Example sentences of "[be] that [pers pn] [verb] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other advantages of a freezer are that it enables you to store food that can be brought out in an emergency when you have unexpected guests , or to store certain foods in bulk , such as bread , to save you from frequent trips to the shops . |
| 2 | Once you 've made your call , they might ask you to stay by the phone erm , to contact you back it might be that they ask you did you want anybody contacted to tell them that , that you 've broken down , they will do that for you . |
| 3 | And I wonder if it seems to be that they prefer you come out of the upper drawer than come up with your brilliant A levels or whatever . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 5 | No well we might well it might be that we say we want a combined party , I do n't know , |
| 6 | It could be that he felt I represented authority or the establishment in some way , or perhaps I was just convenient |
| 7 | ‘ So the thing that I would say , if I had to give myself a brownie point , would be that I enabled her to see that she could work actively with the situation . |
| 8 | Now the part they play in the community depending on your political statistical or whatever leisure interest viewpoint may be that you think they have n't got the combination right but that 's obviously a very subjective thing , but I think that I mean the visibility and the social responsibility implements I would have thought are two of the most important for people . |
| 9 | Rather than enticing your man , its real value may be that it makes you feel sexier and therefore more likely to initiate or respond to his overtures . |
| 10 | And the reason for that is that we ask you to do three things when you get in front of the advertiser having got his commitment . |
| 11 | ‘ The only problem is that they taught me to swear like a trooper . ’ |
| 12 | The importance of these is that they make you think and help you recognise what it is that ‘ makes you tick ’ . |
| 13 | The danger is that they stop you looking . |
| 14 | The thing is Danny is that they said they 'd only bought the thing in July . |
| 15 | Perhaps the reason for the comic success of such characters is that they help us to recognise the prejudice which exists in all of us at so many different levels about so many different things . |
| 16 | The value of concepts and cognitive structures is that they enable us to classify events and to make judgments and ( unlike repertoires of behaviours and lists of facts ) enable us to solve new problems . |
| 17 | The reason for the excitement in using lasers is that they enable us to study unstable nuclei , which was not previously possible . |
| 18 | The other aspect of theories is that they enable us to make generalizations . |
| 19 | And if some of the material in the book seems occasionally to verge on the utopian , it is worth reminding ourselves that , as Jan Montefiore says in Feminism and Poetry , ‘ the value of utopias is that they enable us to imagine possibilities of difference for the brute contingent world ’ . |
| 20 | The basic premise is that they think they know better than anyone else . |
| 21 | An example I can cite is that I asked her to research and write up ( unsupervised ) an application to the Carnegie-Mellon Foundation for the microfilming of our 100,000 items in the Archive Collection . |
| 22 | No excuses , as I 've said , and the only explanation I can offer is that I thought you loved Jones . |
| 23 | But what it is that I measure I do not know . |
| 24 | Although there was not much probability in my case , the answer is that I wish I had . |
| 25 | What annoys me is that I know I saw the damn thing not too long ago ! |
| 26 | and the biggest tragedy is that I know you know what you want to say |
| 27 | What I will say , though , is that I think we killed off Kilmarnock 's challenge at the week-end and , if we do n't go up now , we should be put up against a wall and shot . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ All I 'm saying is that I think we need to be apart for a while , come down to earth , if you like . |
| 29 | If you think of a famous building that you associate with London okay we are doing life in the city , we all live in London okay , think in your mind of a famous building for example Saint Paul 's , what I want you to do , and we 'll go round the class , is that I want you to describe yourself |
| 30 | ‘ What I mean to say , ’ replied Robert , ‘ is that I feel I need to know where I stand . ’ |