Example sentences of "be that [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Is that just inherent prejudice ?
2 But what matters most is that extra special point of view .
3 Or is that always full board
4 And also , in that we , in that verse the first use of the word relative is that very near kinsman , and the second use , right at the end , one of our closest relatives , it 's the word that is used there that means the one who has the right to redeem .
5 Is that too small Phyl ?
6 It was not our fault , it is that damned Prussian artillery . ’
7 To what extent is that really good news ?
8 So that 's that that 's that rather awkward item so quite rapidly sorted out , yes .
9 What 's that then old boy ?
10 Was that slightly pooped gentleman with the waving arms who had ( oh God ! ) told Lord Boddy that his views were absolutely fascinating , and ( oh God oh God ! ) lit another of the television company 's cigarettes with their silver butane table-lighter every time he had seen the red light come up on the camera pointing at him — was that exuberantly shameful figure really identical with the anguished mortal man who now lay here stretched as taut as a piano-string in the dark ?
11 There was that very nice place in Keswick where he 'd always longed to take a smart woman to stay a day or two .
12 Initially on that first night after the operation there was that very finite feeling : ‘ Oh my God I have cancer that means death . ’
13 Was that apparently empty fisherman 's hut an abandoned home or a gun emplacement ?
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