Example sentences of "[be] [adv] that they [verb] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Brown and Kulik ( 1977 ) were struck by the fact that people were generally able to answer this question without difficulty , the important point being not that they remembered the assassination but that they remembered apparently irrelevant details such as where they were and what they were doing when they heard the news .
2 It is not that they showed no mercy on the streets of Jericho .
3 It is just that they show a very late timing of their sleep/wake rhythm with respect to normal time-cues .
4 It is just that they have no other choice .
5 ‘ Ah , ’ she said , ‘ it 's just that they bow a lot . ’
6 It is not just that there survive undeconstructed residues of , say , Romanticism and modernism , or that the constructed forms echo still within the deconstructed ( although they clearly do survive in these ways ) ; it is also that they exert an influence in and as their newly deconstructed state .
7 Aside from just the physical conditions though , it 's also that they face no end of er very bad practices , often by quite poor landlords , and on some occasions very poor accommodation agencies .
8 The answer is surely that they occupied a very special place in the lives of many young middle-class men and especially in the lives of those of them who were budding artists , writers , or intellectuals , who in short were Bohemians .
9 So where , as in Morgan , defendants claim that they believed the woman was consenting , because her husband ( who was present ) had told them that she enjoyed a struggle , their case is simply that they lacked the fault element required for the crime .
10 I ca n't explain it really , it was just that they got a big massive .
11 You see , it was n't that they had no faith , they had faith we were saying the other week when we were dealing with this , we all have faith it 's what we do with it .
12 It was then that they saw the grenade in his hand .
13 It was then that they heard the long awaited sound , a distant grinding hum like that of an angry wasp .
14 ‘ It was then that they released the Wheel and it came bowling down the hill not more than ten yards from where I was standing .
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