Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [that] [pers pn] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are led to the conclusion that 11a is grammatically but not semantically deviant by the fact that substitutes for bake which normalise the sentence ( e.g. shake , forsake ) , as a class , have no distinctive semantic attributes ( that is to say , members of the class share no characteristic patterns of co-occurrence with other open set elements that differentiate them from non-members ) ; however , they do share a grammatical peculiarity , which is that they form their past participles with — en . |
| 2 | ‘ Alcohol did me the greatest favour , which is that it brought me down to earth . |
| 3 | Some of the girls had been looking forward to this as to the highlight of the trip , but Clara had been dreading it , and for a classic reason , which was that she had nothing nice to wear . |
| 4 | So deep in thought had she been that she reached her destination before she 'd made any definite plans about how to proceed . |
| 5 | All Lori will tell you is that she knows nothing about the jade , ’ Paige advised him steadily . |
| 6 | And then after a brief explanation , ‘ The only reason I write to you is that you warned me this would happen . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ The main reason that I am contacting you is that I thought you might be interested to know that John ( stage name Joan Rawson ) was awarded the Eric Rowley Trophy for the artist who has done the most for charity over the last 12 months . |
| 8 | ‘ The issue for you was that you thought I was after his money . |
| 9 | I 'm ready to believe yowl admit of their recommendations all I presume to say of him is that he writes me he shall be really dilligent and the enclosed specimens he has grown which I hope yowl puruse make it look as if he would prove so . |
| 10 | Only information I gathered from him is that he abandoned his yacht because he thought his spare fuel tank was going to blow up . |
| 11 | The best thing about him is that I like him . |
| 12 | ‘ Might it be , I 'm only hazarding a guess , you realize that , but might it be that they want you to get them out here again ? ’ |
| 13 | Can it be that you condone his actions ? |
| 14 | It 's not so much that , it 's that I prefer my cooking to your cooking . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's that I think you 're gay ! |
| 16 | It 's not the buying them that 's cunning , it 's just that I ca n't help being grateful ( I did n't actually say I was grateful , but I was n't sharp ) , it 's that he presents them so humbly , with such an air of please-don't-thank-me and I-deserve-it-all . |
| 17 | It is so very much what it is that it becomes something else . |
| 18 | So I would dearly like to know why it is that you find yourself so enthusiastic … ’ |
| 19 | when you 're clear about what it is that you want you can be assertive |
| 20 | You 're not sure of of where it is that you feel you might . |
| 21 | But what it is that I measure I do not know . |
| 22 | But I was in a foul temper , and Rebecca had n't made it any easier by going on about missing papers , and how urgent it was that we had them back . ’ |
| 23 | Not much else is needed to prompt a visit than a map and some route descriptions , so thus it was that we found ourselves between the Vénéon and the Etançons on the campsite at La Bérade in August . |
| 24 | It was that I think which was fundamentally transformed by my involvement with the gay movement . |
| 25 | ‘ One good thing to come out of it was that it inspired me to play guitar and turned me into the person I am . ’ |
| 26 | perhaps , he thought as he followed Maisie down the front path , it was that he knew them only as fathers , as people whose primary function was to stand at the edge of swimming pools , dank gymnasia or football fields , their collective manhoods bruised by nurture , blurring with age and helpless love . |
| 27 | I do n't know whether it was that he wanted me to see my ‘ virtue ’ triumph over his ‘ vice ’ , or something subtler , that sometimes losing is winning . |
| 28 | And so it was that he gained his passport to that respectability which lay so easily on his shoulders by the time his picture was painted : he would be apprenticed . |
| 29 | I have been thinking about my nearly twenty years friendship with him and especially what it was that he gave me in terms of belief and understanding of the job . |
| 30 | For Friend I would — if I only knew what it was that he wants me to do or be . |