Example sentences of "[be] [pron] [adj] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Are you sure that this is for me , Joe ? ’ |
| 2 | Pensioners — Are you aware that 1993 is the European Year of Older People and Solidarity Between Generations . |
| 3 | Are you aware that the array of funerals , commonly made by undertakers , is strictly the heraldic array of a baronial funeral , the two men who stand at the doors being supposed to be the two porters of the castle , with their staves , in black ; the man who heads the procession , wearing a scarf , being a representative of a herald-at-arms ; the man who carries a plume of feathers on his head being an esquire , who bears the shield and casque , with its plume of feathers ; the pall-bearers , with batons , being representatives of knights-companions-at-arms ; the men walking with wands being supposed to represent gentlemen-ushers , with their wands : are you aware that this is said to be the origin and type of the common array usually provided by those who undertake to perform funerals ? |
| 4 | Are you aware that this is a significant problem ? |
| 5 | Are we content that that goes forward or , I mean , I do n't blame you for , having your little piece about the earlier things , but they really are n't particularly that issue that we 're discussion are they ? |
| 6 | Not only were they upset that some of their own work had been wasted but they appreciated the efforts their parents and teachers had put in to buy the equipment . |
| 7 | ‘ Ask yourselves , ’ he questioned the jury , ‘ is it possible that two exceptionally strong and stalwart officers could be put to death so easily by just one man and a mere youth , or would it have taken at least three if not four men to overcome them and cause such severe injuries ? , |
| 8 | Is it possible that this wild boy is hunting at night with a fast , intelligent dog ? |
| 9 | Is it possible that this too will be shifted so that the redistributive goal is not achieved ? |
| 10 | Is it possible that some learning difficulties arise from the ways in which schools are organised and managed ? |
| 11 | Is it possible that these cetaceans and odontocetes , hailing from beyond the wave base and thus unfamiliar with the self-generated noise of moving sediment , become disoriented by these acoustic signals on the same wavelength as their own systems ? |
| 12 | Eudoxus initially is shocked by this possibility : ‘ Is it possible that any should so far grow out of frame that they should in so short a space quite forget their country and their own names ? ’ . |
| 13 | I would like to look at the people who are being cared for , the people that we 're talking about , are the elderly , quite often these people have lived through two world wars and given up their young married life , they have brought up their children through the bleak days of the general strike , is it right that these people have to suffer the indignity of charity hand-outs ? |
| 14 | Is the concept of sensation involved in these sentences such that it makes sense to say that the same sensation is excited by the presence to our organs of numerous objects , or is it such that numerous objects ( and , indeed , the same object at different times ) can not but excite different , though possibly exactly similar sensations ? |
| 15 | Nor is it unlikely that some of them , or others , were interested in taking the Danish throne , and that the later stories about the killing of Haldanus and the expulsion of Harald reflect this , if in a distorted form . |
| 16 | 1 Why is it important that all patients are well nourished prior to surgery ? |
| 17 | Is it fair that some people earn much more than others in a market economy ? |
| 18 | First , is it fair that bad employers should effectively be subsidised by the state ? |
| 19 | Nor is it clear that increasing sophistication , defined by literacy , or increasing religiosity , as brought for example to some communities by Methodism , made much difference in this respect . |
| 20 | Nor is it clear that public law provides a solution except in the limited instances of FSA , ss 55 and 81 , although it is likely that s 48(2) ( h ) permits SIB Core Rule 36 to modify fiduciary duties . |
| 21 | Without information about specific incidents it is not possible to develop a methodical analysis , nor is it likely that effective strategies for prevention will be found . |
| 22 | Nor is it likely that such thwarted parents would make ideal parents for a mentally handicapped child . |
| 23 | Nor is it inevitable that all the products of research will find a ready market . |
| 24 | First , is it inevitable that political parties , not voters , should rank candidates on their lists , and thus decide which of them will have the best chances of being elected ? |
| 25 | Is it true that liberal democracies ‘ do n't go to war with one another ’ ? |
| 26 | Neither is it true that well-developed contraceptive techniques are necessary to achieve low fertility . |
| 27 | IS IT TRUE THAT 14 - 13 is the same as 13 - 14 ? |
| 28 | ‘ Is it true that all of the people in there have vanished ? ’ |
| 29 | Let's just consider the political problem though you have still got a problem selling it to a lot of MP s , if they 're listening to this interview and they are concluding , maybe rightly , maybe wrongly , that actually things are n't changing very much , and they may think they 've been sold a pup with these amendments , indeed I hear that some of them have had to be bought off , well , is it true that one of them was sent off to Peru on an on an election er supervision mission in order that he might not be around when the bill came up . |
| 30 | ‘ Is it true that white folk smell different from black folk ? ’ |