Example sentences of "that be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over and above that are the various assurance schemes designed to offer as near as possible a guarantee of quality , safety , wholesomeness and implied animal welfare in the whole process in much the same way as the lion 's stamp once guaranteed eggs in the pre-Edwina Currie days . |
| 2 | Had that been the giant eel ? |
| 3 | Might not that be the greatest thing ? |
| 4 | And would that be the first camp buildings on Hoy or |
| 5 | Also , would it be wise to say Im not THE ( or should that be the other way round ; - ) ) ? |
| 6 | Or would that be the final admission that everything in Paradise is not what it 's cracked up to be ? |
| 7 | For instance you 've got a , you 've got er staff here , half of them are women , would that be the same situation in schools in there ? |
| 8 | But would that be the same as ten to the nought point seven five . |
| 9 | Would that be the same ? |
| 10 | And let that be the last of Reading for oh , at least another year … next ! |
| 11 | Will that be the last one ? |
| 12 | Shall we , if I go up and hand stuff down will that be the easiest way of doing it ? |
| 13 | ‘ Sir , would that be the honey-glazed Virginia ham or the Down-Home Hickory-Smoked ? ‘ |
| 14 | They accepted that Massingham had gained his promotion on merit although they were not so naive as to suppose that being the elder son of a peer did any man harm . |
| 15 | That being the emphatic view of their Lordships , it would , we think , be quite wrong in effect to re-import into the offence the necessity of proving what amounts to absence of consent on the part of the owner by saying that the word ‘ appropriates ’ necessarily means some action contrary to the authority or interests of the owner and that that is one of the requirements which the prosecution must prove . |
| 16 | There were complaints of inordinate delay such as to make a fair trial impossible ; that regulation 7 notices were served far too late ; that the police officers were not interviewed until a year later , that being the first time that they were notified of any specific allegations against them . |
| 17 | That being the first reason , the second reason is because it would put an intolerable burden of security on us . |
| 18 | Sophie was after all thirteen , and it 's a rare contemporary child — especially born to parents in the communicative arts , that being the only umbrella heading under which both Lou and myself could suitably cluster : though he saw , probably rightly , greater sensibility and sensitivity in a Bloch quartet than he did in a Sunday Times editorial — who can expect both parents to live permanently and companionably together . |
| 19 | Haslam admits that being the focal point of all the national publicity that inevitably surrounds the British coal industry is not something that he relishes . |
| 20 | The Court of Appeal held that both claims could not succeed and disallowed the first ( that being the smaller claim ) . |
| 21 | ‘ If that were the only stumbling-block , I 'd put all my weight behind you if it came to a showdown with the pater . |
| 22 | he would not commit conversion by making jam of strawberries if that were the only mode of preserving them . |
| 23 | If that were the only such delay of which I knew , I would accept that there had simply been an oversight , but I am afraid that , in the circumstances , I can not accept that . |
| 24 | Presumably , this means the requirement which the exchange or clearing house would have in respect of a customer 's position if that were the only open position which the dealer has with the exchange . |
| 25 | Some of us felt that , you know , the fifty percent , if that were the crucial figure , and doubling the food poisoning for instance , might have been , might be a more snappy headline . |
| 26 | That were the same kind o' place : they called it the Six Mile House . |
| 27 | That is the fruitful ambiguity on which the new fiction was based . |
| 28 | And you dropped off , well that that is the other important thing is n't it because part of the feedback is you know am I interesting everybody you know ? |
| 29 | That is the other crash helmet . |
| 30 | and that is the other two pound I owe you , leaving me three . |