Example sentences of "[be] [adv] that [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They should stay where they are so that Ulster people can continue to enjoy the excellent facilities and services available . ’ |
| 2 | It may have been now that Ermold was returned to his beloved Aquitaine , and favour at Pippin 's court . |
| 3 | What indications are there that Lansdowne wishes to pursue a cautious policy , and how would you explain that caution ? |
| 4 | SHe knew he was holed up at Roirbak 's place , and was convinced hir instincts were right that Malamute hated Penumbra and was coping with moral dilemmas about what he 'd done for her . |
| 5 | ( Institute of Public Relations [ IPR ] ) The essential features of this definition are firstly that PR practice should be deliberate , planned and sustained — not haphazard ( like responding to say accidental pollution of a river ) . |
| 6 | My hon. Friend the Member for Dagenham ( Mr. Gould ) corrects me : it is rather that Brian Walden will visit the Secretary of State for lunch and take the cameras with him . |
| 7 | It 's right that Joe Hawkins and Allen 's other legendary aggro merchants should now be given a new lease of life , and Allen is absolutely sure of his books ' continued relevance : ‘ The doubts and problems which confronted yesteryear 's skinheads have multiplied at an alarming rate in today 's world . |
| 8 | It 's , it 's rarely that Gail , I do n't think I 've ever seen Gail in here . |
| 9 | Similarly , it is inconceivably that Mrs Thatcher would have succeeded in the American context . |
| 10 | Trent is not alone among regions ; it is merely that Trent does not conceal its statistics . |
| 11 | Well g er going back to my starting point that the relative environment of Selby the vis a vis the rest of North Yorkshire erm it 's a point which I 'm sure I 'll repeat in in in the coming days and it 's it 's basically that Selby in comparison with other districts in North Yorkshire is significantly different . |
| 12 | To repeat , the association between homosexuality and the sexual lite of a woman is not necessarily insulting to either ; it is only that Mailer 's denigrating version of it forewarns of the crassness of the version of sexual difference which constitutes both the origin and horizon of his vision , and once again indicates an intense apprehensiveness in the face of imagined male passivity , and the way it is oft en conceived in terms of a denigrated and denigrating femininity at once utterly alien to yet strangely inherent within the male . |
| 13 | Let us pretend that it is only that Grainne is too far above me , and let us continue the pretence , for I do not think I can bear it any other way . |
| 14 | The problem he says is only that Mr Tijani turned out to be so ill , otherwise he came as a legitimate private patient . |
| 15 | ‘ Neither was I. The reason I intend to keep my stake in this house is so that Kirsty and I can use it when we come up to Scotland . ’ |
| 16 | The truth is perhaps that Lévi-Strauss 's conception of structure has no greater intrinsic value than Radcliffe-Brown 's — although it is made to carry a vastly more elaborate analytical superstructure . |
| 17 | To an outsider , though , the surprising thing is not that Spain 's conservatives are inching ahead but that they are making such heavy weather of it . |
| 18 | It is not that Judas is actually betraying Jesus . |
| 19 | It is not that Jesus himself was God and man in the special and quite unique sense that Christian dogma had so long maintained . |
| 20 | Whether or not that is the case , the problem here is not that Jesus was a man , but that this man has been considered unique , symbolic of God , God Himself- or whatever else may be the case within Christianity . |
| 21 | It is not that Jesus viewed women with ambivalence , but his emphasis on the superior value of the spiritual may have placed women more than men in an ambivalent relationship to the divine . |
| 22 | The keys of old harpsichords are indeed often seen to be hollowed ; however , what this suggests is not that Handel had been assiduously practising on it for many years , but rather that ( being at least loo years old when Hawkins saw it ) it had never had the keys replated. 19th-century scholars were intrigued by this tale , and more than a century after Handel 's death embarked on the quest to rediscover the instrument . |
| 23 | The suggestion is not that Britain be turned into a glasshouse containing a mass of Disneylands and Mafia-run casinos ; merely that we take a serious and professional look at extending our all-year capacity to give people what they want . |
| 24 | But the problem is not that Britain has lost its empire . |
| 25 | What makes war likely is not that America and Iraq are not talking . |
| 26 | It is not that Lee should in some way be forbidden to talk about white , male canonical authors , but a book such as this ought to suggest a greater awareness of the very issues it is summarising . |
| 27 | It is not that Pan Am minded a rival going under ; indeed , Pan Am may now be able to raise ticket prices on east-coast routes where Eastern had offered big discounts . |
| 28 | It is not that Ukraine 's rulers are devoted to nuclear status . |
| 29 | Spend two days in tour fatigues with this new , arena-compatible Nirvana production machine — ‘ I do n't know the names of most of the crew , ’ admits Dave — and it dawns on you that the overriding issue here is not that Kurt Cobain is on heroin ( or is n't , or was , or is and is trying to get off ) but that his wife is a Grade A pain in the arse . |
| 30 | The important truth about this story is not that Zacchaeus had a change of heart as though he had suddenly decided that the way back to God was through good works of charity . |