Example sentences of "that [be] [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Things that had for centuries slept without stirring , but that were now stirring and waking and might , at any moment , come prowling through the forest …
2 I do n't know whether that is widely understood but I think it 's quite and important feature of our proposals .
3 That is easier said than done .
4 But that is easier said than done .
5 That is easier said than done for cash-strapped City , who are said to be losing £10,000 a week .
6 Now that is not to deny that it is in effect surely of bringing Christians together , but there are certain questions .
7 That is not to say that the more traditional tools and methods are not in evidence in his workshop , but , true to form , he feels that the finished work is more important than the means .
8 That is not to say that the squirearchy is extinct , rather that the squires that survive would not touch politics with a pitchfork . ’
9 ‘ The lack of statistical significance calls for the exercise of caution in evaluating the study , but that is not to say that it disqualifies the study from consideration , ’ said Morling .
10 That is not to say that British citizens in the legal sense have no rights , only that they are not part of the express legal concept of citizenship .
11 That is not to say that such an idea , or something like it , is not necessary in Italy .
12 That is not to say that the novels are unstructured , of course .
13 That is not to say that there are not many other ‘ innocent ’ causes for these two symptoms , but simply that urethritis , which is usually sexually transmitted , makes up the great majority of such cases .
14 That is not to say that sexual partners of people with recurrent candidal infection should not be sought and examined — many cases of treatment-resistant thrush are due to repeated reinfection by an asymptomatic carrier .
15 That is not to say that the other less thoroughbred horses do not have their place in the eventing world !
16 That is not to say that the trivial name was not without some information on , for example , its origin — formic acid from ants ( formica ) for instance .
17 I think most Prisoners would say that the sex problem worried them less than they had expected it to , but that is not to say that it did not worry most people some of the time and some people all the time .
18 That is not to say that day-to-day management can be accomplished by committee .
19 That is not to say that I have n't met some canny little folk , but generally I do n't speak their language because I have never been used to them .
20 That is not to say that some people are not naturally more perceptive , sympathetic and shrewd than others .
21 That is not to say that they may not have doubts , be nervous of , or awed by , the large step they are taking .
22 While reading commercial bar codes and displaying the relevant information is not a very practical proposition for the home user , that is not to say that do-it-yourself bar codes are totally impractical .
23 That is not to say that I disagree with Sir Bernard 's suggestion that the primary health-care system needs to be radically overhauled .
24 That is not to say that Derek Bevan was wrong ; just to say that we saw it differently , that 's all .
25 That is not to say that to get the best results you must be a strict vegetarian but , based on contemporary research , a move toward that direction makes sense .
26 That is not to say that this is going to be all fun , ’ she hastily added .
27 That is not to say that it left no trace , with its demise , and the anti-Modernism of the new novelist was not instinctive or immediate but of slow and uncertain growth .
28 Closing the perceived gap between the UK and the US and Japan , which are believed to be three years ahead , is another aim — though that is not to say that the UK is trailing in all areas .
29 That is not to say that banks faced no competition ; but because it came from mutual-fund companies , savings banks or manufacturing firms ' finance arms , they were slower to spot it and restricted by regulators in reacting to it .
30 That is not to say that the element of voluntariness will cease to provide the distinguishing mark of contractual obligations .
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