Example sentences of "[noun sg] be that [pers pn] [verb] [pers pn] " 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 | My recommendation is that we scrap them for the ten year decade of evangelism as a trial period and then think again in AD 2000 ! |
| 3 | ‘ The greatest irony is that I thought he could help me in my research on rape , ’ she says . |
| 4 | I mean I one of the things that I 've always sort of had in mind is that we put it down in the reception area . |
| 5 | and the biggest tragedy is that I know you know what you want to say |
| 6 | The appeal of this closely-worked new study is that it presents him as a comprehensive human being . |
| 7 | But of course profit 's one thing , and income 's another thing , and I think the problem with most er forms of income type investment is that we spend it , it 's not a problem it 's just , it just happens . |
| 8 | ‘ When I told him , his reply was that he thought I had liked going there , and he burst out with , ‘ Thank goodness you told me . |
| 9 | Why else should I still be yearning after a man whom I knew to be a murderer while shrinking from the innocent Syl whose only crime was that I found him unattractive ? |
| 10 | I think the idea is that Sun is that they see it as somebody 's gone poof poof want to be to write quickly and they would argue that a Sun reader has a sharp attention span . |
| 11 | And at each instant of its happening , its bitter-sweet wonder is that you know it ca n't last . |
| 12 | Erm , my proposal is that you keep them separately . |
| 13 | I mean , maybe what I 'm hearing from the committee is that we take it back and look at the criteria and the ground rules . |
| 14 | What is the issue is that you expected me to stay and I did n't . |
| 15 | Having learnt to cope happily on our own , the likelihood is that we find we are not alone after all . |
| 16 | Her biggest regret was that she found it necessary to keep its existence from David . |
| 17 | I think that the real reason that I wanted to do Total recall was that I knew it might make me famous which then might help me get better parts . |
| 18 | The other factor against a return was that I reckoned it only a matter of time before they stopped being DINKS ( double income , no kids ) and became WHANnies ( ‘ We have a Nanny ’ ) . |
| 19 | And I fancy that erm a large part of his animus against latterday Oxford philosophy was that he suspected it of covert idealism , erm a preoccupation simply with the knowing mind , insufficient attention to the facts of the world as presented by science . |
| 20 | The huge advantage of fame is that it gives me , for no proper reason , access to people that I would never otherwise have . |
| 21 | Another extremely useful feature of the Professional package is that it allows you to rotate a garment piece through any angle . |
| 22 | The value of counselling is that it allows you to state your points of view to each other , before a trained and unbiased third party who can help you to resolve the issues that bother you . |
| 23 | The danger is that they stop you looking . |
| 24 | If an owner dwelt in the township where his land was situated the logical inference is that he occupied it himself , although there was nothing to prevent him letting off part or all of it : the Langley Marish man Richard Collis features as ‘ tenaunt to ye Queene , in landes the yerely rente , vs ’ . |
| 25 | The basic premise is that they think they know better than anyone else . |
| 26 | ‘ The truth is that she envies me , ’ she went on more calmly . |
| 27 | Sophie smiled at her godmother , then , turning to Joanna , she said , ‘ The point is that I feel you 're disappointed . |
| 28 | The point is that you muddle her , you muddle her up . |
| 29 | The buzzword among those who follow the routine is that it gives you ‘ energy for life . ’ |
| 30 | The very reason she had applied to the shipping company for a job was that she felt she needed a complete break , a change of scene . |