Example sentences of "that [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I think problems like that are due to human irresponsibility ! |
| 2 | Every weekend now , tens of thousands , perhaps hundreds of thousands of people are taking tablets containing unknown substances , and God alone knows what the real long-term consequences of that are likely to be . |
| 3 | they knowOne hundred and fifty thousand people in Britain will die from smoking this year … that s equivalent to the entire population of Milton Keynes . |
| 4 | She took out her wallet and found that she had six pounds and ten shillings which she placed on the chair by his bed ; ‘ Will that be enough to be going on with ? ’ she asked . |
| 5 | Would n't that be lovely to be able say well I saved the life of one child in the Sudan ? |
| 6 | It could be argued , in fact , that being indifferent to the consequences of one 's actions indicates a high degree of contempt for ( other ) people . |
| 7 | It would be tantamount to admitting that being close to him made her nervous , and nothing was going to make her do that . |
| 8 | Would it not be a national tragedy if that were all to be thrown away by any alternative team of Ministers , who were wrong about every international defence issue in the 1980s and who carry no conviction in the 1990s ? |
| 9 | Years later she told me that she did not like that book , and I do not know if that were due to a momentary impatience with it or if ( as I hope it was not ) it was a permanent feeling of dissatisfaction , for it seems to me so beautiful . |
| 10 | The young Principal , with a tact that would help ensure he remained a ‘ high flyer ’ , had suggested that he should take first luncheon if that were agreeable to the Minister , and had disappeared . |
| 11 | He says that there should be an increased capital allowance for this year , cunningly saying that it would cost nothing in the first year ; that is equivalent to saying that the bill is in the post , as we all know that it is paid after 12 months . |
| 12 | Allowing for those to be transferred to the higher and further education funding councils , that is equivalent to a cut of almost 50 per cent . |
| 13 | If the accused intends to keep the thing until all the goodness or virtue has gone out of it that is equivalent to an outright taking . |
| 14 | That is equivalent to regarding the particular arrangement of rocks in a mountain , or of bits of metal in a scrap-heap , as " complex " . |
| 15 | It includes much that is central to the accepted body of the sociology of crime and deviance , but aims to introduce this material in an easily accessible form . |
| 16 | ‘ Male unemployment in east Middlesbrough is running at 27 per cent and tackling that is central to the success of City Challenge . ’ |
| 17 | With 50 years of experience and a quality of design and finish that is second to none , Ducal Furniture have an excellent reputation for solid pine furniture . |
| 18 | I feel it is our duty to try to get — I will not say on our side but to work with us — the section of Labour which is national and imperialistic ( Applause ) We have got to get on our side if we can , the section of Labour which recognises that for all classes , employers and employed , production is the one thing to be aimed at ( Applause ) , and that anything which is detrimental to that is detrimental to anybody . |
| 19 | For Article 86 to be invoked there has to be an effect upon trade , for it is not dominance itself that is contrary to Article 86 , but the abuse of that dominance . |
| 20 | But Windows 4.0 will support the full Win32 application programming interface , and will include pre-emptive multi-tasking , and it will also have a user interface that is similar to , if not identical to the parallel Cairo object-oriented development effort . |
| 21 | But Windows 4.0 will support the full Win32 application programming interface , and will include pre-emptive multi-tasking , and it will also have a user interface that is similar to , if not identical to the parallel Cairo object-oriented development effort . |
| 22 | Not only are lower paid workers likely to occupy housing that is different in tenure from that of skilled workers but a certain proportion of the latter may occupy housing that is similar to that of the non-manual group adjacent to them . |
| 23 | Perhaps the reason for that is similar to a reason given to George Ward , my predecessor as Member for Worcester , who represented the constituency from 1945 to 1959 . |
| 24 | All that is essential to his critical insouciance . |
| 25 | In our democratic age , that is essential to the concept of our rule of law . |
| 26 | That is essential to be sure that it can be properly monitored and dealt with . ’ |
| 27 | That is worrying to people . |
| 28 | ‘ It seems that we need to have things both ways : we need a central representation that plays a role in processing every phoneme and every word and that is subject to learning , retuning and priming . |
| 29 | If the English writer stops short of uncritical adulation , and also has a longer memory than the Americans for the loathsome politics that Pound was infected by , that is all to the good . |
| 30 | If this also makes mathematics classrooms places where girls feel more comfortable and therefore encourages them to stay with mathematics longer , that is all to the good . |