Example sentences of "[be] [adv] that [pers pn] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the present time , as we have described , the problem with daytime sleep is believed to be only that it is too short . |
| 2 | It relatively seldom results in marital breakdown nowadays , even when it is discovered by the partner ; and even the temporary trauma induced by the discovery seems to be less that it was once ( there is no real proof of this , nor in the other direction — I base the comment mainly on people 's expressed attitudes ) . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's been said that I am a much improved player this season ’ , Hamilton says , ‘ but I believe that the difference is merely that I am that much more confident . |
| 4 | One of the reasons for following a routine like this is so that you are less likely to make a mistake . |
| 5 | It is not that they are too slow to avoid being hit , but that they simply do not hear the cars speeding towards them . |
| 6 | It is not that they are less likely to be murdered , raped , robbed , or assaulted — although the best scientific evidence based on victimization surveys shows this to be true ( Hindelang , Gottfredson , and Garofalo 1978 ) — but that in the criminal law , definitions of murder , rape , robbery , assault , theft , and other serious crimes are so constructed as to exclude many similar , and in important respects , identical acts , and these are just the acts likely to be committed more frequently by powerful individuals . |
| 7 | Thirdly there 's the old objection of participatory democracy that it simply takes up too much time and this is not a trivial objection , because the thought is not that it 's simply time-consuming , but because it 's so |
| 8 | The problem for many people today is not that it is too difficult to believe but that it is too easy . |
| 9 | I had a friend — well , I still do , it 's just that we 're temporarily out of touch — called Alison . |
| 10 | It 's not like she 's really kind of dominated your life it 's just that she 's so not stupid , it just , you know , it 's incredible . |
| 11 | It 's just that it 's so dark . |
| 12 | It 's just that I am so evil and perverted and encrusted with slime that it 's rather difficult for me to remember the fact . ’ |
| 13 | It 's just that I 'm all he has . |
| 14 | It 's just that I 'm too involved in what 's happening to play games — at least , to play games with you . |
| 15 | it 's just that I 'm never gon na get to up to . |
| 16 | Yeah , I 've got nice T-shirts , it 's just that I 'm really cold . |
| 17 | It — it 's just that I 'm so nervous . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ It 's just that I 'm so lonely , sir ! ’ said the child . |
| 19 | Erm no not really I , I feel alright , it 's just that I 'm so nasty all the while and |
| 20 | You must think me very silly but it 's just that I 'm so excited ! |
| 21 | ‘ It 's just that you 're so young , ’ Aunt Lilian said gently , over the immeasurable gulf that stretched between her sixty years and mine . |
| 22 | I mean , if it 's just that you 're too close to it and you do n't want me to look at it , there are people I know who 're good at that sort of thing ; they can see the wood from the trees ; they could — ’ |
| 23 | It 's just that you were so keen . |
| 24 | Not as clear as that , it 's not a ris , it 's not that they 're either going to lose the six double O one and half a million , it 's the thing that 's , admit that they might , and it weakens our position . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's not that we 're always this awkward , ’ the lady deputy editor told the waitress amidst the musical chairs , ‘ just that we usually are . ’ |
| 26 | It 's not that you 're deliberately staying away from London by any chance is it ? ’ |
| 27 | No it 's not that I was just getting together to play a bit of recording stuff . |
| 28 | It 's not that I 'm particularly unhappy with the shape of my body or with my image , it 's just that I worry all the time about what people think about me , what impression they are getting . |
| 29 | It 's not that I 'm totally assured that this time round I wo n't be quite so foolish , it 's simply that I know it 's possible to progress to that stage beyond ‘ falling in love ’ — if I do n't opt out as soon as he starts to look less like Prince Charming and more like Mr Very Ordinary and Boring . |
| 30 | I mean , it 's not that she 's probably gon na go after it but I , you know , who knows ! |