Example sentences of "that [be] [adv] a [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , sometimes the Profitboss will disagree with a decision made by his boss ; but that 's rarely a reason to resign . |
| 2 | Erm , so that 's just a question to ask when you next come to erm this passage . |
| 3 | No , that 's just a thing attached |
| 4 | That 's just a label used by the Tories . ’ |
| 5 | That 's just an invitation to break your diet , ’ says Odette . |
| 6 | With average salaries currently at the £12–14,000 mark that 's quite a shortfall to make up if you want to be a working composer . |
| 7 | This bruiser 's called Tyson — that 's quite a lot to live up to . |
| 8 | And that 's quite a time consuming step . |
| 9 | That 's quite an accolade coming from an instructor who has 500 hours of P-40 time in seven of the eighteen P-40s worldwide which still fly . |
| 10 | There 's going to be a seventy acre community nature park eventually , so that 's quite an area to cover , but it 's not going to be all trees — it 's going to be some open glades for butterflies and so on , so there should be a nice variation there . |
| 11 | Erm I think that 's possibly a term called allocation . |
| 12 | They have to keep a logbook but that 's only a check to make sure that nobody 's leaving a mess in the common areas and we only have it because we 've found that some residents can have problems because they 've become deskilled in certain things . |
| 13 | ‘ That was simply a letter delivered at the gate just before dusk . |
| 14 | That was just a pretence to cover up her real affaire . |
| 15 | That was just an excuse to throw us together so you could seduce me ! |
| 16 | He asked me to resign , but I think that was just an excuse to get rid of me because he 's jealous of my work ! ’ she finished baldly , quite unable to dress up the truth . |
| 17 | Getting it out and that was just an armchair do n't know what they 'd do if they had to move the settee , but erm , that 's the difference in |
| 18 | Oh that was almost a classic build up was n't it ? |
| 19 | With a new rabbit and a short-haired piebald guinea pig in a box , Victoria arrived at a once-grand Queen Anne house in Wiltshire that was now a school devoted to raising the daughters of the gentry . |
| 20 | I mean that was always a milkman used , there used to be er James was one of the milkmen down Palfrey , he used to come . |
| 21 | As for the argument that money would follow patients and so make it possible for hospitals to treat more of them , that was always a non-starter given that the total amount of cash available to purchasers was not going to be increased . |