Example sentences of "that [vb mod] to [be] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That ought to be a blinding glimpse of the obvious , and it should also be obvious that it will only happen through disciplined and focused teaching . |
| 2 | That was because I mean you take now the , the , the Dredging Company what they call the in their funnel they used to have erm a square and in halves that used to be a blue and a yellow . |
| 3 | Go up Road , and from there turn down Follyhouse Lane the continuation of it and you 'd come right to the Dales and nothing at all from there to West Bromwich , and you could see , if you go over one stile from one field then onto another and then brook that now runs through the Road there , that used to be a little country brook that run across the golf course and there was a little stile over it , a little bridge and a stile , then you go straight up to Dells common and not a house in sight . |
| 4 | That 's right there 's a that used to be an old meadow , that 's all it used to be , course now , they 've got a nice football pitch on it now . |
| 5 | The animal chosen for the task was the Soay , a pretty Hebridean sheep that used to be an endangered breed . |
| 6 | Well , apparently that used to be the official advice er and , and we were correct in that but the authorities have now changed their minds and they no longer want us to pour waste chemical down the drains and I gather that the official advice now is that surplus diluted chemical should be poured , and I 'm quoting here , on to more or less level and bare soil in the garden or on to level gravelled paths , avoid disposal in areas around ponds , erm water courses and so forth , dishes and , and what have you and as far as undiluted chemicals are concerned , that 's stuff still in the bottle , the advice there is to talk to your local authority cos they have different regulations in different areas . |
| 7 | Now we used to clean the bottom up cos used to be a big boiler in the dredger and erm we used to close down every six weeks , which they used to call blow the boiler down , that mean that they open the valve and the heat used to take all the water into the river , so er , that used to be blown down Friday night , come Saturday morning we 'd start at six o'clock and chip all the fur off inside the boiler , cos the boiler was made with all and what we call the crown , that used to be the two furnaces , cos they 're double the big boiler were a double furnace and we had to chip all that fur off them , well it used to take us now from six o'clock in the morning or say seven when we got there had to go down the tug and er go down the tug and erm , then we go aboard and strip off . |