Example sentences of "be [that] [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | May I say how thrilled I am that that United Kingdom shipyard has such a healthy order book ? |
| 2 | The chances are that any LSE owner would have an appropriate button fitted as soon as possible , so if Lowden themselves fitted them , making sure the job was done elegantly , that would keep the guitar original and prevent any screw-ups by those amateur guitar repairers who 've never heard of pilot-holes … |
| 3 | The reason is that hardened Staffordshire smokers ( and they come no harder ) have taken to the Nicotine patch and are driving their colleagues mad with frozen smiles and cries of : ‘ I 'm all right — I 've gone 73-and-a-quarter hours without one ’ . |
| 4 | Smith 's only consolation is that former England defender Russell Osman should be back to steady his defence against Notts County at Ashton Gate on Saturday when City try to extend an unbeaten run of five home League games . |
| 5 | Claudia , the problem is that one Masai , cruel as this may sound , is not considered very important . |
| 6 | Another very neat feature is that one Postscript interpreter can handle both the user 's screen and a printer directly from the same source material . |
| 7 | stuff that Oh is that that Nestle 's th Yeah , Milky Bar . |
| 8 | It 's not as bad as I think , I think the funniest thing was erm is that that Hackney Housing Office down here looks just like a squat is that the housing office for Hackney |
| 9 | The result is that Central Europe mist make do with financial subsidies instead , as if it were an undeveloped region of the world . |
| 10 | The difficulty is that many US corporations neglect to complement an overlapping strategy with the required intensive information processing . |
| 11 | As with any automatic system , it is the unusual situation which can cause a problem , and here the problem is that most AF systems tend to focus on the cage bars in the foreground rather than on the animal lurking behind them — or the focus may hunt nervously from one to the other . |
| 12 | The fact is that urban Britain faced not a period of standstill but of dramatic growth and reordering . |
| 13 | ‘ What you are suggesting is that this Andropulos is some kind of mastermind — possible world co-ordinator — of drug-smuggling ? |
| 14 | The main hypothesis is that some CSPs are socially differentiated in that they are not all used by every social group , and that people are more aware of these CSPs than of others . |
| 15 | The contrast is that these Pacific rim countries are investing in tomorrow at a rate of knots . |
| 16 | The fact is that old Uncle Dan , who lives with me , is a bit queer in the head , and I 'm afraid he talked a lot of nonsense . |
| 17 | It is that same KaDeWe — you pronounce it ‘ cardayvay ’ — where 60 years ago a Hungarian band played popular dance music favourites in the chic top floor restaurant . |
| 18 | It was that fiendish Perdita Macleod . |
| 19 | The result was that one Michał Drzymała , who purchased land in Wolsztyn , circumvented the rules only by living in a caravan for nearly ten years . |
| 20 | The result was that all New York fares could now be reduced , bringing them to a level only slightly above that of Virgin 's competing New York fare , and fares on the Boston route were adjusted to match the New York level . |
| 21 | And so it was that all Hollywood 's difficulties led somewhat accidentally to what Ralph A. Bauer has described as a period whose movies ‘ were perhaps as varied and intriguing ’ as the movies produced in any comparably short period in American history . |
| 22 | The solution was that each Friday before sundown , Olympia & York sold the company that owned the World Financial Centre to a non-Jewish company . |
| 23 | Their general demeanour was like that of elderly clubmen determined that it should be clearly understood that they were men of the world , fully alive to all the tricks of your Tom , Dick and Harry ; yet their actual questions and comments revealed that they had not the remotest notion what sort of a world it was that these East End people they were listening to actually lived in , or how to evaluate their characters and the plausibility of what they said . |
| 24 | The background was that these Asaimara had sent seven old men to the village to discuss a long-standing pasture dispute . |
| 25 | Our argument was that British Telecom and the other operators should be negotiating with the regulator to make sure that the necessary infrastructure commitments are met . |