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

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31 It has the only real harbour you can find on the Atlantic side of France south of Bordeaux , a good sheltered anchorage that is also the entrance to the river .
32 She is alive and just as attractive as ever , so please do n't lose touch with this thing of beauty that is certainly a joy forever .
33 It was black , the sort of black that is less a colour than a graveyard of colours , and there was a highly-ornate runic inscription up the blade .
34 It 's a production that is inescapably an extension of your personality — like dress or décor .
35 So when they see an apparent egg that is really a stone , the fact of its being a stone ( not that they have found a stone on the beach , say , which happens to look just like an egg ) swamps their judgement ; similarly when they see a white card changing colour — the blueness is salient not the fact that it started white .
36 It is a backhanded note of dismissal , an explanation that is really an excuse .
37 The very act of sharing this experience with men and women of every background and colour of skin , heightens that sense of being part of something that is truly a part of history .
38 It is clear that the worst child mortality is found among children classified as unoccupied , a term that is usually a euphemism for their economically inactive single parents .
39 Produced by one of those boring names that is usually the guarantee of at least a little hype , but who cares ?
40 He acknowledges that Donald is South Africa 's top bowler and major attraction but he believes that is still no excuse for bowling him too much .
41 For a systematic tasting , I went back to Erdinger Weissbräu 's original premises , a 1537 house that is still the brewery tap , at Number One on the ‘ High Street ’ , Lange Zeile .
42 Hoare Govett is a leading UK institutional stockbroker that is now a subsidiary of ABN AMRO Bank , the largest bank in Holland .
43 ‘ We did not know it at the time but the torch we lit in Britain , which transformed our country — the torch of freedom that is now the symbol of our party — became a beacon that has shed its light across the Iron Curtain into the East .
44 In awe of Zantac , an anti-ulcer treatment that is now the world 's best-selling drug , our participants awarded Glaxo top-three places for innovation , product quality and marketing .
45 If the more rural areas show up on the whole slightly better than the more populous places that is perhaps a feature that occurs in other aspects of Scottish life ; and let the indwellers in those backward centres of population not repine .
46 As a rule , he prefers to shake his finger at men as they move by wrong paths from the cradle to the grave , and to remind himself with a frown that he , too , is human — a frown that is almost a sigh :
47 He is supporting a scheme that is essentially a monopoly and does not allow for any genuine competitive challenge which , as we have all been informed , is the only real moderating influence on the free market provision .
48 NOW children that is hardly the way to treat England rugby skipper Will Carling !
49 I 'm growing hair for charity but in many respects that 's probably an excuse .
50 But for gay men and lesbian women that 's rarely the case .
51 If you 're looking for the perfect Valentine 's prezzie for your perfect man that 's just a bit different check these out !
52 Sorry that 's just a bit of advice
53 You see , as far as they 're concerned that 's just the way it should be .
54 ‘ If I had teeth and tentacles all over the place that 's just the sort of message I 'd send .
55 And the way the management work in here , I can say is they , aim they 're promoting anybody to a chargehand they usually promote somebody that 's actually no threat to themselves .
56 The early efforts are low-budget romps , akin to the kind of shambling college-project material that 's usually the preserve of British indie outfits , but things become slicker as the band mature , as evidenced by ‘ Sunless Saturday ’ — a cinematic masterstroke that finds Spike Lee adding claustrophobic visuals to a song that embodies the oppressive squalor of Fishbone 's native Los Angeles .
57 and Marion 's and if the one that 's nearest the house wants to get out first everybody else has to move .
58 Sa , and I 'd say yeah but that 's not a pun that 's only a pun if you if you write down this is smashing said erm the robber or the smash and grab , in other words the window fell in , that kind of thing , you know .
59 Tomorrow night on Central we begin a two-part report on a murder that 's still a mystery … ten years after it was committed .
60 Well there 's you right angle that 's still the hypotenuse which one would be the opposite now if we 're dealing with with this angle ?
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