Example sentences of "[be] that [pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She heard the impatience in his tone and went on even more firmly , ‘ It would simply be that it fits in with my long-term plan , which is to get a wide range of experience before going on an extended working holiday overseas . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ The second is that we step out to the supermarket and pick up some supplies . ’ |
| 3 | The danger is that we look back to that and think of that . |
| 4 | The only problem is that they slide about on a highly polished surface , so buy some rubberised netting to use as a backing from a carpet shop . |
| 5 | One theory children produce about the origin of babies is that they come out of the bowel . |
| 6 | One claim guaranteed to draw fire from Kylie is that she missed out on a childhood because of showbiz . |
| 7 | It 's a testament to how captivating The Orb 's music is that I got off on this so much , completely alone and without recourse to anything stronger than the Institute 's lukewarm lager . |
| 8 | okay , round the base of your thumb , basically what we want to do is we want to clamp these fingers in so they ca n't come un unstuck , we want to push them together because she ca n't keep them shut like that , but the next thing is that you come round to the back where the little finger is , the next time you come round here , you 're gon na come round to about the first thumb joint okay and then you 're gon na go over the top okay and if you come round again the little thumb , by , by the little finger , you come round again to the thumb joint okay , come over the top again , round , we 're just making really like the figure of eight , but all the time we 're keeping off of this wrist here and I 'm keeping her fingers in , are you alright still ? |
| 9 | ‘ The trouble with using a Hasselblad is that you black out after each shot , and in the first session I 'd cut off the arms in one or two shots , so I had to go back and re-shoot those . |
| 10 | Erm how do people sort of beco when you become a member of a group , usually in some way the group changes you as you go through different stages of it , your values may change as a result of interacting with people in the group and th this process of erm somebody 's come up with how it is that you start off in a group , how it is that you become an active member of a group , how it is you may even become involved in the maintenance of the group and the leadership of it and then you sort of die away and that 's the y'know retire from the group . |
| 11 | The problem is that it gets out of hand . |
| 12 | At £34.96 , the beauty of the Garden Buggy is that it folds down to only 10in thick and will easily fit into the boot of a car . |
| 13 | there 's no , there 's no need to sort of rush at the , I think we wait and see what they 're going to offer us in er whenever it is that it comes up for renewal . |
| 14 | What is clear is that it evolved out of the neolithic Cretan religion and that the religion of the classical Greeks at least in part grew out of it . |
| 15 | The whole point about chaos is that it roars down on you when you least expect it , like a motorcycle messenger . |
| 16 | The general legend is that he took off from Twinwood 's airfield , flew over the channel and was lost over the channel ; his plane iced up . |
| 17 | He says all they know is that he fell out of a window at a party . |
| 18 | ‘ In those days it was a pound made , a pound spent , ’ says Philip , whose proud boast is that he started off without any outside financial backing . |
| 19 | Kingsley Amis , who wrote an adventure for Bond as well as creating Jim Dixon , reflects aptly on the reasons for his : ‘ What happened was that we came in at the tail end of the literary tradition to the effect that no decent girl enjoys sex — only tarts were supposed to do that . |
| 20 | The overt thing was that we came in from outside , but I think the hidden thing was that we were women . |
| 21 | To Marquand , MacDonald 's real fault was that he held on to his nineteenth-century principles for too long . |