Example sentences of "that [be] [adv] [art] [noun] " 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 | But that were n't a bedsitter that I was in . |
| 4 | but that were n't no fault of your own |
| 5 | There is no doubt that Marlborough , Massachusetts-based Sequoia Systems Inc has all its marbles in the right place when it comes to designing and building fault-tolerant Unix systems — it would n't be an important partner of Hewlett-Packard Co if that were n't the case , but it still needs to get its act together on the marketing and finance side . |
| 6 | That were n't the reason , ’ she snapped . |
| 7 | It is indeed true that balance of payments deficits can be sustained for longer than they could a generation ago ; we would have never got this far without a much worse sterling crisis if that were not the case . |
| 8 | Lastly , it is worth pointing out that that presence in the territory of the country of establishment must be intended to be permanent , or at least of an indefinite duration , because if that were not the case there would be no distinction between establishment and the supply of services . |
| 9 | Public business could not be carried on if that were not the case . |
| 10 | If that were not the case then we would n't have er public consultation exercise and ask for people 's views in terms of which routes they support . |
| 11 | As Lord Justice Lloyd has said , if that were not the rule , no one would safely be able to advise litigants in personal injury cases to settle claims , or know what to pay into court . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And tha , that is invariably a problem . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | That is partly a result of City pressure to perform . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The reason for that is partly the attitude of the people involved ; they will identify with individual cows and know them . |
| 20 | Changing that is partly the job of recently headhunted former Oracle staffer John Spiers , now marketing director for Northern Europe . |
| 21 | Changing that is partly the job of recently headhunted former Oracle staffer John Spiers , now marketing director for Northern Europe . |
| 22 | Few people will dispute that that is largely a result of the legislation that we passed to reform industrial relations . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | As an empirical observation , that is normally the case ; that set of shared norms is part of the culture of institutions of higher education . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | That is ultimately the issue facing Britain . |
| 27 | ‘ But , ’ said Fergus , leaning forward , his eyes absorbed , ‘ surely that is just a legend ? ’ |
| 28 | That is just a want . |
| 29 | It has already led to grief , but that is just a beginning . ’ |
| 30 | Because that is just a pile of shit |