Example sentences of "be [adv] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gaston and Mound are right that in taxonomy , as in science in general , the drive comes from individuals . |
| 2 | A banquet-hall deserted — Broadstone Station would henceforth be only that to thousands for whom it had for long been associated with happiness — the happiness of the day 's work , the happiness of companionship , the happiness of simply being alive on a fine day . |
| 3 | It is right that in the negotiations , which must remain confidential , they should seek to prevent us from going too far too soon . |
| 4 | It is only that by doing so , the accounts are reflecting the economic reality more closely . |
| 5 | If God had so wished , he most certainly could have created duplicate worlds ; it is only that in so doing God would have acted without a sufficient reason , and this would be contrary to his nature . |
| 6 | If a circular cylinder of orthotropic symmetry is used with axis along 3 , the apparent shear modulus to insert in Equation ( 5.3 ) is so that for this geometry a unique value for is unobtainable . |
| 7 | The experimental limit on A given later in Section 11.5 is so that on Earth the acceleration due to the cosmological term is about 10–22 times that due to the gravitational pull of the Sun . |
| 8 | What matters is that a limitation has been set ; and now if a child brings out a gun , a knife , a rope ladder or even a box of matches you can check with the list and then either stay in role and say " You may have meant to bring that rope ladder , but it 's not here " , or come out of role and discuss the agreed rules of the drama , one of which is perhaps that in this drama there is no recourse to magic . |
| 9 | The implication is obviously that over time the proportion of the portfolio devoted to government securities is slowly increasing . |
| 10 | It is just that in that particular situation he had to act as he did , and to have acted differently would have meant that he would have been in the wrong though not for the same reason . |
| 11 | ‘ The reason for this is just that in these matters custom makes us reason and judge so quickly , or rather we recall the judgments previously made about similar things ; and thus we fail to distinguish the difference between these operations and a simple sense perception ’ . |
| 12 | It is just that in Scotland it is far more obvious . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ It is just that after much brainwork in Rome I have thought to give myself a little holiday on this famous Capri Island . ’ |
| 14 | It 's just that at the time it all seemed so beautiful and important , it was like some kind of historical event . |
| 15 | No , I did n't mean that , it 's just that on the telly you look so … so … ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It 's just that in life we believe in doing what you want to do . |
| 17 | It 's just that in these times … ’ |
| 18 | It 's just that until now , their efforts have been pretty much restricted to the dreary business of pointing out female ‘ sexism ’ . |
| 19 | It 's just that after four long , very long , years , a little light seems at last to be discernible through the gloom . |
| 20 | Most tied cottages are located on farms rather than in the village itself , so within the village the most important housing mix is usually that between privately owned and local authority housing . |
| 21 | When we turn from labour supply to labour intensity , the contrast made by historians is usually that between pre-industrial work rhythms and those of the factory economy . |
| 22 | The most complete atlas of mechanical properties of polymers is still that by McCrum , Read & Williams ( 1967 ) . |
| 23 | The earliest is possibly that from Leicester ( no. 3 ) , but equally likely is that from Verulamium ( no. 2 ) . |
| 24 | The best known of such a transformation is probably that for turning Celsius temperature into Fahrenheit where F=32+9/70C , or , for another example , a conversion formula for turning imperial weights into metric ones . |
| 25 | The most serious of the plant proposals is probably that from Chile to delete from Appendix I ‘ dead specimens ’ of a magnificent and endangered tree known as alerce or Chilean false larch . |
| 26 | Renner ( 1917 ) argued that as ‘ capitalism is now passing from its industrial to its finance-capitalist stage ’ so the old principle of nationality ‘ the democratic , nay revolutionary principle of the unity , freedom , and self-determination of the nation , is over and done with ’ , and the dominant national idea is now that of ‘ national imperialism ’ , promoted by the ruling classes . |
| 27 | The position in England and Wales is now that in all areas there are two levels of administration , the county and district authority . |
| 28 | It 's simply that on even the sunniest days you are unlikely to meet other walkers in the sorts of numbers typical elsewhere . |
| 29 | It is simply that at one time the ooze covering the sea floor contained shells of animals — and before that did not . |
| 30 | The difficulty is simply that as a co-heir Seia is owner of an undivided share of the whole estate , and the question is on what basis she can recover from her coheir the quarter of the gardens which she does not own qua heir . |