Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [verb] be that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , all I would say is that youca nt really be too critical of players in what is only their second match . |
| 2 | The other vineyards were all wiped out in the phylloxera epidemic of the last century and never replanted ; but lonely though it is on the local wine lists , Irouléguy will do nicely ; I have never got much beyond the stage of dividing wines into nice and nasty when it comes to describing them , so all I shall say is that Irouléguy is nice . |
| 3 | If you say so sir , the only thing I can suggest is that fact that er that the noise the door opener was making and the fact I opened the door very shortly afterwards , he can only assume the door opener worked . |
| 4 | The best I can say is that Boy looked something like , or had something like the feel of , Paul Newman when he 's playing the character christened Chance Wayne in that Tennessee Williams film . |
| 5 | The only problem that I can see is that fact that many books can not be taken home and that many sources can not be photocopied . |
| 6 | What you must remember is that sexuality is as basic a consciousness as information . ’ |
| 7 | But perhaps the moral we should draw is that criticism is not , and can not be , such a discipline ( though literary history is , or may be ) . |
| 8 | In the absence of dose-response studies , the only important point we can make is that transit was accelerated across the ICJ by a dose if ia 5HT that did not induce ileal secretion in vivo . |
| 9 | The conclusion to which we can come is that cannibalism is rare but that , in extremis , it is something to which the human species will resort . |
| 10 | It may have been that while in Japan he found the taste of humble pie just a little too much to stomach . |
| 11 | At that time the Particular Baptists were meeting in a private house and it may have been that fact rather than family disagreements on doctrinal issues which led to her being baptized at Netherfield Independent chapel on 6 August 1817 . |
| 12 | It should have been that thing squared and now we then having worked it out that far , |
| 13 | It must have been that day or the next , Adam thought , that he or one of them , surely he , had first suggested the commune idea . |
| 14 | An uncommonly good lunch it must have been that day . |
| 15 | Others said it must have been that girl who worked here , the one who was the German officer 's mistress , she knew everything that was going on around here . |
| 16 | It might have been that night I dreamed |
| 17 | It might have been that way for a while , Scum argued , but after a couple of weeks the Boroughs shitkickers moved in , and the game was up . |
| 18 | It might have been that thing that er that bloke puts in them . |
| 19 | I suppose some people might have but I think I did n't really want to face up to the fact that he might have been that man on the beach . ’ |
| 20 | Their relationship was civilized and uncomplicated , and she wished it could have been that way too for Vi and Jane . |
| 21 | All he 'd say was that nature meant men and women to be attracted by each other and if they were n't , the species would n't reproduce themselves . ’ |
| 22 | From the outside , a passer-by will gaze up at the window , and all he will see is that lavender light . |