Example sentences of "be [adv] [adj] that this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not convinced that this find is a weapon ( it is very difficult to make an accurate judgement from the rough sketch ) . |
| 2 | I am not convinced that this issue should be on the political agenda at all , not at this time , not at any time , in fact I am pretty convinced that this is a Tory agenda , a media agenda , why they do they not want to talk about crooks and spivs that support them , that donate thousands of pounds into their coffers ? |
| 3 | We ourselves , like the other national institutions and many private galleries , mount many exhibitions with some international components , but I am not sure that this type of exhibition ( primarily arts/humanities orientated ) is what you are interested in . |
| 4 | If you have any queries , or are not sure that this Plan is exactly what you require , please ring the NatWest Insurance Services ' Helpline on Bristol ( 0272 ) 263723 . |
| 5 | And it does seem to me that erm the minute you suggest to a Parish Council who has already complained about illegal encampments on roadsides and laybys that there is a good site in their patch , there is an immediate reaction , and I am thoroughly convinced that this reaction is based on a fear that is actually based on ignorance , and that we have to remember that travellers of any description — and I do n't categorise them like Peter does — travellers of any description are human beings . |
| 6 | I am frankly surprised that this home truth has n't hit home before : vast areas of London do n't have adequate GP cover . |
| 7 | Yeah , I 'm rather concerned that this kind of thing seems to be happening rather a lot , I mean this is so reminiscent of what happened in the , the four maisonette in in Fern Hill where we had empty blocks left for a long time erm becoming a magnet for vandalism and all kinds of everything ! |
| 8 | This is quite a specific issue , and I 'm not sure that this committee on this day is in the best position to discuss it in detail . |
| 9 | ‘ Yes , I am , ’ replied the old gentleman , ‘ but I 'm not sure that this boy actually took the handkerchief . |
| 10 | Members , other members have referred to the crime prevention exercise , I 'm very pleased that this council has actually grasped that nettle and is going to fund a crime prevention co-ordinator at some stage in the near future . |
| 11 | But very , very quickly erm , I 'm actually delighted that this organization has helped breathe the life into not only the Professional Boxers ' Association , we are extremely grateful . |
| 12 | I think , Bill , really you far be it for me to try and teach you your job , but you ought to have perhaps gone back a little bit and wondered why we were all in this position , because you have us in year after year talking about budgets that are made and budgets which improve services , and and we need to be absolutely clear that this budget does not improve services at all , that this budget does very severe damage to services , that the budget that has gone through the Council identifies nearly eight million pounds taken off service provision erm and that can not be done under the Conservatives by making erm a budget with the Liberal Democrats have proved that it ca n't be done , in spite of their previous comments , without pain to services . |
| 13 | ‘ I feel extremely anxious about you , being well aware that this time of year is most trying in England . |
| 14 | Indeed , I sometimes wonder if they were even aware that this accident in Belgium had happened . |
| 15 | It is little wonder that this policy , coupled with their reliability , soon established the popularity of Japanese cars , and such product specification rapidly became the norm throughout the market . |
| 16 | It is little wonder that this figure cast what almost amounted to a spell over aspiring black sportsmen . |
| 17 | It is wholly admirable that this country can provide research facilities and educational expertise to overseas students , but the value of their work to this country may consist solely of the funding which they bring with them , the esteem in which they hold this country 's institutions when they have returned home , and their subsequent contacts and consultancies . |
| 18 | It is wholly admirable that this country can provide research facilities and educational expertise to overseas students , but the value of their work to this country may consist solely of the funding which they bring with them , the esteem in which they hold this country 's institutions when they have returned home , and their subsequent contacts and consultancies . |
| 19 | So really it 's only right that this council should follow up on such a motion . |
| 20 | It is highly likely that this agglutinin is fibrinogen ( Gartner et al , 1980 ; Berndt & Phillips , 1981 ) . |
| 21 | If society in all its aspects has always been in a state of flux , it is highly unlikely that this process will end at any particular time . |
| 22 | It is somewhat ironical that this position was carefully constructed by earlier Republican presidents and that CITES was primarily the brainchild of the Nixon administration . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , the greenhouse effect is so efficient that this energy becomes trapped to the extent that it drives up the surface temperatures to the observed values . |
| 24 | Second , if we accept that such adjectives , unlike predicate qualifiers , are genuinely equivalent to a modified clause in conjunction with the noun phrase which they follow , then it is entirely predictable that this construction will demand , as the preceding main verb , one which customarily supports a predication expressed in an explicit subordinate clause ; this will not , however , be demanded of the verb preceding a predicate qualifier . |
| 25 | It is entirely possible that this mechanism does operate , and that the members of a herd do use these clues when looking at one another . |
| 26 | It is terribly important that this country takes vocational training seriously . |
| 27 | It is abundantly clear that this God will never let his people go . |
| 28 | It is perhaps ironic that this tablet is one of the few on the market which can be interfaced with the Dragon computer as the company which makes it is the remnants of the firm which designed and built the Dragon . |
| 29 | It is not surprising that this movement had the sympathy of Euripides , who made considerable use of its tricks and mannerisms . |
| 30 | It is not surprising that this conclusion has been reached by a number of writers , including Falk et al . |