Example sentences of "that be an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Now would n't that be an expensive pity ? ’ |
| 2 | Erm but will you make , be able to make much profit on the on your old Chiswick house to be able to buy the Weybridge one , will that be an economic move ? |
| 3 | Would not that be an enormous and unfair burden on the NAO ? |
| 4 | When it was pointed out that he would need a telescope to see it from there , he replied that being an ex-naval man , he never looked at anything without the use of a telescope . |
| 5 | That being an impossible expectation , I went off on a tack and remarked that he 'd been lucky , as a politician , that he was also a natural entertainer . |
| 6 | It misses the point that being an effective teacher , leading students to a measure of intellectual and professional independence such that they are able to articulate with others their own viewpoint , is a major achievement . |
| 7 | We know ( and children know ) that pollution is damaging ; that children in Victorian schools were subject to rather repressive regimes ; that the slave trade was a bad thing ; that being an Ancient Briton after the Romans invaded was n't nice . |
| 8 | One reason why the Egton Bridge Show not only survived but is , in fact , growing is that being an isolated rural area , well away from any big industrial towns , there was not a mass exodus in the nineteenth century . |
| 9 | And that being an intelligent man you planned the murder to divert any suspicion from yourself to someone who had some sort of grudge against Brian Harley or Derek Jefferson . ’ |
| 10 | The film , set on the beaches , in the bars and discos and in the shabby tourist rooms of downtown Acapulco , is distinguished by a central performance from Jackie Burroughs ( also one of the directors ) that is an astonishing tour de force of which it is impossible to speak too highly . |
| 11 | But that is an unimaginative solution : anyone can give money away . |
| 12 | That is an appropriate metaphor for the club v country division that came next . |
| 13 | It merely shifts dependency , if that is an appropriate term , from the public to the private sector . |
| 14 | I feel that is an appropriate er investigation which is being done by the county and and the district jointly . |
| 15 | That is an appalling situation , but it is made more appalling because it mainly affects students from the poorest backgrounds , those whose parents are on low incomes and who get no financial help from their parents because they can not afford to give it . |
| 16 | That is an appalling position . |
| 17 | The judge , Vice-Chancellor Sir Donald Nicholls , commented : ‘ That is an appalling prospect . |
| 18 | That is an unreasonable expectation . |
| 19 | that is an eight O , one , okay |
| 20 | That is an inadequate answer , given that more than a year ago there was a severe weather crisis throughout the country , especially in the east midlands district where 2 million people were without supplies , some of them for a considerable period . |
| 21 | This is not a performance which truly holds the attention , and that is an unpardonable fault . |
| 22 | That is an embarrassing subject . |
| 23 | Of course , doctors might be prepared to stretch those definitions in order to bring such cases within diminished responsibility , but that is an unsatisfactory basis on which to reform the law , and it provides the defendant with no legal protection against a murder verdict . |
| 24 | Television commentators call it the biggest meeting outside the Olympics , and while that is an exaggerated accolade the standard of competition is amazingly high . |
| 25 | That is an odd prescription from an apostle of efficiency : you pay your most productive farmers not to produce . |
| 26 | That is an admirable use of my time and a tribute to the openness of the system . |
| 27 | ‘ That is an inquisitorial power , which may work with great severity against third persons , and it seems to me to be obvious that such a section ought to be used with the greatest care , so as not unnecessarily to put in motion the machinery of justice when it is not wanted , or to put it in motion at a stage when it is not clear that it is wanted , and certainly not to put it in motion if unnecessary mischief is going to be done or hardship inflicted upon the third person who is called upon to appear and give information . |
| 28 | That is an upstanding promise of pleasures to come , further into the range . |
| 29 | Jack hit 52 goals for the Palace from 99 League outings before the 2nd World War and that is an impressive record by any standard , but he continued with us during the makeshift wartime arrangements and again produced a steady supply of goals — including a hat-trick in Palace 's first official wartime fixture at West Ham ( 6–2 ) . |
| 30 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that that is an impressive increase over that period of years ? |