Example sentences of "[adv] be the [adj] [noun sg] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The road had for so long been the only goal that I 'd given no thought to anything beyond . |
| 2 | This viewpoint has been expressed as follows : ‘ the mere hint by anyone concerned that the law may come in is the surest sign that things are or will soon be going wrong . ’ |
| 3 | By comparison with the rest of the world in the sixteenth century , some parts of western Europe might look like well-organized nations but it was still true that the main bond holding countries together was the personal loyalty that a local military leader felt to his sovereign . |
| 4 | I may no longer be the best thing that Limerick has yet produced . |
| 5 | If the French and the Germans have their way then it wo n't just be the single market that comes into force on January 1 , 1993 ; it will be political union too . |
| 6 | There will not be the great trade-off that my hon. Friend imagines . |
| 7 | It would not be the first time that it had done so . |
| 8 | It would not be the first time that a ‘ bad cold ’ has referred to a political chill rather than a runny nose . |
| 9 | I pause to observe that this would not be the first time that , in this field , Parliament has conferred on the English court a jurisdiction of unlimited territorial application . |
| 10 | It would not be the first time that a Court sorcerer had been lured away from the strong pure magic of Ireland and sworn allegiance to the Dark Realm . |
| 11 | Might he not be playing a far deeper game although not a new one , since it would not be the first time that the man who hatched the plot and encouraged others most ardently to join it , should be the very one to turn his fellow conspirators over to the magistrates . |
| 12 | So the increased interest in fitness may not be the healthy trend that it first appeared to be . |
| 13 | It is a fair bet that the Panama episode will not be the last time that the US will intervene militarily in the region , given the pattern of repeated American meddling in its ‘ backyard ’ . |
| 14 | Twelve , thirteen and fourteen are something I 'm not very aut fait with as regards tutors I 'm not anyway is the interim report that goes out after |
| 15 | The sale in October 1987 of the government 's remaining 31.7 per cent shareholding in BP , Britain 's largest company , showed that the purchase of shares in privatised companies need not always be the risk-free investment that its opponents allege . |
| 16 | An unspoken reason for her attempted escape had also been the growing certainty that this attraction was coming to a head . |
| 17 | This will probably be the last journey that the Society will make in the old DMU 's with their excellent visibility . |
| 18 | The wind that blew tin cans along the streets of the dormitory suburb where I was growing up was the same wind that howled round peak and scar and wrested piccolo tunes from the reed patches below the drystone walls . |
| 19 | As the door closed behind Martha , Mary thought to herself , ‘ This really is the strangest house that anyone ever lived in . ’ |
| 20 | But I would n't wish anybody er to get the idea that we as a union wish to take away what really is the parliamentary privilege that members of parliament have got to have to look after their own constituencies in addition to being sponsored members of parliament . |
| 21 | So if , religion really is the biggest conflict that 's ever been devised |
| 22 | He had seemed certain to become the first black Tory MP , representing Cheltenham — Norman Tebbit had tipped him as the first black cabinet minister and there 'd even been the odd hint that he might one day inhabit No 10 . |
| 23 | It may well be the same story that has come down in two different strands of tradition . |
| 24 | ‘ It wo n't be the first time that people who think they 're in the fast track come across a roadblock and are overtaken by people in what was falsely described as the slow track . ’ |
| 25 | There were questions he still needed to ask and it would n't be the first time that he had taken advantage of tiredness or grief . |
| 26 | It would n't be the first time that a man had lovingly supported a woman through crisis only to discover that when she was strong again his own need was to confine her in a dependent role . |
| 27 | It would n't be the first time that a man has been seduced by female beauty and been left the poorer for his pleasure , nor the first time Lotta has attempted by stealth to deprive me of something which I value . ’ |
| 28 | Today is the first day that tickets are on sale to non-members so its best to ring up and see whats left . |
| 29 | and it 's a case of er if you 're talking to somebody about pension requirement it would be a case of Mr Prospect let's just have a look , let's imagine today is the last day that you 'll be working as a carpenter . |
| 30 | Here 's the first file that I 've got , this is the sales file , and , to bring the second file into memory in this , this One Two Three Release Three , you do file open . |