Example sentences of "be [adv] [adj] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Probably the most interesting object is the open cluster NGC 2244 , round the star 12 Monocerotis ( 5.8 ) ; it is quite easy to locate with binoculars , and I am rather surprised that it is not included in the Messier list . |
| 2 | ‘ I am rather surprised that he made it public , but we will be taking it very seriously — have no doubt about that — and it will be raised at the Anglo-Irish Conference meeting in London . ’ |
| 3 | I am rather surprised that Martin Frears has found himself in this predicament . |
| 4 | ‘ I am most upset that you have been treated so badly by my countrymen , ’ Gennaro said in a quiet steady voice . |
| 5 | The normal Chinese day starts at 8 a.m. , and of course is 6 days working a week , so we are rather lucky that the course leaders have allowed us to start at 8.30 . |
| 6 | Well I was I 've looked , Peter Davis , North Yorkshire , I 've just glanced down the table at certainly at the er my Greater York district colleagues , and er certainly we er are rather surprised that er you have the impression that you have the impression that er erm we could do without the erm the new settlement , quite clearly erm erm certainly Harrogate , Selby , er and Ryedale , and the County Council , believe the the new settlement is absolutely essential , erm and I think that 's erm erm certainly a matter of agreement between er us and those three districts , it 's absolutely essential . |
| 7 | They are keenly aware that these forays are the latest signs that British broadcasting is becoming increasingly commercial — and competitive . |
| 8 | Government attitudes towards interest groups must also differ sharply , for public officials are keenly aware that groups are ‘ by-products ’ of the ability to develop selective incentives . |
| 9 | Ministers in particular are keenly aware that whereas it is uphill work to gain popular support for specific policies , it is very easy to lose public confidence in the way that crime is handled . |
| 10 | We are keenly aware that a University can seem a large and forbidding place to those on the outside . |
| 11 | In writing this I am acutely aware that the energy of commitment fuelled by the gravity of the situation in the Philippines has once more taken a hold of me . |
| 12 | I am acutely conscious that I have been a source of aggravation to Pa recently over my stupid allergy to vegetables ; it can not be pleasant to see the products one has slaved over summer and winter being regurgitated on to the dinner plate of one 's elder child . |
| 13 | Instead , they think women want understanding , though they are uneasily aware that this , too , is a dimension on which they do n't score highly . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's when things are economically difficult that the time is right to mount operations like this ’ he said . |
| 15 | Cllr Murphy said he had been bitterly disappointed that the report had stepped back from investigating allegations on manipulation of personnel recruitment because it is under investigation by an independent management consultancy . |
| 16 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that a significant number of my right hon. and hon. Friends are bitterly disappointed that during today 's Consolidated Fund Bill debate only one and a half hours have been allocated to discussing pension funds ? |
| 17 | Manufacturers are acutely aware that the only way of stopping parallel trade in the Community is uniform pricing . |
| 18 | In the current climate Take That can do no wrong , but they are acutely aware that their success may not last forever . |
| 19 | We are acutely aware that it will not succeed without much prayer and a mutual pulling together . |
| 20 | But the FA are acutely aware that any such union would jeopardise the international identity of the Home Countries . |
| 21 | But Mr Salinas 's people are acutely aware that lack of competition and cosiness with the state have resulted in the squandering of billions and led to insufficient capital investment . |
| 22 | Some ministers admit privately that unemployment could continue to rise for another 18 months and they are acutely aware that fear of unemployment could hold back spending and delay any economic recovery . |
| 23 | However we are acutely aware that these changes have all meant a loss of the more social aspects of the day , which are very important , and which we all enjoy . |
| 24 | For if , as ordinary people , we are acutely aware that when it most matters the words we say are not thunderbolts from heaven but hostages to fortune , ways in which we reveal ourselves in our limitedness and imperfection . |
| 25 | Our fund-raising has been just a little slower during the current year after the bumper total achieved in 1985 , but nevertheless it has been most gratifying that we continue to receive contributions from so many classes over a very wide area . |
| 26 | She seems to have been wholly unaware that she was in fact queen of a kingdom with a justifiably high opinion of itself — so much so that it is actually supremely ironic that Mary , brought up in one of the greatest of European countries , should have found this one , smaller , but passionately European , so much less interesting and appealing than the kingdom of England , not only Scotland 's traditional enemy , but already beginning the descent into the isolation which it was to maintain for much of the seventeenth century . |
| 27 | And yet … the thought crept back just before she drifted off to sleep … it had been rather nice that he had actually noticed her in the past , and noticed her to such an extent that he was now in a position to compare the woman she 'd become to the girl she 'd once been . |
| 28 | TRAINED observers in the press gallery have been rather surprised that the behaviour of MPs has changed so little as a result of the television cameras ' arrival . |
| 29 | But I am jolly sure that they would not let the government of the day , or their contemporary House of Commons , forget how important it is to supply water and to look after the sewers and drains . |
| 30 | We are most worried that the Burmese Government have disregarded not only the United Nations Commission on Human Rights but the foreign minister of the Philippines who went to Burma on behalf of the Association of South-East Asian Nations but was allowed to make representations only on his own behalf . |