Example sentences of "be [adv] [that] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now why I mean do you think it matters that these things are so that these things are so , that these things which we thought were in , you know private to you , and not available to other people so easily , why do you think it matters that they actually are apparently in return for mo payment , are available to anyone ? |
| 2 | Twenty years ago I would have been back that same night , but I 've learned since then that it is rare indeed to enjoy a repeat performance . |
| 3 | But then again , there are n't that many words rhyming with ‘ Colin ’ are there ? |
| 4 | ‘ There are n't that many words to learn but they are are important ones , ’ said director Gabriel by way of encouragement . |
| 5 | After all there are n't that many places that can do the sort of development work needed . |
| 6 | ‘ There are n't that many madmen about , ’ he said . |
| 7 | I am aware that there was a steady decrease in the casualty figures and this was welcome to the Harris Offensive and also to the Mighty Eighth , but it always appeared to be that the Luftwaffe were just that one step ahead until , of course , the advent of D-Day and the advance of the Allies on the Continent . |
| 8 | There were n't that many rehearsal places around at that time which we could afford . |
| 9 | The implications are again that any analysis must attempt the difficult task of combining the kinds of analysis offered by sociology with those offered by psychology and biology . |
| 10 | In fact , language , through abstraction , is a much more efficient form or communication and possesses much more control over its interpretation , and it is rather that this difference in evocation is less likely to be evident in artefactual symbolism than in linguistic symbolism . |
| 11 | He is right that any settlement must be based not just on discussions between India and Pakistan , as provided for in the Simla agreement , but on the political process in Kashmir . |
| 12 | My hon. Friend is right that this country has the best regulatory system for reducing real phone charges . |
| 13 | Judge Donald Herrod added : ‘ This is a very dramatic turn of events and it is right that this prosecution should not continue . ’ |
| 14 | That we do not have such an answer , it can be argued , is the fact that what follows , from the occurrence of the effect , is only that that circumstance or another occurred . |
| 15 | If part of the deep ecologist 's rationale for saving wilderness is so that future generations of humans can savour the orgiastic blood of the hunt ( as Ortega y Gasset describes the recreational slaughter of wild animals ) , animal liberationists can and should unashamedly applaud the efforts to preserve , but not the reasons for doing so . |
| 16 | The underlying attitude is perhaps that most people accept mentally handicapped people and are sympathetic towards them , but remain inwardly glad that it has not happened to them or to their children — ‘ there but for the grace of God , go I. ’ They also continue to believe the many myths surrounding the handicapped which have been passed on for decades . |
| 17 | Well , I certainly will take it up if I get a copy letter , I mean it is obviously that some departments act differently , and I understand that in any case this is only a letter from the secretary , it 's not him , so I mean , I 'm quite happy to take it up if I get the copy of that , and explain that this department act , does rather differently from some of the others . |
| 18 | It is not that such agendas are unresponsive to data but they are not responsive by way of direct testing . |
| 19 | The objection is not that such matters are raised but to the poisonous or venomous manner in which it is done . |
| 20 | It is not that such people are necessarily ‘ inadequate ’ , but that they feel themselves to be inadequate . |
| 21 | As explained above , the proposal of the FRED is not that such expenses be treated as an asset , but rather that they be taken into account in measuring a liability . |
| 22 | It is not that one part of Solidarity supports the free-market experiment and another does n't . |
| 23 | The argument here is not that all children should have access to all aspects of the curriculum . |
| 24 | As the constable quoted above makes clear , it is not that all neighbourhood policemen defuse every situation by the display of patience , sympathy , tolerance , and understanding , it is more that this is their first choice and they use other recipes , by becoming ‘ heavy-handed ’ and resorting to arrests , only when this one fails . |
| 25 | The real grist of Watchdog 's story is not that all fishtanks are dangerous but that there are tanks on the market made from glass that is far too thin . |
| 26 | His worry is not that these errors undermine any of their actual results : ‘ that the principles laid down by mathematicians are true , and their way of deduction from those principles clear and incontestable , we do not deny . ’ |
| 27 | When , in Britain , it is suggested that the policies of the Conservative Government towards local authorities since 1979 raise constitutional questions , what is meant is not that these policies are in any sense illegal , but rather … that they breach hitherto accepted understandings , albeit tacit , as to how relationships between central government and local authorities should be ordered . |
| 28 | It is not that these things are in themselves opposed to religion , but the possessiveness and distractedness which they tend to promote are . |
| 29 | It is not that these writers were necessarily against the idea of a science of society , but they did argue that the idea and practice of social science is not as straightforward as positivism would have us believe . |
| 30 | It is not that these initiatives do not contain good educational practice which is being criticised here ( for they do ) , but rather the way in which they are seen by some as panaceas which can succeed without full professional involvement . |