it did not make sufficiently clear that the testator intended a trustee to be legally obliged to make property over to a beneficiary . |
| 8 | Dandelion , the dashing story-teller , so eager to be off that he jumped the ditch and ran a little way into the field before stopping to wait for the rest . |
| 9 | How long ago would it be now that you had it all done ? |
| 10 | About what Margrida d'Arcos 's opinion of her might be now that she knew she had indulged in apparently frivolous love with her son . |
| 11 | This is how it would often be now that she had cast off in her own little ship of independence . |
| 12 | Since it took so long for Dobson finally to take over in Macclesfield , it may be either that he returned to Stockport as Master from some period or that the Goldsmiths forgot that they had appointed Escolmbe , or that Escolmbe himself never took up his duties . |
| 13 | The objectives are surely that we do the Liberal Democrats some real good , both nationally and in this area , in the longer term as well as for next June . |
| 14 | . There has n't been one game we 've been there that he has n't or both of them have n't . |
| 15 | Firstly , nobody , but nobody would want to levy charges until it was a last resort , but if the alternative to levying those charges were perhaps that we had to cut the staffing levels in those adult training centres , then you get a different answer to the question , and I had a meeting about four weeks ago with the heads of some of our centres who 've been asking parents and carers that question . |
| 16 | Brown and Kulik ( 1977 ) were struck by the fact that people were generally able to answer this question without difficulty , the important point being not that they remembered the assassination but that they remembered apparently irrelevant details such as where they were and what they were doing when they heard the news . |
| 17 | Afterwards Jared Tunstall had said to her mama , ‘ It was a question of a little hustler meeting a big one , and if it were n't that he has hurt Sally-Anne so badly I could almost admire the swine for his gall . |
| 18 | ‘ It is since that I studied it , ’ said Greg . |
| 19 | It is rather that he realigns fantasy and fact by using a set of ready-made and entirely artificial rules governing talking animals to explore the workings of a no less unnatural , controlled and rigidly inhuman system . |
| 20 | Similarly , C. S. Lewis 's The Allegory of Love is praised by Kathleen Tillotson for charting the nature and evolution of two " principles " , or fundamental movements of the human mind — romantic love and allegory : " It is rarely that we meet with a work of literary criticism of such manifest and general importance as this . " |
| 21 | So Doris said , Oh well I do n't know what 's on that she said . |
| 22 | Press hostility to this idea was scarcely free of self-interest , but there were bigger issues at stake and it is right that they prevailed . |
| 23 | But Mr Bliss is right that we have to assume that the abductors are politically motivated terrorists — ‘ ' |
| 24 | My hon. Friend is right that we have the most generous system in the developed world for supporting students . |
| 25 | SIR JACOB : It is right that she do n't seem desirous to drown the remembrance of her original in her education . |
| 26 | I hope you do n't mind my telling you , it 's only that I thought you ought to know . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Oh , it 's only that I feel I 've been wasting my life ! |
| 28 | ‘ It 's only that I think , maybe , that it 's more the vice of America — no , not vice , I do n't think , but difficulty — to be moralistic in politics . |
| 29 | It 's only that I have n't been able to get to the bank , being ill and all that , and I have n't got any money for the rent . |
| 30 | I think we have to be a little bit careful about this because , of course , erm the feeling is not that once they 've been in the job for a little while that they are still amateurs , it 's merely that we do n't require them to know a great deal about what they 're going to do before they start . |