Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [verb] that [det] [n mass] " in BNC.

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1 But it will be hard to accept that these people are serious about democracy — or can do much more to further its cause — so long as they stay in the same party as democracy-haters .
2 That may also be construed as a counter offer , which the customer accepts by retaining the goods ; however , if a delivery note is sent with goods , and received by the buyer 's warehouse staff , the buyer may be able to argue that those staff have no actual or apparent authority to accept an offer .
3 I would n't be surprised to learn that many people do now smoke only a quarter of their cigarettes on the bed when worried , simply because they have seen it so often in films .
4 As this is the book I have turned to first ever since the first edition appeared in 1974 , it 's gratifying to note that enough people agree to take the volume into its third edition with a fourth on the way .
5 Thus , it is reasonable to suppose that these data also reflect the same transitional changes in the relationship between infant mortality and birth order as was hypothesized in connection with maternal age .
6 It is difficult to imagine that such species were rapid swimmers .
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