Example sentences of "that be [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I mean , letters like that are just a laugh , are n't they ? ’ she rushed on with a very poor effort at bravado . |
| 2 | Would that be where the local the local sort of gentry tourists stayed then at the Stenness Hotel ? |
| 3 | In this connection it is interesting to go back to William Smith , the father of stratigraphy , and to find him commenting in his memoir to the first geological map in 1815 : " The edges of the strata … are called their outcrops ; and the under edge of every stratum , being the top of the next , and that being generally the best defined , is represented by the fullest part of each colour " . |
| 4 | Some may be characterised as predominantly transaction orientated : that is , obtain the brief from the client and work as hard and fast as possible to fill that particular job , that being both the goal and the result . |
| 5 | But that were n't a bedsitter that I was in . |
| 6 | but that were n't no fault of your own |
| 7 | There is no doubt that Marlborough , Massachusetts-based Sequoia Systems Inc has all its marbles in the right place when it comes to designing and building fault-tolerant Unix systems — it would n't be an important partner of Hewlett-Packard Co if that were n't the case , but it still needs to get its act together on the marketing and finance side . |
| 8 | That were n't the reason , ’ she snapped . |
| 9 | Cos that er cos that were n't the one he hired . |
| 10 | It is indeed true that balance of payments deficits can be sustained for longer than they could a generation ago ; we would have never got this far without a much worse sterling crisis if that were not the case . |
| 11 | Lastly , it is worth pointing out that that presence in the territory of the country of establishment must be intended to be permanent , or at least of an indefinite duration , because if that were not the case there would be no distinction between establishment and the supply of services . |
| 12 | Public business could not be carried on if that were not the case . |
| 13 | As Lord Justice Lloyd has said , if that were not the rule , no one would safely be able to advise litigants in personal injury cases to settle claims , or know what to pay into court . |
| 14 | If that were not the case then we would n't have er public consultation exercise and ask for people 's views in terms of which routes they support . |
| 15 | It 's it we we took about fifty or so jobs that that were over a hundred thousand pounds , and then we knocked off erm the BES jobs and and jobs which were outside party , jobs where we had n't actually done the design work . |
| 16 | Sometimes she had the strangest feeling he knew her better than she knew herself , and if that were truly the case then how on earth was she to go on protecting herself ? |
| 17 | If that were indeed the case their Englishness was certainly no impediment to involvement in a cosmopolitan , international world in which French speech and culture was dominant . |
| 18 | That was 1870 ; yet in 1881 Frances Mary Buss [ Miss Buss and Miss Beale/Cupid 's darts do not feel/How different from us/are Miss Beale and Miss Buss ] could say ‘ There is now no such thing as a ‘ woman 's education question ’ , ’ even if that were only a half truth . |
| 19 | I 'd be so grateful if that were still an acceptable fee . |
| 20 | And tha , that is invariably a problem . |
| 21 | So it was believed that a pronunciation change in one word would be followed by changes in all similar words — that there are laws of language evolution — and that is generally the case . |
| 22 | That is effectively the official Home Office ceiling . |
| 23 | Most people prefer the total look to be soft and natural without some of the extravagances and hard colours of younger-style make-up , but that is partly a matter of personal taste and overall style . |
| 24 | That is partly a result of City pressure to perform . |
| 25 | That is partly a technical and a psychological matter . |
| 26 | The reason for that is partly the attitude of the people involved ; they will identify with individual cows and know them . |
| 27 | Changing that is partly the job of recently headhunted former Oracle staffer John Spiers , now marketing director for Northern Europe . |
| 28 | Changing that is partly the job of recently headhunted former Oracle staffer John Spiers , now marketing director for Northern Europe . |
| 29 | Few people will dispute that that is largely a result of the legislation that we passed to reform industrial relations . |
| 30 | Italian food has a reputation for being a dieter 's foe — but that is largely the fault of all-you-can-eat pasta pig-out places which pile on the Bolognese sauce . |