Example sentences of "be [adv] [adj] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her family and acquaintance would have been greatly astonished to learn that Camille considered herself prematurely grown-up , and she herself was waiting for the day when she could tame her anger into cold bitterness and frame it into phrases as cutting as tempered steel . |
| 2 | Andy and Peter are both happy to admit that TMAM started in the same way as most enthusiast-driven collections — with no collecting policy at all . |
| 3 | Given the volume and speed of the electronic transactions , bank customers are also likely to demand that banks ascertain the trustworthiness of the signers or authenticators . |
| 4 | Seniors are often unwilling to admit that subordinates have developed to the extent that they could perform some of the manager 's duties . |
| 5 | DNAaseI and copper phenanthroline footprints of both proteins are now separate suggesting that CRP and the truncated RNA polymerase do not share any significant contact on the DNA . |
| 6 | Sociolinguists may be somewhat surprised to note that Language and Disadvantage remains one of the most popular topics , with almost all courses at all levels giving it special emphasis . |
| 7 | Microsoft 's Jack Fogg claimed it would be more accurate to say that Windows NT is ‘ a better Unix than Unix ’ than ‘ a better Windows than Windows ’ , which is probably good news for Unix as well . |
| 8 | This understanding may be due to the farmers being highly tolerant because there are so few walkers , but if you 've ever sat down to have a chat with a shepherd on the windy fellsides you might be more likely to say that tolerance and friendliness is in their nature . |
| 9 | This would seem to be unreasonably early considering that Scorton is a tourist area which gets large numbers of visitors on Bank Holidays . |
| 10 | It would be unduly optimistic to assume that management skills have risen to a level such that costs undertaken can be assumed to be equivalent to value . |
| 11 | It would be as well to remember that CPE died ( 1786 ) only five years before Mozart , by which time Bach 's musical style had already been overtaken by the Classicists . |
| 12 | And erm again and again you find that it is , that the thing you half suspected is mentioned by a character later , and when I find that I 'm strongly inclined to suppose that Shakespeare has put it there . |
| 13 | And when I find that I 'm strongly inclined to suppose that Shakespeare has put it there . |
| 14 | But conceivably I might be particularly anxious to emphasise that A is not stating a falsehood that he is a reliable witness , say , which might be important in certain circumstances . |
| 15 | This will be relatively small to ensure that lexicographers return entries to the database promptly , and do not work on several entries at the same time . |
| 16 | You see , it was n't just a case of loving her and that was all there was to it , that might be very nice to know that God loves me , but I , there 's a sense in , I want to know what that love produces . |
| 17 | Members will be very sad to hear that John Hewitt , husband of our secretary , Hilda , has died . |
| 18 | And it used to be very fashionable to say that Thucydides was much the better of these two historians , he was describing erm a war in which he himself took part , he weighed the evidence very carefully , erm he produced very incisive statements about individuals and about problems , and that Herodotus had a lot of myth in what he wrote , and he was more wide-ranging , and he did n't really have the same standards of truth that Thucydides had had . |
| 19 | Mr Maan added : ‘ I 'm very delighted to hear that Mr McNeill has apologised publicly . |
| 20 | First , interferon gene deletions have previously been associated with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia and it would , therefore , not be too surprising to find that abnormalities of interferon regulation or of the interferon signalling pathway were tumorigenic . |
| 21 | Although it might be too much to say that Woodhead and colleagues have found the proverbial smoking gun that settles the issue of deep mantle recycling , they do seem at least to have found a gun . |
| 22 | But it may not be too late to suggest that Waugh 's reputation for right-wingery — a reputation swallowed by Orwell and many since — has been mildly overdone . |
| 23 | Contra Marxists , exponents of the autonomous state model are particularly keen to stress that capitalists have continually faced a governing apparatus at least partly structured against them : by feudal forces in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , by socialist labour movements in the twentieth century , and by the military requirements and foreign policy aims of governing elites at all times ( Finer , 1975 ) . |
| 24 | The results are quite accurate provided that care is taken to prevent small plant segments adhering to the belt and being carried past the sensor more than once . |
| 25 | ( Teachers used to living in subject blinkers are sometimes startled to find that films chosen as " starters " for topic work in their subject may already have been shown by another teacher in a different context . |
| 26 | Libraries with no training officers were more likely to say that decisions were made by chief executives , and to specifically note that local authority approval was needed . |
| 27 | For instance a large chunk of those voters who did declare firmly their intention to vote Labour were still prepared to recognise that Michael Fallon has done a good job as a constituency MP for the town since his election victory in 1983 . |
| 28 | The judges were also keen to stress that charities still need to balance readers ' requirements . |
| 29 | If Marshal Piłsudski and Colonel Beck , the Polish leaders in Warsaw , were upset that France had not given them stronger backing over the Wilia crisis , then they were also relieved to find that Hitler was not prepared to go to war over the city — at least not yet . |
| 30 | They were probably right to suspect that St Petersburg had begun to think of intervening in their affairs . |