Example sentences of "[vb base] be [verb] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now parental investment is a technical concept which we do n't need to go into in this course in too great detail , suffice is to say that parental investment represents everything a parent sinks into its offspring which promotes its offspring 's reproductive success . |
| 2 | All you do is to move that decimal point two places . |
| 3 | Instead of highlighting the first cell with the formula in it , and the rest of the row or column , then accessing the edit menu and copying right or down , all you do is use that little cross in the bottom right hand corner of the cell border , and drag it across the range you want the formula copied to — Excel is clever enough to decide whether you want to copy or fill , and copies the formula through the range of cells — making the necessary alterations to cell references as it goes . |
| 4 | Me , I 've been doing that all my life . ’ |
| 5 | So what they 've done is they 've picked a way of doing but they kept chopping and changing the way they 've been doing that all the time . |
| 6 | You think you 're exhausted after a days work imagine if you 've been doing that all day long , shouting |
| 7 | I 've been requesting that small courtesy for weeks ! |
| 8 | I know you 've been investigating that horrible Martin man , even though you 've tried to keep it quiet , so here you are . ’ |
| 9 | In parts we have been given that modern definition . |
| 10 | Recently we have been learning that young animals , puppy dogs , even a giraffe , brought up exclusively by humans will be unable later on to identify themselves or establish emotional contact with their own species . |