Example sentences of "be [adv] [adj] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This would seem to be unreasonably early considering that Scorton is a tourist area which gets large numbers of visitors on Bank Holidays . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Members will be very sad to hear that John Hewitt , husband of our secretary , Hilda , has died . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |