Example sentences of "that it be [adj] " in BNC.

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1 But to say the truth , madam , let a man love reading never so well , when once he comes to know this tawn , he finds so many better ways of passing the four-and-twenty hours , that 't were ten thousand pities he should consume his time in that .
2 I have my doubts erm in , in that erm certainly not within one nation erm I , I agree with you entirely that it 's contradictory to Marxism in that erm what happened in erm with Mao was that erm he turned away from any internationalist socialist concept .
3 That it 's expensive ; it 's as expensive as you want to make it .
4 Independent advice er comes from major brokers , the banks and building societies have come out of independent advice pretty well , because they 've decided that it 's expensive and a hassle , cos we 're regulated all the time and of course it makes , we 've , we 've got to analyze the products on the market , so we 've got to pay people to do that .
5 They do n't just prove that it 's dangerous to fly , ski , skateboard or dress up as a Mutant Hero Ninja Turtle and try to act tough on the Northern Line late on a Saturday night .
6 Many people who have not been sailing before , many parents are worried about their youngsters , think that it 's dangerous and whatever and we have all this information , we have all these checks , we have a wonderful education scheme er within our own organization in this country and we should go out and sell that and I think we , a lot of it 's going on already and I do n't decry that and we need to just market that a little better to get more youngsters on the water because once we get more youngsters on the water the pyramid gets wider , the building gets higher , so that 's an important issue
7 Whenever there is a puzzling development in physics which seems for a while to put in question our basic understanding , you will hear someone say " I have the feeling that it 's 1925 all over again . "
8 lost something and I ca n't , I ca n't find it and I 'm looking and I 'm , and ee , and er , a bit of a noise or anything I 'm looking backwards is coming and then I realize he 's not there any more to come and then other days I just feel like I 'm dangling in the air and can see the , the ground and I ca n't touch it with my feet , just somewhere right , right out , it 's not real , not real you know and then you go , you get back to with a bump and know that it 's real and then it just feels left , nothing else , you ca n't help yourself in any other way .
9 But the USAF said that it 's standard practice .
10 He says that it 's terrible that Britain is importing foreign coal .
11 I mean , normally I just keep going , you know , and sort of do n't , but I 've been so aching so much that it 's terrible !
12 I rather suspect that it 's inherent in the very human situation that it 's impossible to give a final and satisfactory account of the relation between the individuality of the individual 's experience and the world .
13 I would say it 's gone up 100 per cent , where before there was a logical argument to say that it 's negligible , that argument no longer exists ; it is not negligible , it is there , it is upon us now , and it is likely to er lead to considerable er hazard for our civilian population and civilian populations of all NATO countries if we do not address it .
14 You make everything sound rosy , then you say that it 's awful .
15 Nice to see that it 's 13 without defeat in the league — the longest streak I can remember .
16 Not that it 's boring , just depressing .
17 And unless the city knows that it 's hopeless , they might simply pick up the whole war again .
18 At least that way I shall feel more confident that it 's Labour Party members and supporters who are selecting candidates and electing the leader and deputy leader of the Labour Party and not a Liberal or Tory trade unionist who happens to be paying the political levy .
19 This is one of the problems under which the law labours , because of course , if we did n't accept that it 's individual guilt that counts , and we looked to group guilt , then that in itself is an infringement of civil liberties and human rights , you are being judged not according to your acts but according to the acts of others erm with whom you happened to associate , even though your conduct may not in itself be reprehensible .
20 ‘ That form of music definitely works best when it is kept simple , which does n't , of course , mean that it 's easy to do ; being inventive within a restricted format is one of the hardest things to do .
21 What The Mock Turtles do is so embarrassingly simple that it 's easy to trip yourself up describing it — they make pop records , in the same way that The Beatles , The Byrds , The Kinds and Syd 's Pink Floyd made pop records ; with the guitars well upstage and choruses forged in heaven .
22 The master of shock frock Fashion Editor tactics is Gianni Versace , whose bondage dresses have set supermodels like Cindy Crawford on fire — and are so distinctive that it 's easy for the High Street to copy , so that cage-style dresses are now everywhere .
23 ‘ Handiman made everyone think about the handicapped person in their family that it 's easy to deny , ’ says Damon , who may have found the character 's roots in his own childhood club foot .
24 They say that it 's easy to denigrate but when you hate as much as JOHN BITUMEN the problem is one of selection .
25 ‘ If I may speak in a spirit of complaint , David , I might point out that it 's easy for you to talk and even easier to talk tough .
26 The Ober Gabelhorn-Wellenkuppe traverse , the most frequented route up the mountain , is a very traditional climb , the kind of route that it 's easy to imagine Victorians accompanied by their Swiss guides tackling : balancing along the snow arête , confronting the Grand Gendarme and cutting steps up the steep summit ridge .
27 ‘ Except that it 's easy to be indifferent to money when you 've never been short of it . ’
28 The unbelievable thing is that it 's easy .
29 It may not seem as hard nowadays , because people know that it 's easy to get out of .
30 All types of sailing boats as well , I know that it 's easy to think of that we 're only dealing in optimists and toppers er but all types of sailing boats and all abilities , both disabled , youngsters and all types of organizations .
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