Example sentences of "that [be] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in the case of gender , what can that be except a social value judgement ? |
| 2 | From the novelist 's journalism and notebooks and letters we glean the almost comically unresonant information that being at a loose end leads men to drunkenness and murder . |
| 3 | Once each of us has progressed beyond the initial terror that being on a vertical plane high above the ground induces , once we feel comfortable above the ground , then a new awareness develops . |
| 4 | I had no idea that being in a commercial rock band would be like this , because I 've never paid attention to other commercial rock bands . |
| 5 | On the basis of certain assumptions about the chemical heterogeneity of the mantle and a postulated marked increase in viscosity with depth , it has been argued that convection would be confined to the asthenosphere , that is to a maximum depth of about 300 km ( Fig. 2.1 7(A) ) . |
| 6 | And that is for a popular tourist destination airfield , squeezed incredibly between mountain cliff faces in one of the most utterly spectacular pieces of scenery this world has to offer ! |
| 7 | In them he presents himself as a ‘ pickle ’ , that is as a self-confessed reprobate , who made good . |
| 8 | Such laws assert connection between determinate properties in every object or stuff that is of a certain kind — arsenic , benzopyrene , coal , and so on . |
| 9 | With regard to the storage of manure , the effect on odour development depends on whether the manure is in solid or liquid form , and whether it is stored aerobically , that is with a sufficient supply of oxygen , or anaerobically , that is in septic conditions , in the absence of oxygen . |
| 10 | He really believed that he could do this through , through the form of the Blitzkrieg , that is through a limited war er which would secure military objectives and then produce a political peace and the model er for his er policy was in fact the eighteenth century where many wars occurred between European powers wa impo imperial wars and wars on , on t on er total Europe , but none of these wars resulted in the destruction of any state . |
| 11 | And the problem with that is that is like a tiny boxroom . |
| 12 | There is the further difficulty that mortgagees , in circumstances where there might have been a conveyance or transfer at less than full consideration ( whatever that is in a matrimonial context ) , are requiring indemnity insurance to protect the mortgagee for an amount equal to the advance ( see Halifax Building Society practice notes 1992 paras 22 and 25 ) . |
| 13 | Children who witness sexual intercourse in the first few years of their lives see it as a sort of ill-treatment , an assault by the man on the woman ; ‘ they view it that is in a sadistic sense ’ . |
| 14 | I think that is in a large part due to the quality of the speech synthesizer , which is made by Speech Plus . |
| 15 | Holy Living he described as ‘ rules to live under , as though under a physician 's hand , to be used like nourishment , that is by a daily care and meditation ’ . |
| 16 | That 's over a two year period . |
| 17 | That 's for a married couple , but er anybody who has n't income , single person , children ! |
| 18 | That 's for a future model , he told me . |
| 19 | That 's for a free quotation . |
| 20 | erm that 's from a that 's on a personal basis . |
| 21 | That 's on a good day . |
| 22 | And that 's on a good day . |
| 23 | That 's on a different page . |
| 24 | And that 's on a host-based system on one machine . |
| 25 | " In the unlikely event of us both firing wide — and that 's about a million-to-one chance , I 'd say young Joseph here with his Winchester peashooter will be a big favourite to pick off the stragglers . |
| 26 | That 's from a warm climate . |
| 27 | , that 's from a long way away that name . |
| 28 | That 's from a prehistoric elephant . |
| 29 | I mean , I love Alice — but that 's in a different way too . |
| 30 | That 's in a twenty-five metre bath . ’ |