Example sentences of "[adj] be that [pers pn] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm one of the problems fish have on this is that they lay their eggs in gravel or something like that and where males have their own nest sometimes another male comes along and er takes it over , hijacks it piracy and interestingly enough what happens in those situations a pirate male will come in , displace the existing male from his nest and fertilize a few eggs and then buzz off . |
| 2 | The most obvious is that he felt it himself : to him his fictions were what the Silmarils were to Fëanor or their ships to the Teleri , ‘ the work of our hearts , whose like we shall not make again' . |
| 3 | As for the former chairman himself the greatest pity of all is that he found it necessary to go without finding a successor for himself . |
| 4 | The upshot of it all was that they wanted me to ask Derek would he come in for a sperm count . |
| 5 | The first is that I felt my battle to be with authority , whether in the form of teachers , matrons , parents , or even nature itself . |
| 6 | The first was that he said he wanted an interval before he ‘ took on ’ Shakespeare again . |
| 7 | What made things particularly difficult was that I felt I was n't Black enough for my Black colleagues and that white workers picking up on the division used this to their advantage by divide-and-rule tactics . |
| 8 | What is certain is that he made his way there , ignoring all warning from mortal and immortal alike . |
| 9 | Er at the last conference er both Kerry and myself buttonholed him er and proposed that we er push it a bit further and er the re upshot of that was that we wrote him a much more detailed letter er on whatever date it was , er first of November ninety three , and we 've now had a er a reply er to that er giving us carte blanche to quote him er w with er a number of er quotations which we 'd drafted and put into his mouth , so er a all the quotations that we 've asked him to approve we can use . |