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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | There will not be the great trade-off that my hon. Friend imagines . |
| 5 | So the increased interest in fitness may not be the healthy trend that it first appeared to be . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | An unspoken reason for her attempted escape had also been the growing certainty that this attraction was coming to a head . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This effect , sometimes referred to as ‘ encoding specificity ’ ( e.g. Tulving and Thomson 1973 ; Tulving 1983 ) has been subject to a range of interpretations but what concerns us here is the general possibility that contextual factors might determine test performance by modulating the ease with which stored information is retrieved . |
| 12 | What they have in mind here is the common situation that , while hunting , the quarry is first wounded by one hunter 's spear but ultimately brought down by another spear thrown by a second huntsman . |
| 13 | Where is the Christian love that Jesus talked about ? |
| 14 | And why was the medical possibility that the women who attended Bristol had more serious disease not properly investigated or put forward for media consumption ? |
| 15 | All he seemed to be able to concentrate on was the small dimple that appeared to the left of Julia 's mouth whenever she smiled her rather lopsided smile . |