Example sentences of "that [vb mod] [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a lot of cellular activity , that may be relevant to behaviour , that does not get translated into action potentials . |
| 2 | Erm but we were encouraged of course for it to go er as your savings and er something I heard that , that may be interesting to you er and er he just said to me in this other club , but again we were talking about , I think we 'd talking politics then and we 're not supposed to do it was a church club . |
| 3 | The tape-recording may also preserve a good deal that may be extraneous to the text — coughing , chairs creaking , buses going past , the scratch of a match lighting a cigarette . |
| 4 | If we were just gon na bolt together the two unions then that may be able to be done in a couple of years or so , but if we 're trying to build something better , then we 're talking about a project that takes place over several years . |
| 5 | Surely that must be obvious to everyone who met him . |
| 6 | ‘ That 'll be light to the trouble I 'll be in soon . ’ |
| 7 | We contested the decision vigorously , encouraged by strong support from outside the institution , but it did bring a significant and positive stage to an abrupt conclusion , leaving us to reflect on what we had learned , and were still learning , that might be relevant to widely shared concerns . |
| 8 | Well there ai n't much that 'd be fourteen to twenty , twenty calories is there ? |
| 9 | Now that could be six to nine months old all right ? |
| 10 | That would be preferable to the ridiculous procedure of considering a station in one Bill and a high-speed link in another . |
| 11 | That would be detrimental to children in my constituency , unfair to parents and unacceptable to me . |
| 12 | If we were to backtrack in the area of supporting composers , commissioning new work and putting it on as public a stage as possible , that would be close to admitting : ‘ Look , a classical commercial station can do the job just as well . |
| 13 | That would be close to his mother , who was living in the Beverly Hills house of his sister Princes Shams and who was very ill . |
| 14 | That would be unacceptable to anyone who believes in open democratic government and freedom of information . |
| 15 | A central European bank could regulate the money supply of all EC countries , but that would be unacceptable to many members . |
| 16 | That would be devastating to my part of the country — |
| 17 | That would be akin to justifying slavery on the grounds of economic efficiency . |
| 18 | That would be helpful to parents in the task of continuing their children 's education at home . |
| 19 | Because that would be contrary to our statutory duty . |
| 20 | However the analogy should not be over-extended : a new State can not be bound by the terms of a trust concluded between other States , for that would be contrary to the incidents of Statehood , including sovereign equality . |
| 21 | According to Pierre Rosenberg the museum will never succumb to showing paintings and sculpture , for example , together because that would be tantamount to sacrificing the traditional structure of scholarship at the museum . |
| 22 | But that would be tantamount to admitting that somehow , by some outrageous quirk of emotion , she cared whether Roman had a relationship with Stephanie … which was unthinkable … |
| 23 | DEVELOPMENT most emphatically does not pass gene values back to REPRODUCTION — that would be tantamount to " Lamarckism " ( see Chapter II ) . |
| 24 | And that would be ten to the |
| 25 | W that would be ten to the six |
| 26 | Now that 's our inter purely our interpretation of the policy and clearly that would be open to challenge in the District Local Plan Enquiry . |
| 27 | Surely I can find one of them that would be willing to — ’ |
| 28 | Erm and what I would like to do , that paper was written by Mr , erm our research officer and perhaps after I 've made one or two general remarks , he could give you the flavour erm of of of the difference as we as we see , if that would be acceptable to you ? |
| 29 | Erm , George and I had that class shared between us , he took them for an hour a week and I did and i if there is a class that any of us had ever taken that would be unlikely to be able to write something meaningful of this kind |
| 30 | The examiner can not give credit for irrelevancy , because that would be unfair to others who have answered only the question that they were asked . |