Example sentences of "[verb] be [adv] [prep] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | His role has been rather like that of a stand-up comic warming up the audience for the main event . |
| 2 | ‘ Since its launch in 1989 , Drayton Asia 's investment performance has been significantly below that of Dragon , ’ the letter stated . |
| 3 | I 'd been away after that before I came to the electricity works here . |
| 4 | However , it must be recognised that the level of service provided is substantially above that provided by other local authority mental health services . ’ |
| 5 | The task the reader is set is rather like that of completing a jigsaw puzzle , where we are given a few pieces at a time , and have to keep guessing what the rest of the picture will be like . |
| 6 | The average thermal efficiency of French steam power stations , which had been well below that in Britain initially , was to overtake it in the later 1950s , as the more advanced French sets were commissioned ; and France caught up with American levels of thermal efficiency , while Britain remained behind . |
| 7 | Then he held out his arms and she went into them , laughing , wiping out the days they had been apart in that one eager meeting . |
| 8 | The only certainty was that it was not Brian , for Brian had been away during that crucial week of Tina 's cycle , doing an electrical job in Aberdeen . |
| 9 | The BBC 's pre-war conception of the audience had been more like that of someone reading a book — a deliberate and solitary or individual habit , though it may be done in company — than of a collective social entity . |
| 10 | What we did was we based our forecast , which I think Mr raised that point , we based our forecast on the admissions that we did at the Department of Social Security and I 'm glad to say that we have been significantly under that level and partly I think because er we 've had people who have genuinely diverted into home care and who 've been able to which is why we 've put the pressure on home care and on the occupational therapy services and partly because erm the , there were some inappropriate admissions I must say that . |
| 11 | Someone 's been right through that wall there , look . |