Example sentences of "that [be] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The reason for that is partly the attitude of the people involved ; they will identify with individual cows and know them . |
| 6 | Changing that is partly the job of recently headhunted former Oracle staffer John Spiers , now marketing director for Northern Europe . |
| 7 | Changing that is partly the job of recently headhunted former Oracle staffer John Spiers , now marketing director for Northern Europe . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | As an empirical observation , that is normally the case ; that set of shared norms is part of the culture of institutions of higher education . |
| 10 | That is ultimately the issue facing Britain . |
| 11 | However that is just the petrol cost . |
| 12 | That is just the intensification , the high point of an ongoing process . |
| 13 | Many families thought that getting their baby home would be the hardest part , but that is just the beginning . |
| 14 | That is just the beginning . |
| 15 | But that is just the tip of the iceberg . |
| 16 | On the cover Horowitz himself beams at us like a naughty gnome , and that is just the way his irrepressible musical personality comes over in the performances . |
| 17 | To me , that is just the way people should behave , ’ says Houghton . |
| 18 | And that is just the kind of order , it seems to me , which ought to have been granted if the plaintiffs ' contentions are correct . |
| 19 | That is just the gas bill , |
| 20 | In order to preserve modularity , this power could not , of course , extend to repairing the modules themselves , for that is just the sort of tinkering that a principle of modularity would rule out . |
| 21 | But that is just the start . ’ |
| 22 | That is just the start . |
| 23 | Still to come , Oxford 's Ice Hockey team , the Spire Oxford City Stars , ar runners up in the autumn cup , but that is just the start . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's not about diving into the murky depths in search of treasure — that is just the impression we want to get away from ’ , insists Noel Fojut , Historic Scotland 's Principal Inspector responsible for underwater archaeology . |
| 25 | On the contrary , that is just the situation when it is probable that pre-estimated damage was the true bargain between the parties . ’ |
| 26 | Of course Kirillov is anything but a normal human being ; and that is just the point . |
| 27 | ‘ That is just the point , ’ claimed one scathing newspaper editorial . |
| 28 | That is just the reaction provoked by Jesus and by the informal missionaries in the Acts ( Mark I:27 , Acts 4:13 ) . |
| 29 | That is presumably the product of what we now know about the Brixton prison escape . |
| 30 | That is also the name of the sender of letters to ‘ Liz ’ . |