Example sentences of "that be [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TEEN sensation Take That are 8–1 favourites to be number one in the Christmas pop charts . |
| 2 | TEEN sensation Take That are 8–1 favourites to be number one in the Christmas pop charts . |
| 3 | Er , associated with that are certain behaviours , typically vomiting , laxative abuse , erm , use of diuretics which are water tablets or excessive exercising . |
| 4 | Now what happens here is that erm normally , you 'll have a , a er an endowment attached which erm has got a sum assured and that sum assured may be about six thousand say , and onto that are added bonuses . |
| 5 | It is a popular story that the Fascists did at least get the trains to run on time , and had that been all things might have turned out for the better , but the Duce also evolved the theory of Italia Irredenta , ‘ Unrecovered Italy ’ . |
| 6 | Or should that be double chins ? |
| 7 | ‘ Sir , would that be three eggs or four ? ’ |
| 8 | They come to the recognition that being black places themselves and other black kids in a similarly disadvantaged position : ‘ It would seem , on the basis of the pupils ’ own perception of this tendency , that this withdrawal into racially exclusive peer groups results from the pupils ' realization of a common identity and shared destiny' ( 1978 , p.64 ) . |
| 9 | No-one can deny that being pretty helps — no female on breakfast television would have a career otherwise — but I can not believe that we are turning back to the dark days when it was deemed the most important thing of all . |
| 10 | In sociology , for example , we are most explicit about those procedures which we ourselves have invented or developed , that is quantitative procedures . |
| 11 | Now , you , you 're , that 's a subjective feeling , you do n't actually know that there are neurones in your blood sugar level , but you , you certainly know when you need something to eat and it , it 's a kind of subjective feeling and it 's not farfetched in the least to claim that our genes have rigged our brain in that way to do that because obviously we 'd like to have more reproductive success if you know when you 're hungry than when you do n't and it may be that a lot of , in a lot of other ways genes affect our , our behaviour through similar erm effects , that is subjective feelings we have , often of an emotional nature to make us want to do certain things and an an and dislike doing others , and it may be that we , we 're really kind of lumbered with that . |
| 12 | The result of that is crumbling foundations . |
| 13 | The onset time of recurrent symptoms could be identified by five patients , — that is 4 months , 15 , 17 , 19 , and 19 years after fundoplication . |
| 14 | Now it was a rule and the custom at the time that any of the staff could impose a fine on the spot and in this circumstance Fagan imposed a fine of 10 " ackers " — that is 10 piastres , which I can not remember what the value was at the time , but let us say it was something in the order of 5 . |
| 15 | That is 10 millirems for each person in the world or an extra 5000 to 50000 deaths . |
| 16 | ‘ That is real politeness , then , to stay for two and a half hours , in an old woman 's bedroom , listening and asking questions . |
| 17 | Research with split-brain patients ( Levy and Trevarthen , 1976 ) , supported by results from normal subjects ( Landis , Assal and Perret , 1979 ) , suggests that the left hemisphere matches stimuli on a conceptual basis ( for example , a picture of a knife and fork " goes with " a picture of food ) while the right hemisphere matches on a structural basis ( that is two pictures which look physically similar will be matched ) . |
| 18 | Hewlett-Packard and IBM are both very interested in the microkernel planned by the Software Foundation , but that is two years away , which suggests that if applications developers do not start converting their applications to run under OSF/1 soon , for commercial reasons , all the sponsors currently at the V.3.2 level look likely to decide to wait for the microkernel and then implement their existing environments over it . |
| 19 | Though we were pleased to see you , we would have been doubly pleased if you had entered on time , that is two weeks in advance . |
| 20 | That is many times smaller than crystals of conventional ferric oxide , and about one ten-thousandth the diameter of a human hair . |
| 21 | That is many times more than any Western vendor . |
| 22 | There is a tendency for members of each stratum to develop their own ‘ subculture ’ , that is certain norms , attitudes and values which are distinctive to them as a social group . |
| 23 | You do n't you do n't ever need to know that that is pronounced times . |
| 24 | Indeed the Court of Appeal in Phekoo expressed the opinion that it only applied to rape but I hope that one might interpret that to mean ‘ rape-like offences ’ , that is all offences where the mistake in question relates to a circumstance qualified by mens rea . |
| 25 | ‘ During the twelve-hour day the two of us aimed to do thirty-six shoes , that is nine horses . |
| 26 | it is the job of the painter to make visible generalised and universal truths , feelings and ideas by the most potent means known to him ; that is individual perceptions though an individual language . |
| 27 | I think we have to remind ourselves that that is thirteen years old and that circumstances have changed . |
| 28 | And that is nice bits of skin on there for you son . |
| 29 | That is 17 elephants — and I take mine back . ’ |
| 30 | Labour is pledged to freeze carbon dioxide emissions at 1990 levels by the year 2000 ; that is five years ahead of the Government 's pledge . |