Example sentences of "be [adj] that [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So much so that they are convinced that very many of the problems that they deal with are unemployment related . |
| 2 | I am dismayed that so little has been done to decentralise , when so many other EC countries have clearly felt the benefits , both economic and political , of taking the decentralised route . |
| 3 | I am glad that so many more knitters are using double jacquard as it does make a super skirt . |
| 4 | You are sure that almost all flying insects either bite or sting . |
| 5 | I agree that they are important , but I am concerned that so little is made of freight . |
| 6 | But we saw enough to be grateful that so much is being done to protect and conserve this rich heritage and , driving on lead-free petrol , we felt comfortable knowing that we were doing our bit . |
| 7 | But we saw enough to be grateful that so much is being done to protect and conserve this rich heritage and , driving on lead free petrol , we felt comfortable knowing that we were doing our bit . |
| 8 | And I 'm afraid that as all I 've seen is one miscalculated mishap after another you 've got an awful long way to go before I 'm convinced of anything . |
| 9 | A composer was credited for ‘ Music ’ , but clearly he was not the composer of that extract , and yet I 'm sure that even some of the people who wanted half an hour with the matey biologist would have welcomed the recording details . |
| 10 | Who can fail to be amazed that so few men ( and virtually unknown men too ) , could carry such a huge quantity of jewels unharmed over so great a distance ? |
| 11 | I 'm amazed that as many people came out of it as did , because there was some abuse happened there , beyond belief really . |
| 12 | But we must be aware that often enough interludes have a special purpose . |
| 13 | As laicisation has forced religion from community to private practice , we should not be surprised that so few people know how to mourn together and share common griefs . |
| 14 | Marion , who has worked at the Tour for the past two years and recently took over as Membership Secretary , says : ‘ We are pleased that so many girls want to join our Tour , but we are also anxious to ensure that they have thought through all the consequences and they are sure that they want to be a professional . |
| 15 | A spokesman for Wirral 's education department said : ‘ We are pleased that so many parents voted against opting out , but regret that the ballot has to be re-run . |
| 16 | It was because of this , along with the commonplaces of fashionable racial theory , that most educated Russians at the beginning of the twentieth century were convinced that practically all the smaller peoples of Siberia were irrevocably doomed to extinction . |
| 17 | The traditionalists in the Labour Party , already concerned at the loss of some ‘ respectable ’ working-class voters over the Tory council-house purchase policy , were alarmed that even more of them would desert Labour over such close associations with homosexuality . |
| 18 | So we are anxious that as many people as possible enter the debate . |
| 19 | It is possible that nearly all of the outgassed volatiles have always been the result of recycling . |
| 20 | It is possible that yet another unique quality of man is a capacity for genuine , disinterested , true altruism . |
| 21 | But it is possible that so much competence could be transferred from the member states to the Community that member states would lose their status as sovereign states ’ . |
| 22 | A screen of coding regions for mutations still presents a considerable challenge even with the much improved technology made available by the polymerase chain reaction , and it is possible that very many different mutations remain to be discovered . |
| 23 | Extrapolating from the known dates of birth , it is possible that as many as 75 per cent of the women employed in 1910 were then aged between 14 and 23 , the remaining 25 per cent being between 24 and 43 or older . |
| 24 | Since three out of every four owners report behavioural problems with their dogs at some stage , it is clear that probably most strays are discarded for this reason , rather than because of other factors such as family break-ups or emigration . |
| 25 | The road yaws out in front of us , and it is clear that yet another armadillo has been chucked overboard . |
| 26 | It is clear that nearly all of the 10 worst councils in terms of rent collection and houses left empty are Labour controlled . |
| 27 | It is clear that very many pupils find great difficulties with the concept of percentage . |
| 28 | Out of these different forms of prevention , it is clear that very few are actually preventive in nature . |
| 29 | It is clear that almost all the European Free Trade Association countries , except perhaps Iceland , will want to join the Community . |
| 30 | It is interesting that nearly all music-hall artists adapted successfully ; evidently , years of projecting the voice over the orchestra and up towards the upper circle without the help of loudspeakers was good training . |