Example sentences of "that [be] [adv] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The specificity of the lexical amalgam and its variation , the pun , is that they partake simultaneously of two different contexts which they join on grounds that are quite obviously a function of the free play of the signifier . |
2 | The lulling cushion of blood-heat saline solution I floated on did help me to neglect those bodily fears that were so much a part of me . |
3 | She had grown used to the tiny sounds that were so much a part of Seawitch , just as she had grown used to the boat 's continually changing motion . |
4 | Without the possibility , then , of altering one 's perceptual inputs at will it is difficult to see how the information provided by the input systems could ever be centered upon a self , a self that is not just a repository of information , but something which addresses itself to reality and for whom reality is centred upon itself . |
5 | The knowing use of the conventions of the detective story to write something that is not quite a detective story not only follows a rather well-established practice in post-war Italian writing , of which the novels of Gadda and Sciascia are the best-known examples ( cf. |
6 | We must campaign strongly to ensure that men and women still have a state pension that is n't just a pittance at sixty . |
7 | The Department of Human Resources , the Repo Men monitoring information , maintaining order in a city that is n't really a city . |
8 | The income the garbage pickers receive for each item is extremely low and reduced even further by the competition between them , which is encouraged by the system that is very much a buyer 's market . |
9 | You do n't need to be a programmer ; there 's no code to write , and you do n't even have to adopt the programmer 's mindset that is so often a prerequisite for building advanced database applications . |
10 | So what 's so special about an alkali that 's not quite a special about a base . |
11 | What on earth was she supposed to wear for this evening with Dane — this evening that was n't exactly a date , yet she could think of no other description for it ? |
12 | Since the arrival of the letter a coldness had grown inside her , and a pain in her throat that was n't really a pain but a hard , tight ball of anger . |
13 | The modified theory can not be tested in any way that was not also a test of the original theory . |
14 | I had a dream that was not quite a dream . |
15 | His father cleared his throat and said in a voice that was now almost a whisper : ‘ So it 's all settled then ? ’ |