Example sentences of "and [pron] be that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Uncle Tommy , his only brother , used to tell me , in jocular fashion , that the only difference between Daddy and himself was that Daddy went into work and he ran away from it . |
| 2 | Apart from a cameo role in the ill-fated and so far unreleased Bloodhounds of Broadway , she has not taken a film role since the poorly conceived Shanghai Express and Who 's That Girl . |
| 3 | And we tended to come to this area , grass and there 's that bar thing again |
| 4 | And there 's that bit of wood burning between his boots ! |
| 5 | ‘ When you 're brought up a Catholic , you ca n't shake that off , ’ says Enya , ‘ and there 's that element of protection in religion that everybody needs . |
| 6 | And there 's that bloke in the fifths that was in it , oh not the fifths |
| 7 | ‘ But sir , that 's an armoured car , bristling with hi-tech weapons and there 's that thing on its roof . |
| 8 | And there 's that book I bought — gosh , I keep forgetting about that ! |
| 9 | As usual he was immaculate in a dark suit with a faint pinstripe , and there was that fastidiousness about him which , somehow , missed being clinical ; it emphasised his aloofness , yet it also invited , suggested , lured … |
| 10 | A heavy , silver casket was swinging backwards and forwards and there was that smell in the air — a smell of old leaves and perfume and musty , clinging sweetness . |
| 11 | His face was dark purple and there was that look in his eyes again . |
| 12 | The shops were closing and there was that burst of activity before things settled down to the evening calm . |
| 13 | And they 're that bit better than you because they 're able to organise themselves and they do more in day and do it longer and so and so forth . |
| 14 | And it 's that part of the jigsaw that I want to concentrate on . |
| 15 | Well I c I I 've seen so many things over the year I just do n't believe it until I actually see it and th literally four weeks ago , I 'd just got back from Germany , went on a meeting the following morning and it 's that gentleman there , Steve , and h he 's got some pictures in his pocket which will prove exactly what we 're talking about . |
| 16 | And it 's that devotion that 's just won him the title of Britains most romantic top tycoon . |
| 17 | And it 's that moment which , when we trace the expansion backwards , will have occurred between about fifteen and eighteen billion years ago , but we ca n't say what , if anything , may have happened before that , whether the universe bounced out into another state of expansion , so we have a sort of a cut off in our ability to retrodict , or extrapolate backwards into the past . |
| 18 | But I think we 've got to remember that the , the people who really determine the quality of the users of our services , the clients , it 's they who say yes , this is what I want , this is th this is what I 'm after and that is why I hope that we will be able to target on things that come out of the consultation progress s process , things like evening and weekend working that people want and , rather than simply churning out more nine to five Monday to Friday day care , what people want is it targeted to their needs where they are and it 's that sort of quality that I think is so important . |
| 19 | The British government agreed to that and it 's that matter that now causes the present difficulties and uncertainties . |
| 20 | And it is that grouping , the J R P , that have got agreement between the Ethiopian government and the Tigre People 's Liberation Front to move food for the first time from the Ethiopian government areas into the areas controlled by the Tigre People 's Liberation Front . |
| 21 | Most important is the district council ; for nearly all purposes they are the planning authority and it is that council which issues planning consent . |
| 22 | The individual in whom that spirit lives will be faced with the opportunity to do such wrong and it is that individual who makes the choice and decides which path to follow . |
| 23 | The other is the far gamier world of Defoe and Fielding , and it is that memory that Amis and Murdoch revived . |
| 24 | That is where our freedom lies and it is that freedom which the fatwa threatens , and which it can not be allowed to destroy . ’ |
| 25 | Er and it is that minority of unscrupulous traders who make life very difficult for you and of course make life very difficult for Trading Standards . |
| 26 | And it is that uncertainty which limits the value the City can put on Sir Ernest 's other risky ventures , and explains why the share prices do not add up . |
| 27 | Kevin Gallacher , Coventry 's leading scorer , could return after a four match absence through injury and it is that department which , according to manager Don Howe , has dragged Coventry into the relegation fray . |
| 28 | Well erm the Greater York study area has been defined and it is that area erm on the front of the erm of the Greater York er study document . |
| 29 | The only difficulty is , is er the interpretation of of the words and er whether or not the the words er er er er in the vicinity of is more constricting than we anticipate and it is that point which will be needn which needs to be addressed , but I think I can assure the No Noble Lord that erm er they w w will have full jurisdiction on and in the vicinity of the stations which is the point which she which she is anxious about and that will continue just the same after April the first before . |
| 30 | And it is that point which has raised questions in the minds of some MPs who hitherto have been relatively happy with Clarke . |