Example sentences of "that [pron] [adv] [verb] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the important thing was that I just wanted to be free . ’ |
| 2 | The things I said may have been unjustified , and the fact that I just happened to be bloody tired and bad-tempered was no excuse . |
| 3 | I think perhaps that I actually needed to be able to think the worst of you , however personally unpalatable that worst was to me , as some sort of a defence , so that I could despise you even if it meant despising myself as well . |
| 4 | The funny thing is that I never expected to be an artist . |
| 5 | ‘ Please take notice that I sometimes need to be the real me ’ , is what she seems to be really saying through the way she 's portrayed herself . ’ |
| 6 | Most writers of whatever kind know what it is to write and to discover in the process that someone else seems to be standing by . |
| 7 | Clarissa pointed out that nobody else seemed to be making a fuss . |
| 8 | Perhaps it was more that she just wanted to be somewhere else . |
| 9 | She was pipped by reluctant newcomer Jane Lester of Basildon Savacentre who was so doubtful of her abilities that she virtually had to be carried up to the oche . |
| 10 | That talent was presumably the main reason for his appointment , and that 's only right and proper because if there 's one thing England can learn from Bob Dwyer , it is that you sometimes have to be prepared to let a young side lose in the short-term to gain in the long-term . |
| 11 | While we are talking about the reassured that we not going to be dealing with the position of . |
| 12 | Perhaps when his desk collapsed through sheer weight of mail he finally will realise that we simply want to be left for 60 minutes an hour in our blinkered little world of leather and willow . |
| 13 | A third dimension that we also need to be aware of is the development of organisational structures over time . |
| 14 | It seems probable that , to our ancestors , there was no clear boundary between fields of endeavour that we now consider to be quite separate — for example , astronomy and religion . |
| 15 | Our relationship does seem to be improving but obviously I 'm worried that we now seem to be paying 50% more than we expected . |
| 16 | How can the Prime Minister be so complacent and so indolent when he is receiving advice that something now needs to be done ? |
| 17 | Whatever the truth of the matter , however , it is enough for present purposes to note that the latest date given in any of the sources is 873/1468 and that there thus appears to be a gap of at least five years between the death of Fahreddin Acemi and the accession of Molla Husrev to the Muftilik . |
| 18 | The difficulty is , is that there also needs to be some work done to evaluate alternatives , because clearly there is widespread concern about outbreak of er , sheep scab , not only in this area but indeed across the country . |
| 19 | When you choose your meeting room , the size has to be such that there always appears to be more interest in the event than the organisers anticipated . |
| 20 | Research rather suggested that there often seemed to be a dual political system of interests , action , and demands at the local level . |
| 21 | One of the most important things about constructive arguments is that they almost have to be step by step . |
| 22 | Women are making such progress in the world of French crime that they sometimes seem to be monopolising the police report headlines . |
| 23 | The parent may either emulate this approach or completely refute it and feel that they never want to be like their parents . |
| 24 | so that they really had to be brought out . |
| 25 | And this is , it is true for some p , it 's true for a lot of people , that they really want to be challenged . |
| 26 | Most power converters are required to provide transformer isolation between input and output , and the isolated version of the Cuk converter has to have energy coupling capacitors on all its windings , so that they then have to be provided as energy coupling devices plus the transformer . |
| 27 | Some people believe that they only need to be turned once more , while others say that they need scrapping . |
| 28 | What people sometimes fail to realise is that standard provisions are fine as a general guide but that they often have to be amended ( or even dropped altogether ) to allow the transaction to make ‘ commercial sense ’ on both sides . |
| 29 | At least the British players demonstrated that they fully deserved to be on the same court — much against many people 's expectations . |
| 30 | But the fact that an error can be explained , even an unavoidable error , does not mean that it thereby ceases to be an error . |