Example sentences of "that [be] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I mean , letters like that are just a laugh , are n't they ? ’ she rushed on with a very poor effort at bravado . |
| 2 | Some may be characterised as predominantly transaction orientated : that is , obtain the brief from the client and work as hard and fast as possible to fill that particular job , that being both the goal and the result . |
| 3 | Sometimes she had the strangest feeling he knew her better than she knew herself , and if that were truly the case then how on earth was she to go on protecting herself ? |
| 4 | If that were indeed the case their Englishness was certainly no impediment to involvement in a cosmopolitan , international world in which French speech and culture was dominant . |
| 5 | That was 1870 ; yet in 1881 Frances Mary Buss [ Miss Buss and Miss Beale/Cupid 's darts do not feel/How different from us/are Miss Beale and Miss Buss ] could say ‘ There is now no such thing as a ‘ woman 's education question ’ , ’ even if that were only a half truth . |
| 6 | And tha , that is invariably a problem . |
| 7 | So it was believed that a pronunciation change in one word would be followed by changes in all similar words — that there are laws of language evolution — and that is generally the case . |
| 8 | That is partly a result of City pressure to perform . |
| 9 | Most people prefer the total look to be soft and natural without some of the extravagances and hard colours of younger-style make-up , but that is partly a matter of personal taste and overall style . |
| 10 | The reason for that is partly the attitude of the people involved ; they will identify with individual cows and know them . |
| 11 | Changing that is partly the job of recently headhunted former Oracle staffer John Spiers , now marketing director for Northern Europe . |
| 12 | Changing that is partly the job of recently headhunted former Oracle staffer John Spiers , now marketing director for Northern Europe . |
| 13 | Few people will dispute that that is largely a result of the legislation that we passed to reform industrial relations . |
| 14 | Italian food has a reputation for being a dieter 's foe — but that is largely the fault of all-you-can-eat pasta pig-out places which pile on the Bolognese sauce . |
| 15 | As an empirical observation , that is normally the case ; that set of shared norms is part of the culture of institutions of higher education . |
| 16 | To do this , you connect a music source , that is either a disc or cassette player , to the second channel of the audio mixer , the combined output from which is fed to the record machine as before . |
| 17 | That is ultimately the issue facing Britain . |
| 18 | ‘ But , ’ said Fergus , leaning forward , his eyes absorbed , ‘ surely that is just a legend ? ’ |
| 19 | That is just a want . |
| 20 | It has already led to grief , but that is just a beginning . ’ |
| 21 | Because that is just a pile of shit |
| 22 | ‘ That is just a lie , ’ said Andrus . |
| 23 | All that is just a function of X whatever number X is X is for . |
| 24 | At the simplest level , the forest around a village is being gently ‘ harvested ’ — there is a scheme for gathering seeds of shrubs and climbers , for export to the garden-centre pot-plant nurseries of the US , but that is just a start . |
| 25 | Their brief was simple and straight : attack the morale of the enemy , That is just a simplification , but that is what it amounted to . |
| 26 | Many people think that is just a waste of time . |
| 27 | I would like if possible not to do that any more , cos clearly that is just a duplication of material already elsewhere available . |
| 28 | You know that is just a joke . |
| 29 | Well that is just a crap jobby anyway ! |
| 30 | That is just an attitude , and I do n't know where they get that from . |