Example sentences of "that [be] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Did did you recognise at that were you in court yesterday ?
2 That is one for every minute of every day .
3 Britain has only 3,000 bottle banks , that is one for every 17,000 people , compared to Holland , for example , which has one per 1,400 people .
4 If you choose this type of holiday a good starting point is to decide on a city that fascinates you and which you have always wanted to visit and book a package trip ( that is one in which travel , hotel , and meals are included , with some guided tours ) .
5 EVERY year 30,000 single men marry divorced women — that is one in 11 marriages .
6 That is plenty of time because the prison is only ten kilometres from here .
7 That is something for which I no longer have the slightest desire , ’ he assured her .
8 That is something of what haunts me .
9 ‘ I think marriage can be a very good basis for developing your own personality , provided you feel that is something of value to do and not just selfish .
10 The second was that the son ‘ could be expected to have some influence over his elderly parents , and that is something of which the plaintiffs … should have been aware . ’
11 That is something of which the Government are enormously proud .
12 That is something of which we ought to be extremely wary .
13 At least that is something to be thankful for , something I shall not have to explain a tenth or fifteenth or hundredth time , one worry off my mind .
14 It sounds fantastic to say that one can be enamoured of a season , but that is something like what happened : and , as before , the experience was one of intense desire .
15 That is something like twenty five twenty seven hectares .
16 Individual properties have sometimes been made somehow dependent on general properties by these philosophers , but that is nothing to the point .
17 But if you are shocked by Margi on the television , that is nothing to the uncensored version you get on stage .
18 That is nothing like the invasion of a new social class into British letters in general or into fiction in particular .
19 That is it for six knuckle-biting weeks .
20 That is it for this week , so er hope you enjoyed it , join us next Friday for another er burning hot series of debates er another three ring circus , it 's called A Central Weekend .
21 Beaumont said : ‘ I have thought about running him again but have decided that is it for now .
22 That is it from me .
23 That is you with all your qualities , sensitivities and weaknesses ; you with all your experience of growing up , living and growing older ; you with all your joys and aspirations , as well as ( like us all ) your strong sense of individual identity and pride .
24 That is none of the business of either the Church or State .
25 ‘ Katherine , I could say to you , that is none of your business .
26 ‘ Mr Hunter , that is none of your business . ’
27 That is none of your business , ’ he replied testily .
28 The nuts themselves are not nuts at all but seeds , arranged rather like the segments of an orange in a whole fruit ( properly a capsule ) that is itself about the size of an orange .
29 That 's nothing for them to smile about , ’ I said , quite shocked at their callousness .
30 That 's nothing on how good they could be , given half a chance .
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